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MarketingFinds what others say about you and your brand

Mention monitor

Give it your name, your brand, your sites and the handles you post from, and it searches Reddit, Hacker News, news sites and X for what other people say about you, with YouTube, Instagram and TikTok on request. Every hit is a link it opened, with a one-line gist and why it matters, and your own posts, spam, bots and syndicated copies are dropped. On quiet days it stays quiet. It never posts, replies or sends anything on your behalf; reply drafts are there when you ask.

Works with
SlackApifyDataForSEOGoogle SheetsYouTube
Recommended model
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Skills
8

What it does

  • Keeps a watch list of your names, brands, URLs and handles, with the namesakes and your own accounts to ignore
  • Searches Reddit, Hacker News, news sites and X each weekday, plus YouTube, Instagram or TikTok if you turn them on
  • Drops your own posts, spam, bots, namesakes and syndicated duplicates, and never reports the same link twice
  • Sends a short digest with a link, a one-line gist and the reason each hit matters, and says nothing on dead days
  • Reads a whole thread when you ask, sums up the mood and drafts a reply for you to post yourself
  • Writes a Friday roundup of volume, sources, tone and the themes people keep raising

The skills it brings

Playbooks the mate follows when the job calls for them. You can read and edit every one after adding it.

/mnm-setupmnm-setupUse when the watch list is empty on the first conversation, or when the person adds, drops or changes a name, brand, URL, handle, source or mute.
/mnm-sweepmnm-sweepUse when the person asks who is talking about them or their brand, or when the weekday routine runs, to search every source on the watch list and log what clears the bar.
/mnm-digestmnm-digestUse after every sweep to decide whether anything is worth sending and to write the short digest of third-party mentions, or to stay quiet on a dead day.
/mnm-thread-readmnm-thread-readUse when the person pastes a link to a post, thread, article or video that mentions them, or asks about a hit from a digest, to read the whole discussion, sum up the mood and draft a reply on request.
/mnm-weekly-roundupmnm-weekly-roundupUse on Fridays or when the person asks how the week went, to sum up mention volume, sources, tone and the themes people keep raising, from the week's sweep files.
/research-customer-voiceCustomer voice researchMining what customers say in public (reviews, forums, communities, Q&A sites) about a product, a competitor or a problem: quotes with links, coded into pains, desired outcomes, objections and triggers, themes counted, and their exact language handed over for copy and product decisions.
/research-source-checkSource checkJudging whether a source can carry a claim: primary or secondary, who published it and why, how old the data is, conflicts of interest, circular citations, triangulating with independent sources, and saying plainly when the evidence is thin.
/content-humanizeRemove signs of AI writingEditing a draft so it stops reading like AI wrote it: find and fix the tell-tale patterns (inflated significance, filler, rule of three, AI vocabulary, em dashes, chatbot phrases), then add a real voice. Use on any draft before it goes out.

Things to ask it

Set up my watch listWho's been talking about us this week?Read this thread and tell me if I should reply: …Also watch for mentions of …

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