+90 users in 7 days - Just Craft Your Posts like LEGO
Hi IH!
Happy to share a new feature I'm proud of - a LEGO builder for winning Reddit posts.
To create a post that tells the story of your product: select which community you're writing for, the main problem you want to highlight, how spammy you want to be, and some rough facts/numbers so your story is grounded in a fresh data / event / update.
Right now Achiv addresses the three ways Reddit posts fail. It stops you from posting where the audience isn't. It stops you from writing the wrong shape of post for the community. And it stops you from hitting submit on something that breaks a rule you didn't know existed. The result isn't guaranteed viral posts, but posts that consistently get read, commented on, and acted on by the people you actually want to reach.
I've been posting with Achiv for 7 days (since May 13). Here are the GA4 + GSC stats only:
In total, Achiv almost passed 200 users! +89 users per these 7 days.
The reasonable question is how much posts per day I did?
I think about one idea, write a draft manually, throwing into Achiv and adapting for many different communities. Usually 2-3 actual submissions per day.
Try Achiv: https://achiv.com
This is really interesting.
Does Achiv also help reduce the chances of getting shadowbanned or filtered by Reddit’s spam systems? That’s something I’ve struggled with a lot while learning Reddit distribution.
Of course. The chrome plugin also includes a one-click rule checker,so you never guess.
I posted promo posts where self-promoting is strictly forbidden. I think it's a best proof.
You can read the post with this experiment here on IH.
That’s solid progress for early traction
Curious — what do you think drove most of those users? Was it distribution or how the product itself was positioned?
I’ve been experimenting with getting initial users and realizing distribution is way harder than building
The LEGO framing clicks because it forces the decision most Reddit failures skip - figuring out what the community actually wants to read before you write a word. I've been building Money Me (a personal finance planning app) and r/personalfinance is exactly the kind of sub where the culture gap bites hard if you come in with the wrong shape. m1tisch's comment about getting banned on day one made me wince in recognition. Did you find any personal finance adjacent subs that are more open to builders sharing what they're working on? That niche feels like it should have a home somewhere but I haven't found the right room yet.
The "1:8 flagged as AI" rate is interesting — what does the failure mode look like on that 1/8? Specific phrasing patterns, structural shape (too-clean bullet count, perfect three-act arc), or a moderator pattern-detecting across your account history?
My guess is structure outs people before vocabulary does — the cleanest shape is the biggest AI-tell, more often than any specific word. Curious whether Achiv's AI Review step catches that, or whether it's mostly scoring drafts against the community's top-post patterns.
More like fluent English feels something but can't prove.
Achiv filters deterministically all mdashes, American punctuation... Claude writes according to brand voice.
fair — fluent english as a heuristic is the right frame. recruiters do the same thing: they feel something off and can't always point to the word.
where the deterministic layer wins is the obvious stuff — em-dashes, american-vs-british punctuation, banned-phrase lists. catches maybe 60% of cases.
the harder 40% is structural — three-adjective stacks, sentence-shape patterns, opening clauses like "i am writing to express." those aren't dictionary-matchable but they're the strongest tells. different layer.
both together is the real fix. checking out achiv.
@fadeone_x, the "select community, highlight problem, ground in
fresh data" flow is genuinely useful — most Reddit-marketing
advice is vibes ("be authentic!") not actionable steps. A tool
that forces structure is the right shape.
Two questions about the data behind +90 users:
1. How many of those 200 users converted to your activation
event (signup / install / payment)? Reddit visits are usually
high-bounce — the spike on your GA4 chart is beautiful but the
conversion rate below it is what really matters.
2. Did Reddit ever flag the posts as self-promo even with the
structured framework? You're effectively automating "perfect
post-shape", which mods sometimes pattern-detect across an
account.
Bookmarking for after my own beta ships — I'm in week 6 of "do
not post links on Reddit yet" karma jail, so I won't be testing
this for another month.
Achiv helps to post you a genuine contributional posts that are relevant to your product, but not mentioning it absolutely. So you can engage people and mention your product when someone asks to do so in comments.
This is exactly what I needed to see today. Just got permanently banned from r/personalfinance on my first day trying Reddit — went too hard too fast with a new account.
The LEGO framing makes sense. I was thinking about Reddit as a distribution channel rather than a storytelling one. Different mindset entirely.
Question for you: how did you handle the new account karma problem? Did you build history in other subreddits first or go straight into your target communities?
Building Yesterday, an AI financial coach — week one, still looking for first stranger conversion.
Yeap I'm in the same boat, got banned because of a tiny tiny detail I didn't pay attention of. Navigating subreddits is a nightmare...
Wow, looks nice, why it is free?
It's just limited for free, so you can try without any commitments.
Smart distribution mechanic. Founders who can match content shape to community culture have always won on Reddit, and the LEGO framing makes that mental model concrete. The tension worth naming early: communities can sniff format-led posting once a pattern repeats across enough subs, so the half-life on any specific shape is shorter than founders expect. Two questions: what does your week-2 retention curve look like on the user side, and have you seen any subs where your posts start to underperform after a few cycles? That data is the moat. Solid traction in seven days.
honest question: how are you thinking about the ceiling here. Reddit is actively hostile to AI-generated content in a lot of subs and the mods are getting better at detecting it. your posts are working now but the tool's success depends on staying ahead of that. is the plan to make the output less detectable over time or to focus on subreddits where authenticity standards are lower? feels like that tension is the whole long-term product question"
No, it's not a long-term question. Claude Opus is very good in writing with a right instructions. I'm getting comments about "it's AI" ~1:8 posts.
Year later people will either claim everyone is AI or just accept the reality.
The LEGO analogy actually makes sense here — most Reddit
failures aren't about the idea, they're about posting the
wrong format to the wrong community.
Quick question: how does Achiv handle subreddits that have
very different cultures even within the same niche?
For example r/personalfinance vs r/financialindependence
feel completely different even though they overlap a lot.