Intent.team
Surface high-intent posts on X and convert them into leads
I come from a crypto background where there’s a strong “raid” culture around shilling coins in replies and threads. I’ve always hated this dynamic. Even though I like the idea of neutral, permissionless infrastructure that crypto enables I won't deny that crypto can be very short term oriented and does also contain a fair amount of out and out scams. The shilling and raiding to me plays into these worst aspectsof the space and when I see a coin spammed it acutally makes me less curious about it or inclined to buy instead of more.
That being said while I hate rading when I started my most recent project Voltcore: The World (sort of an agentic world and economy sim that runs on crypto rails) I still had to solve distribution. I wanted to talk about our product in threads where people might genuinely be interested in the project itself and saw no value in mindlessly spamming $VOLTCORE in random replies. (Plus obviously didn't want to risk being labeled a spam account and have my reach nuked).
The problem is that simple X searches mostly surface noise especially on crypto twitter. Posts like “shill me the next 100x coin” look like opportunities at first glance but they’re usually pure engagement farms. No one is reading. No one is actually evaluating anything espeically the underlying project behind the coin.
I could guess at keywords and try different searches but it was slow and inconsistent. I was probably missing smaller accounts that actually had real intent.
I didn’t want to spend hours monitoring search. I wanted something running in the background while I focused on building.
That’s where Intent.team came from. It collaborates with me on lead ideas, generates and iterates on search queries, runs continuously, and notifies me when something genuinely promising shows up. I still reply myself and try to keep the engagement authentic but it solves the problem of finding these targets to begin with. The goal isn’t to spam. It’s to surface real intent and make it easier for me to engage when there is someone out there who actually might be interested in what we're building.
Still early, but it already feels better than manually refreshing search and hoping I don’t miss something important. (Also 100% free for now if anyone else wants to try it out)
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Interesting angle! Solving distribution without turning into spam is a real tension in crypto.
From a security and trust perspective, one thing to think about:
• If the app runs continuous searches and surfaces “high intent” posts, how are you preventing automated misuse? For example, rate limiting, anti-spam safeguards, or preventing people from turning it into a scaled reply bot?
• Are you using official X APIs with proper scopes and token handling, or scraping? If users connect accounts, how are you protecting OAuth tokens and limiting permissions?
Since the whole positioning is about authentic engagement instead of raids, your abuse prevention model becomes part of the product story. Making it clear that the tool supports humans, not automated spam loops, could be a strong differentiator.
Curious how you’re thinking about guardrails as it grows.
Using the official X API. Users don't have to connect their account in order to surface posts, only if they want to be able to send posts directly within the app. Permissions are pretty standard, just read/write which is what the X API offers, doesn't have super fine-grained permissions. We do pull the user's X posts as an opt-in feature so that the app can help draft posts more in the user's voice but this is opt in and we use it only for this purpose.
A this point we're mostly just focused on getting early users, haven't noticed any signs of abuse so far and not too hard to monitor since we're so small scale. I'd say some its about how the app is designed and presented, the point isn't to bring forward every semi-related post that would be appealing to mass spam bots, its really to pick out actual high-intent posts with the human in the loop. It's not impossible that someone could still try to use this to mass spam but again so far we're not seeing any evidence this is how it's being used.
It's not a totally trivial problem though sice there's sort of a fine line between "help me draft a post" and "send posts entirely on my behalf" as well as one between "help me connect in a targeted way with people actually looking for my product" and "mass send out unrelated spam". These are definitely questions we'll be thinking about as the product evolves and we see how it's actually being used.
Appreciate the detailed answer. Using the official X API and keeping posting as an opt-in action is a good baseline.
The human-in-the-loop design is important. That line between “assist drafting” and “fully automated posting” is exactly where tools can drift into abuse territory.
As you grow, you might consider:
• Rate limits per user and per workspace
• Explicit caps on automated sequences
• Anomaly detection for spam-like behavior
Abuse often appears only once scale hits, so building light guardrails early usually pays off.
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Cool concept! The guardrails will be part of the long-term trust story.
Congratulations on your launch. It looks impressive! What channels are you exploring to attract early users?
Right now personal word of mouth as well as X. Been using the tool to promote the tool a little and have been able to draw in a few users that way so far.
That’s a good start, honestly. If word of mouth and X are bringing users, that means the idea resonates.
The only downside is that those channels can be hard to scale long-term.
Have you thought about testing Reddit? If your tool solves a specific problem, there are usually communities already talking about it. When it’s positioned around the problem (not the product), it can bring solid feedback and users.
What type of users have signed up so far?
Agree Reddit is also probably a good channel. The thing is this is sort of a small spinoff project and most of my time is currently going towards building Voltcore: The World so haven't been able to put a ton of time into growth. Just wanted to get it out there since felt like could be something usable by other people/teams and wanted to test the water.
So far seems to other teams looking to find customers either for consumer products or other tech/SASS style businesses. Still only a handful of users so far tbh.
That makes sense. When it's a side project, growth is often the first area that gets deprioritized.
Interestingly, the users you are encountering, such as teams from SaaS companies and consumer product developers, are very active on Reddit. This is particularly true for founders and small teams who are looking for customers.
If time is a constraint, a structured approach to engaging on Reddit can be beneficial. Having someone consistently interact in the right threads, test different positioning strategies, and provide valuable feedback can allow you to focus on building your product.
If you ever decide you'd like to test this approach without it consuming too much of your time, I’d be happy to outline what it could look like for your specific audience.