| name | reddit-digest |
| description | Monitor relevant subreddits for questions, problems, and pain points that reveal content gaps on artstroy.net. Top questions with no good answer are article opportunities. |
Reddit Digest
Reddit's value as a content signal source is different from HN or RSS. It reveals what questions practitioners are actually asking — these make excellent article topics because demand is proven.
Subreddits to Monitor
| Subreddit | Pillar | What to look for |
|---|
r/QualityAssurance | QA | Unanswered questions, frustration posts |
r/softwaretesting | QA | Common pain points, tool comparisons |
r/netsec | Pentesting | Educational technique questions, CVE discussions |
r/hacking (legal context) | Pentesting | Ethical hacking questions |
r/webdev | Programming | Astro/React questions, performance issues |
r/typescript | Programming | Type system problems, TS 5.x features |
r/node | Programming | Bun/Node ecosystem shifts |
API Access
Reddit provides a public JSON API (no auth required for read):
https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/top.json?t=week&limit=25
https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/hot.json?limit=25
Use EXA_API_KEY for deeper Reddit search if needed (Exa can search Reddit content semantically).
What to Capture
Best signals:
- Questions with many upvotes but no accepted/highly-voted answer → content gap
- Posts describing a specific pain point with a tool artstroy.net covers
- "Is there a guide for X?" posts → explicit article request
Skip:
- Rant posts without a clear question
- Questions already answered in top comment
- Off-topic (job posts, memes)
Scoring
Same rubric as other digest skills: Relevance + Timeliness + Uniqueness, 1–5 each. Threshold: ≥10/15.
Bonus for Reddit: if the same question appears in multiple subreddits or has appeared multiple times in the past month, add +1 to the Uniqueness score (proven demand).
Output
### {Thread Title}
- **Subreddit**: r/{name}
- **Link**: {url}
- **Signal type**: Unanswered question / Pain point / Explicit request
- **Score**: {R}/5 + {T}/5 + {U}/5 = {total}/15
- **Pillar**: QA / Pentesting / Programming
- **ArtStroy angle**: {how to answer the question better than the current top comments}
Pass qualifying candidates to topic-brief skill.
