reddit-digest

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.