Looking for a GummySearch
replacement?
GummySearch stopped taking customers in late 2025 after it couldn't secure a commercial Reddit API license. If you relied on it to find conversations on Reddit, here's an approach that can't end the same way.
Same goal, different machine
GummySearch was audience research. Social Cue is engagement discovery. They overlap where it matters most — finding the Reddit threads your customers are in right now.
What GummySearch did
Cloud-based subreddit research: browse audiences, mine pain points and themes, monitor keywords — all powered by Reddit's data API, which is why a licensing dispute could end it overnight.
What Social Cue does
Finds specific conversations worth joining for your brand — scored for relevance, with a drafted reply ready to edit. It reads Reddit through your own logged-in browser, so there is no central API dependency at all.
Where Social Cue goes further
It doesn't stop at research: every opportunity comes with a drafted reply, and Pro pre-fills it in your own browser so posting is one review and one click. Plus Hacker News, and a passive Chrome extension that scores what you're already reading.
Where it's different
No cloud dashboards or aggregate audience analytics — everything runs and stays on your machine. If you need team-wide subreddit trend reports, we're not that tool. If you need to actually join conversations, we are.
The shutdown-proof part
🖥️ Your browser is the API
Discovery drives your own logged-in Chrome. There's no data-API contract between us and Reddit to renegotiate, reprice, or revoke.
🔑 Your own AI
Scoring and drafting run on your Claude subscription or API key. We never meter your usage, so there are no reply quotas to outgrow.
🗄️ Your data stays yours
Opportunities live in local files on your disk. If we disappeared tomorrow, your queue, brands, and history would still be sitting on your machine.
Discovery is free. Pro — the unified queue and assisted posting — is $19/mo with a 14-day free trial, less than half GummySearch's starting tier.