Can I vibecode SnitchFeed?

NOT REALLY · don't bother
price $59/moyou'd save $708/yrbuild time not a true replacement; consolation build in one to two dayscategory 🐦 social mediareplaced by 0 people

A weekend build gets you a keyword matcher; SnitchFeed is a signal refinery. Five platforms in one stream (Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Hacker News), run through layered filtering: boolean queries, AI scoring for relevance, sentiment, and buying intent, and noise auditing that keeps trimming. What comes out is a shortlist of threads worth answering, delivered where you act: Slack, Discord, a live dashboard, or your own AI agent via MCP and REST API. To be fair: if you only care about Reddit and Hacker News, a DIY build gets you further than the verdict suggests. It's the X and LinkedIn coverage, the cross-platform aggregation, and the tuned scoring that a one-shot build can't reach.

the prompt
Build a personal social-listening tool inspired by SnitchFeed, starting from an empty folder. This is an honest consolation build: it watches free, open feeds only and does not replace SnitchFeed's aggregation, tuned scoring, or automation layer.

Stack (use exactly this): Next.js 15 + TypeScript + PostgreSQL + BullMQ + Redis.

Core loop:
- Let me define keywords/brand terms and a poll interval per source.
- Poll Reddit's API, Bluesky's search, and Hacker News's Algolia API via a BullMQ worker on a cron schedule; dedupe matches by source + id.
- Score each match's relevance and sentiment with one LLM call (OpenAI or Anthropic); store both alongside the raw post.
- Push new matches to a Slack or Discord incoming webhook.
- Smallest polished UI that closes the loop: add a keyword, watch matches stream in, mark them read or irrelevant.

Rules:
- Single-user and private by default; all data in local Postgres.
- Every API key, app password, and webhook URL in .env, with .env.example provided; never log secrets; validate untrusted input.
- No analytics, telemetry, ads, or accounts beyond what's declared.
- Clear empty, loading, validation, success, and failure states.

Deliberately out of scope (do not fake these): X/Twitter and LinkedIn coverage, cross-platform aggregation and dedup at scale, continuously tuned relevance scoring and noise auditing, a live real-time dashboard, and any agent-facing API/MCP layer.

Finish line:
- Unit tests for the dedupe logic and the scoring call, plus one end-to-end smoke test: keyword added, fake match flows through to a webhook call.
- README covering setup, the exact free APIs used and their rate limits, and this build's limitations versus a paid multi-source listening tool.
- Scripts for install, development, test, build, and a production-style local run.
- Run the tests and the build before finishing; fix errors rather than describing them.

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why people still pay

Because a mention here isn't something to read, it's something to act on. Someone posting 'what tool does X?' is at peak intent, and that window closes in hours; SnitchFeed hands you that thread scored and tagged, then feeds the follow-up: webhooks into outreach stacks like Clay and HeyReach, or an AI agent working the queue over MCP. A DIY matcher can find mentions; it can't power a pipeline.

what you lose

xX/Twitter and LinkedIn coverage entirely (neither has a free public search API), so two of the five platforms are simply gone

xone aggregated, deduplicated stream across five platforms instead of five half-working pollers

xthe noise-reduction stack: boolean query grammar, AI fit scores, sentiment, intent tags, and automated noise auditing that keeps tuning what gets through

xa real-time dashboard with curated feeds, saved views, and analytics reports instead of a Slack ping you learn to ignore

xan agent-native surface: an MCP server and public REST API so your own AI agents can search mentions, create listeners, and act on intent directly

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the escape hatch

Don't feel like building it? These folks already made it free.

F5BotEmails you when a keyword shows up on Reddit, Hacker News or Lobsters. No scoring, no dashboard, no X or LinkedIn · free and it never sleeps.$0free

no votes, no pay-to-list · just what's real

questions
Can I vibecode SnitchFeed?

Not really. SnitchFeed's value is not the code: One of the few tools here built to be used by AI agents via MCP, not just replaced by one. See the honest breakdown above.

How much does SnitchFeed cost?

SnitchFeed costs about $59/month (Starter, checked 2026-08-05), which is $708 per year.

What do I lose by replacing SnitchFeed?

Honestly: X/Twitter and LinkedIn coverage entirely (neither has a free public search API), so two of the five platforms are simply gone; one aggregated, deduplicated stream across five platforms instead of five half-working pollers; the noise-reduction stack: boolean query grammar, AI fit scores, sentiment, intent tags, and automated noise auditing that keeps tuning what gets through; a real-time dashboard with curated feeds, saved views, and analytics reports instead of a Slack ping you learn to ignore; an agent-native surface: an MCP server and public REST API so your own AI agents can search mentions, create listeners, and act on intent directly. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to SnitchFeed?

Yes: F5Bot (Emails you when a keyword shows up on Reddit, Hacker News or Lobsters. No scoring, no dashboard, no X or LinkedIn · free and it never sleeps.) The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.

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