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Community rules · Reddit participation · demand research

Nobody breaks a subreddit rule on purpose.
They just never saw it.

m3ek reads a community's posted rules and shows them plainly, then helps you find the threads where your answer belongs and draft a reply that follows those rules. You post it yourself.

See how it works
Rules read before you write Unknown never means allowed You post it yourself Never posts for you
Community · rules read

r/SideProject

Promo: allowed Links: allowed AI: disclose 1 invited spot

A weekly thread exists so you can post your project. Post it there.

Community · rules not read

r/smallbusiness

Rules unread

Not read yet, so we will not tell you it is fine. Unknown never looks like allowed.

01 / The door

You cannot post yet

Karma, account age, or whether the mods know you. Nothing tells you which gate you failed.

02 / The rules

Every community is a different country

One bans links. One bans AI text. One allows promotion, but only on Saturday. Most people learn this by getting removed.

03 / The silence

A removed comment still looks fine to you

Reddit does not notify you. You keep seeing your own comment long after everyone else has stopped.

One thread at a time

Find the conversation, read its rules, write something useful.

Every draft is written for one thread you chose, against that community's own rules. There is no bulk mode and no cross-posting.

Where you are welcome

Start where the community invited you

Many communities keep a pinned thread for exactly this. Start there.

  1. 1
    Read the rules firstEach community's posted rules, classified: links, AI disclosure, self-promotion, account age and karma gates. Silence reads as unknown.
  2. 2
    Find the sanctioned spotsWeekly self-promo threads, Feedback Friday, showcase megathreads: the places where the community says promotion belongs.
  3. 3
    Find a question you can answerSomeone asking right now, whose question nobody has answered well yet.
  4. 4
    Draft for that one threadWritten against that community's rules, then edited and posted by you, from your own account.
Where you are quoted

See whether a thread is being cited

Subject to what the terms allow, and reported from the answer engines rather than from Reddit.

  1. 1
    Ask the enginesYour buyers' questions go to Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity through their own official APIs.
  2. 2
    Read back the sourcesWhichever public Reddit threads those services name as a source, linked to the original Reddit page.
  3. 3
    Answer, do not pitchIf you join one, write the reply that still reads well in six months. That is the only kind worth quoting.
  4. 4
    Ask again laterThe same question set, run again, so a change is measured rather than assumed.

Underneath both: demand research you can check

Point it at one community and it summarises what people there keep asking for, so you can tell a real pattern from one loud person.

Answer engines · where it applies

The answer your buyer reads was assembled from somewhere.

Where the terms of those services allow it, m3ek reports which public Reddit threads they name as a source, and links each one back to its original Reddit page.

The signal comes from the answer engines' own APIs. Reddit is not searched to produce it.

Answer engine · sources named
Two of the three sources are Reddit threads. Each one links back to Reddit.
The thing nobody tells you

Your comment is still there.
Only for you.

Reddit does not tell you when a comment is removed. It keeps showing it to you, and only to you. Moderator decisions are final; knowing about them is not.

m3ek checks the permalink you paste and reports what a visitor sees. That is the only view that tells the truth.

What you see
What everyone else sees
u/yourhandle r/freelance · 4h

Effective hourly rate is the number you want. Divide the fixed quote by the hours it actually took. That is the only figure that tells you which clients are worth keeping.

Visible · 12 points

This is what your own account shows you.

Before you write a word

Read the rules once, mechanically, for every community.

Four answers per community, pulled from their posted rules. When a rule does not say, the answer is unknown — never permission.

Community

r/freelance

AI: disclose Links: comments only Promo: limited Karma gate: not stated

Answer here, mention what you built — but say a model helped write it.

Community

r/Entrepreneur

Promo: banned AI: no rule Links: banned Age gate: 30 days

A pinned showcase thread does not override a rule that bans promotion. Blocked, and it names the rule.

Community

r/SideProject

Promo: allowed Links: allowed AI: disclose 1 invited spot

A weekly thread exists so you can post your project. Post it there.

Community

r/smallbusiness

Rules unread

Not read yet, so we will not tell you it is fine. Unknown never looks like allowed.

Reddit content in the product

Reddit's content stays Reddit's, and stays linked to Reddit.

m3ek has no value without Reddit, and it is not an alternative to it. Every thread you see here is a pointer back to the real one.

Attributed and linked

A thread shown in the app carries its community, its author and a link to the original Reddit page. Reading it there is the point.

No profiling of Redditors

Usernames are not collected into lists, scored, or used for lead generation or targeted outreach. We do not contact anyone on your behalf.

Deleted means gone

We will not go on showing content after its author, a moderator or Reddit has removed it. A cache is not a second chance to publish it.

No dataset, no resale

What you read is not accumulated into a store we could search, sell, or license on. There is nothing here to resell.

Two ways to buy it

Pay for the model calls, or bring your own key.

Same tool either way. The only difference is whose money the model calls come out of — and whether the thread you picked ever leaves your machine.

Pro

€29.99 / month

Model calls run on our infrastructure, so there is no key to obtain. Still being built — during the beta, everyone uses their own.

  • 300 drafts, 40 citation probes, 10 deep scans a month
  • The one thread you picked passes through us so the call can be made and metered
  • Sent as context for that one draft, and never for training a model
  • Cancel whenever; it runs to the end of the paid period
Bring your own key

Price to be announceda one-time purchase, not a subscription

Your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, or a model CLI you already run. We never see a call, so there is nothing to bill monthly.

  • No monthly limits — you pay the provider directly for what you use
  • Nothing leaves your machine at all, including drafts
  • Yours permanently, not a licence that lapses
  • Costs about a euro a month in model spend at ordinary use

Both start free: 10 drafts, 5 citation probes, one deep scan — on your own key. Early testers get a discount on whichever plan they pick. We will say what it is when the prices are final.

How your data is handled
What it will not do

The list of things we refuse to build is part of the product.

Each one is something we could ship. Shipping it is what gets accounts banned — and the same list is what we put in writing to Reddit.

No publish button

No endpoint posts to Reddit. You copy the draft and post it yourself. Automated posting is what gets accounts removed.

No accounts, no karma farming

m3ek does not create or manage Reddit accounts, vote, message, or farm karma, and it will not help you around a ban.

No mass posting

A draft is written for one thread you selected. There is no bulk mode, no queue, and no posting the same thing across communities.

No scraping search results

Google AI Overviews stay marked unmeasurable rather than scraped off a results page. An honest gap beats an invented number.

Not open yet

The beta opens soon. Put your name down.

We let people in a few at a time. Leave a name and an email; we write when your turn comes.

How your data is handled
1 · Leave your email name and email, nothing else
2 · We write to you when a place opens up
3 · A tester discount on whichever plan you pick