Andrew Levenko

Building Ranqer — Reddit growth engine for startups & brands

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@BoringBiz_ and then they add a landing page, run google ads, and somehow lose money on a business that was profitable for 30 years

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

In Austin, Google ranks Reddit in the top 5 for 26 high-intent local queries.

For half of them, Reddit is #1.

"best dentist in Austin" → r/Austin, position 1.
"daycare recommendations Austin" → r/AustinParents, position 1.
"gym in Austin" → r/Austin, position 1.
"contractor recommendations Austin" → r/Austin, position 1.

Local businesses are paying Google for ads on these exact keywords. The Reddit threads ranking next to those ads are free.

We mapped the local Reddit ecosystem in Austin and found:
- 15 subreddits actively covering Austin and its suburbs (Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville)
- 1.22M residents combined audience
- 26 Google queries where Reddit threads sit in the top 5 organic results

If your business shows up positively in one of those threads, you compound on Google forever.

Repost ♻ if you run a service business in Austin.

P.S. Check ranqer app. We help local brands show up inside the Reddit threads that already rank for their category.

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@andevoo 100%

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

A founder did $1.3K in his first 30 days. $1,000 of it landed in the last 6 days.

That whole jump came from one Reddit thread, repeated three times.

1. He picked a niche subreddit where his target users were already shopping for alternatives. He posted a "best alternatives" listicle. His own product was second on a 4-tool list.
2. That thread did 70,000 views.
3. He ran the same play in two adjacent subs, both around 40K views.
4. From those three posts he got 2 yearly subscriptions and 3 one-off payments. Roughly $1K in real money.

No paid acquisition, no outbound team. A list of 4 tools where his own was second, written for a sub full of people actively shopping for tools like his.

Anyone googling alternatives in that category still lands on that thread today.

Repost ♻ if your next launch deserves the same shot.

P.S. Check ranqer app. We run this play for founders who do not have time to post daily.

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

Trendwatching is half noise, half cheat code.
Most weeks the data confirms what you already suspect. Some weeks it shows a sub no one's tracking.

AI tool and dev-service brands come to us a lot. https://t.co/1P0g0PBBhG clusters 23K subreddits into 70 niches and we scan one niche per week. This week: AI dev tools. 415 subs measured. 8 outliers:

r/claude: 24K → 107K (+341%)
r/CAIRevolution: 14K → 49K (+237%)
r/CharacterAIrevolution: 28K → 85K (+198%)
r/codex: 33K → 91K (+170%)
r/opencodeCLI: 17K → 35K (+109%)
r/SoulmateAI: 11K → 24K (+111%)
r/promptingmagic: 19K → 39K (+107%)
r/claudexplorers: 23K → 46K (+94%)

The remaining 407 subs grew at a median of 12%. So this isn't "AI is growing." It's where the growth concentrates.

r/claude (the product) grew 4.4× in two months. r/Anthropic (the brand) grew 65% in the same window. Product subs are now outpacing brand subs. If your company treats the brand sub as its main community channel, the user activity is somewhere else.

Character AI is supposed to be in decline. Two of our top 8 are r/CAIRevolution and r/CharacterAIrevolution: protest forks of the official sub, both bigger than the original now. Press narrative doesn't match the user data here.

Want us to scan your category? Drop it below.

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

Your competitors have a Reddit ranking.
You might not know yours.

We scanned Reddit for last week's cold email tools mentions.

Smartlead led on sentiment: 84 mentions, 48 positive.
Lemwarm led on volume at 87, but 14 were negative.
Lemlist 86, Saleshandy 85, Mailshake 79.
Instantly 51, Warmy 28, QuickMail 13, MailReach 12, Folderly 0.

I believe most brands in this space don't track their Reddit signal. It's the channel where the category gets compared right before someone picks a tool.

This week: search "{your tool} reddit", read the top threads, reply to one where your tool is genuinely the answer.

Which one in your category owns the comparison threads?

P.S. We pulled this with https://t.co/1P0g0PBBhG.
Drop your category and we'll run it next.

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

I found a way to crack local SEO in Chicago.

Tested 60 popular Chicago Reddit threads. 37 of them rank in Google's top 5.

Three at the top of page 1 right now:
- "best dentist in Chicago" → r/AskChicago, #1
- "brunch in Chicago" → r/chicagofood, #3
- "daycare recommendations Chicago" → r/chicago, #1

Reddit is 46.7% of all AI search citations (Profound study, 680M citations).

So one Reddit thread = two channels:
→ #1 on Google
→ The source ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity quote back

Chicago has 24 active subreddits. 2.1M people in them.

Running local SEO in 2026 without Reddit is losing both Google and AI search.

How to crack it:

1. Map your city's Reddit communities.
2. Find threads ranking for your category in Google and ChatGPT.
3. Show up as the useful comment, not the next blog post.

Or just use https://t.co/SbxoX6Oupp

Which city are you trying to crack?

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

6,500+ free visitors

every month.

one Reddit thread posted 3 months ago and ranking #1 in Google above every SEO blog for "best accounting software small business"

this isn't just one. thousands of threads do the same in every niche, quietly outranking dedicated SEO content

threads index in Google permanently and keep earning visits for years

if you sell to a niche, find the live threads where your buyers ask questions. drop a useful comment, or post your own answer thread. that's the playbook

https://t.co/SbxoX6Oupp automates this end-to-end

what's keeping you out?

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

The power of Reddit is that it compounds over time

A Reddit thread from 2019 potentially outranks blog posts written last month

Meta ads, on the contrary, have 0 organic residual after campaign ends and no search presence

CMOs running pure paid social are missing on really huge potential from organic traffic

We see brands spend aggressively on ads while their customers couldn’t find them on reddit

That’s why we built a reddit autopilot system, where we take care of all steps, from monitoring buying signals to auto-commenting
If you plan to scale on reddit - check Ranqer[.][.]app!

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@andevoo 1000%

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

As for 2026 Reddit has 1.36 billion MAU

It’s up 12% from 2024.

And still, we see that a lot of businesses / brands have zero presence in this massive market

Google ranks Reddit threads because the discussion is authentic. 2y.o comment can outrank a freshly published blog post

But to scale on reddit it’s hard manually, Reddit has very strict bot detection and it’s a huge pain

That’s why we built a reddit autopilot system, where we take care of all steps, from signals to auto-commenting

If you plan to scale on reddit - check it out!
https://t.co/SbxoX6Oupp

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@andevoo Absolutely

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

Why being bullish on Reddit growth channel? 😎

Reddit organic traffic >600% growth in 2 years.
from 175M to 1.23B monthly visits

More than 40 million search queries per day on the platform

But reddit marketing was a pain for us, accounts shadowban / so much time spent on finding right thread, writing comments manually

We solved these all by creating fully autopilot system for Reddit growth. Taking care of all steps, from signals to commenting.

Check it out!
https://t.co/vNTTwjlb63

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@mscode07 https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq for saas founders busy to farm reddit

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@akinayoUI nexova site is clean bro. building https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq myself

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@fiz_codes https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq, would kill for honest feedback🤙

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@urspeaks building https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq for saas on reddit 🤝

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@dramaricic https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq AI-visibility reddit layer for saas founders

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@ahmednabik @TheAlfaHQ https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq - great tool for both startups AND agencies

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@huge_icons https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq, bring the heat

[Andrew Levenko @Lecrassus]

@FlippedRay https://t.co/leDhqPLHDq, roast away 🔪