Private pilot preparation · Chrome extension · Local-first

A Reddit growth intern
that lives in your browser.
The send button stays yours.

During your working hours, it quietly patrols the subreddits you care about — at a human pace — and turns scattered posts into a short digest ranked by intent. Each pick comes with “why this is worth your reply” and a draft that respects the room. You spend 5 minutes working a list, not an hour scrolling a feed.

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NO PUBLIC CHECKOUT · PADDLE SELLER & DOMAIN REVIEW IN PROGRESS · BYOK (YOUR OWN MODEL KEY)
Factotum daily digest: intent-ranked posts with category filters and a live daily budget bar
Daily digest · intent-ranked · category filters · live budget bar (actual product UI)
How it works

Three quiet moves a day: patrol, score, draft.
All of it on your machine.

01 / Patrol

Human-paced background browsing

It reuses your logged-in Reddit session and reads subreddit feeds in background tabs during your work hours. Fingerprint dedup means it only ever looks at what's new.

≤ 3 sessions/day · ≤ 40 pages/day
work hours only · 25–65s between steps
02 / Score

Intent scores you can take apart

Every point is itemized — buying signals, audience fit, freshness. Posts hitting your exclusion words are filtered for free, zero tokens spent.

recommend line 65 · ≤ 5 posts/session
better to skip than to stretch
03 / Draft

Drafts that respect the room

It reads the subreddit's rules before writing: value first, disclosure of interest, your banned phrases never appear — if they slip in, the draft is rejected and rewritten.

tone profile per sub · ≤ 3 regenerations
banned-phrase hard check
Post detail: the original post, the itemized score breakdown, the draft with its reasoning and risk note, and the go-reply action
Post detail · ① the post ② why it's worth it ③ draft & reasoning (actual product UI)
Hard limits · written into the code

What it will never do —
that matters more than what it does.

Reddit punishes marketing behavior with bans. These limits aren't settings; they're the shape of the product.

×01

Never auto-submits

“Go reply” does exactly two things: open the thread, fill in the draft. The submit button belongs to Reddit. The last click is always yours.

×02

Never over-browses

Three patrol sessions and forty pages a day, hard-capped, inside your work hours only. Budget exhausted means all proactive behavior stops until tomorrow.

×03

Trips a fuse on any rate-limit signal

Captcha, HTTP 429, frequency warnings — any one of them halts everything and alerts you. Resuming requires your manual confirmation, at half budget for 24 hours.

×04

Never phones home

No servers, no telemetry, no “anonymous usage stats”. One click exports your whole workspace; uninstalling deletes everything, physically.

“Go reply” opens the Reddit thread and fills in your draft — the last click is always yours.
— the oath printed at the bottom of the product UI
Data flow · the complete list

Where does your data go? All of it, listed.

Stays on your machine

  • Scraped content: posts, comments, drafts, logs → your browser's OPFS, wiped on uninstall
  • Config & keys: chrome.storage.local — this one computer, nowhere else
  • Adoption counters: drafts delivered / replies / ignores — local stats that only leave when you export them yourself

The only two egress paths

  • Reddit: page reads and a session-health check through your logged-in browser. This use is subject to Reddit's terms and may carry account risk
  • Your AI endpoint (BYOK): content selected by the configured scoring workflow. You enter the endpoint and grant its host permission. No key, no AI scoring
Planned pilot pricing · not currently for sale

$29 once. A planned thirty-day pilot — no subscription.

$29 one-time · 30 days
  • 14-day full-featured trial first — no credit card
  • Founding Pilot price: pay once, no auto-renewal, nothing to cancel
  • LLM usage runs on your own key — transparent, pennies a day
  • 14-day no-questions refund window · uninstalling deletes all your data
Checkout not available
Paddle Sandbox / review only · no payment accepted today
FAQ

“Will it get me banned?” “Who do you sell my data to?”
Straight answers.

Isn't this just a scraper plus an AI call?
Technically, it combines page reading with AI-assisted scoring and drafting. The product layer adds a strict activity budget, a fuse that stops on rate-limit signals, deduplication, and a short daily digest. Those controls reduce activity; they do not guarantee account safety or grant permission from Reddit.
Will this get my Reddit account banned?
No tool can guarantee that. Factotum limits activity to ≤3 sessions and ≤40 pages a day, uses work-hour scheduling and randomized pacing, and stops on rate-limit signals. It never submits content for you. Factotum is not affiliated with or authorized by Reddit; you are responsible for Reddit's terms, community rules, and your account.
Do you upload or sell my data?
Factotum has no product-data backend. Posts, drafts, and logs live in your browser and are deleted when the extension is uninstalled. The extension connects to Reddit and, when configured, sends scoring and drafting inputs directly to your chosen AI endpoint. The public website is statically hosted, so its host receives ordinary request metadata. We do not run product analytics or sell user data.
Why do I need my own AI key (BYOK)?
Three reasons: your content never passes through a third-party relay; cost stays transparent (a mini-class model runs pennies a day); and we have no server that could hold a key for you. Skip it and patrol still works — posts get collected and deduped, just not scored.
How is this different from just browsing Reddit, or from Hootsuite-style tools?
Scrolling is “see whatever the feed serves”; Factotum is “here are the five threads worth your reply, ranked, with drafts”. Social-media tools help you publish; Factotum helps you decide where to show up and what to say — and deliberately refuses to publish. It's built for indie hackers and small teams who get customers from Reddit but can't camp on it.
Does it support HN, X, or LinkedIn?
This build is Reddit-only, by design. The perception layer is architected as per-platform plugins, but multi-platform support will be decided by real seed-user feedback — not promised in advance.
What happens to my data when the trial ends?
Patrol and scoring pause; your workspace stays fully readable and exportable. Enter an activation code and everything resumes. Uninstall, and everything is gone.
Can I pay or subscribe today?
No. The planned Founding Pilot is a one-time $29 purchase for 30 days, with no automatic renewal, but live checkout is disabled while Paddle reviews the seller, product, and domain. This website does not collect payment details.