What F5Bot and OneUp Today each do
F5Bot is a free keyword-alert service. You give it keywords, and it emails you within minutes whenever those words show up on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters. That is the whole job: it tells you a mention happened. Everything after that, deciding whether the person is a real buyer, writing the reply or DM, and following up, is on you.
OneUp Today starts where F5Bot stops. It finds the high-intent Reddit posts, not just keyword matches, drafts a personalized DM or public reply in your voice for you to approve, and tracks each conversation through to a paying customer. It also runs on X and LinkedIn and publishes to 9 platforms from one draft.
How is OneUp Today different from F5Bot?
Alerts vs a closed loop
F5Bot is an alerting tool. It pings you, and you do the rest. OneUp Today closes the loop: discovery, drafted outreach you approve, publishing, and attribution from first message to paid, in one place.
Keyword match vs buyer intent
F5Bot matches the literal keyword, and its Ultra plan adds AI semantic alerts. OneUp Today scores posts on buyer intent using your ICP and competitor list, so you spend time on people actually evaluating a product like yours, not every thread that happens to contain a word.
Proof
OneUp Today publishes original research from 5,756 real Reddit conversations: messaging people who are already describing your problem replied at 26.6%, versus the 1 to 5% cold email typically sees. F5Bot is a monitoring tool and makes no outreach claims.
Where F5Bot is stronger
- It is genuinely free for basic keyword alerts
- It covers Hacker News and Lobsters too, not just Reddit
- Dead-simple setup for brand and competitor monitoring
- RSS, JSON, and API feeds on paid plans for your own integrations