I Grew My Agency From $0 to $100K+ by Tracking Keywords on Reddit, X, and LinkedIn

Last February, I launched a software agency with almost no real plan for getting clients.

I knew I was a good developer, but I had no idea how to consistently acquire clients in such a saturated industry.

Every agency claimed they were the best. Every freelancer was competing on price. And cold outreach felt completely overcrowded.

I kept asking myself one question:

How do you find people who are already looking for help instead of chasing people who do not care?

At the time, I noticed something interesting.

Every day on Reddit, X, and LinkedIn, founders were openly asking for help:

• “Can anyone recommend a developer?”
• “Looking for a SaaS agency”
• “Need help building an MVP”
• “Any good React developers?”

Most people missed these opportunities because by the time they responded, the buyer had already been flooded with replies and messages.

So I started tracking keywords across the internet and replying quickly whenever someone was actively looking for help.

That one strategy ended up growing my agency from $0 to over $100k in revenue.

But honestly, the process became frustrating fast.

My inbox turned into chaos.

Every keyword alert tool I tried sent endless junk:

• recruiters hiring employees
• developers looking to be hired
• spam
• irrelevant discussions
• duplicate notifications
• random mentions with zero buyer intent

I would wake up to 50 alerts and maybe one was actually useful.

That was the real problem.

Most keyword monitoring tools are built for tracking mentions, not finding customers.

There is a huge difference between:

• someone casually mentioning “developer”

and

• a founder actively searching for one

The second one is where the real opportunity is.

Some of our best clients came directly from simple posts on Reddit, X, and LinkedIn from people already looking for help.

No cold outreach. No chasing leads. Just responding to existing demand faster than everyone else.

After dealing with this for months, I got frustrated enough to build TryKeywordAlerts.

I built it for one reason:

I wanted fewer alerts with better intent.

Instead of flooding your inbox with every keyword mention online, TryKeywordAlerts focuses on surfacing conversations that actually matter:

• founders looking for developers to build their idea
• companies looking for developers
• businesses actively searching for solutions

The same strategy that helped grow my agency is now built directly into the product itself.

Even now, I still think keyword tracking is one of the most underrated growth channels online.

Because when someone publicly asks for help, timing matters.

The people who find those conversations first usually win.

And sometimes a single Reddit post or X thread can turn into a client worth thousands of dollars.

That entire realization started with one frustration:

Too many alerts and not enough buyer intent.

If you want to find high-intent opportunities faster without getting flooded with irrelevant alerts, you can try TryKeywordAlerts for free at TryKeywordAlerts.com.