Why no auto-DMs or auto-replies?

Auto-DMs on Reddit are the fastest way to get your account banned and your subreddit moderators angry. Reddit's culture rewards thoughtful human replies and punishes anything that smells like outreach automation. Heardley surfaces the threads; you write the reply. The reply linter flags AI tells (em-dashes, 'It's not just X, it's Y', etc.) so what you ship sounds like you, not GPT.

Does Heardley cover Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter?

No. Reddit only, by choice. Reddit threads are also the answers ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity cite when your buyers ask product questions, so being heard on Reddit double-counts: humans see it, AI cites it. Facebook groups are gated and Twitter's API is hostile to small tools.

What's BYOK and why is it cheaper?

Bring Your Own (OpenRouter) Key. You pay OpenRouter $2-$5/month directly for the AI calls. Heardley charges $9/month for the software. Devi bundles the LLM markup into $49, most of that price is GPT calls you're already paying for at a markup.

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Devi AI alternative

If Devi spread itself too thin across four platforms.

Devi tries to cover Reddit, Facebook groups, LinkedIn, and Twitter, with auto-replies and auto-DMs everywhere. That's a great pitch deck and a bad strategy: auto-DMs on Reddit get you shadowbanned in a week, and the filtering can't be sharp when it's stretched across four wildly different platforms. Heardley does one thing: Reddit lead-discovery, deeply. Intent scoring, reply linter, competitor intel. Read-only by design. $9/month, BYOK.

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Feature comparison

Where Heardley beats Devi, and where it doesn't.

Capability

Devi AI

Heardley

Reddit monitoring

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Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter

● all three

Reddit only

0-3 intent scoring + categories

accept/reject only

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Reply linter (anti-shadowban)

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Auto-DM / auto-reply

● (risky)

never (by design)

Competitor intelligence + sentiment

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OP-response + upvote tracking

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Hosted SaaS, no setup

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Starting price

$49

When to pick which

Pick Devi if you need 4 platforms. Pick Heardley if Reddit is where buyers are.

Devi wins when your buyers genuinely live across Reddit, Facebook groups, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and you're willing to accept shallower filtering and the risk profile of auto-DMs as the cost of breadth.

Heardley wins when your buyers are on Reddit (and reading Reddit threads cited by ChatGPT / Claude / Perplexity when they ask product questions), you want intent scoring instead of binary accept/reject, and you'd rather have a reply linter that keeps your account safe than an auto-DM system that gets it banned.

$9/month or $54 lifetime Less than 1/5 of Devi's price. Read-only, no auto-DMs. BYOK OpenRouter.

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FAQ

What Devi users actually ask before switching.

How is Heardley different from Devi AI?

Reddit-only, but deeper: 0-3 intent scoring, AI-tell reply linter, competitor intelligence with sentiment. No auto-DMs, those get accounts banned on Reddit. $9/month BYOK vs Devi's $49 bundled.

Why no auto-DMs?

Reddit moderators and Reddit's anti-spam systems both punish DM automation. We surface threads, you write replies. The linter catches AI tells before you post.

Does Heardley cover Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter?

No, Reddit only, by choice. Reddit threads are also what ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity cite when buyers ask product questions, so being there double-counts.

What's the actual LLM cost?

$2-$5/month on OpenRouter for heavy use. On their free model tier, basically nothing. You set the model in Settings.

Is there a free option?

No free trial. First scrape on every account is included for preview. Hosted is $9/month or $54 lifetime.

Can I migrate filters from Devi?

Filters are just keywords and subreddit names, paste them into the dashboard, takes about 90 seconds.

Try it.

If you want Reddit done properly instead of four platforms done halfway, Heardley's the trade.

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