Run a daily market trend scan of X and Reddit with Claude on a schedule
Idea + starter prompt, not run by us yet
For: Founders who want a daily read on what is moving in their market
A commenter schedules a daily market research task in Claude Cowork and gives it a browser, so Claude can read X and Reddit pages that direct fetching would block. They limit it to chosen sources, like Reddit JSON feeds and picked posts, rather than open web searches.
Steps
- Pick the exact sources: a few subreddits and accounts, not open web search.
- Set up a scheduled daily task that reads only those pages and writes a short digest of the trends it sees.
- Point it at trusted sites only. The commenter also isolates it on an older spare MacBook to keep the risk small.
- Read the first few digests and drop sources that add noise.
- Watch your usage. The commenter warns that frequent polling can use a lot of tokens.
Starter prompt
Do one test run using only these public sources: [subreddit or feed links] and [X accounts or posts]. Do not create a recurring task. After I review the test digest, ask me to confirm the time and timezone before scheduling daily runs. Don't search the open web. Look for trends in [market or topic]: what people ask, complain about or praise. First show me your plan and do one test run, and don't save, post or send anything yet. Write a digest of at most [10] bullets, with the link for each point so I can check it. Don't log in anywhere for me and never ask me for passwords. If a page is blocked, say so instead of guessing. Tell me roughly how much usage the run took.
Original post: Reddit · found via agentusecases.ai. Written up in our own words. We haven't run it, so test it on made-up data first.