Obserf finds public conversations and listings where your product could genuinely help, filters out weak matches, ranks the rest, and drafts what you could say. It’s an open-source, local-first CLI for developers and indie makers. It never posts – you stay in control.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Obserf because marketing a developer tool has a weird failure mode: either you spend hours digging through Reddit, HN, GitHub, and the rest of the internet for the rare conversation where your project is actually relevant, or you use outreach software whose answer to everything is basically “send more messages.” I wanted the opposite: fewer places, better reasons to show up. Obserf searches public conversations and listings, throws out weak matches, ranks what’s left, and drafts something you can review. It’s open source, local-first, and it never posts. You still have to decide whether saying anything is a good idea. The surprisingly hard part is teaching it “no.” A lot of the work has gone into making “don’t mention your product here” just as valid an answer as “this could actually help.” I’d much rather get five solid opportunities than fifty results that technically contain the right keywords. If you build dev tools or indie products, I’d love to hear how you currently find good places to talk about them – and especially where Obserf’s judgment gets it wrong.

Obserf 0.3 is out!

Turns out I spend more time reviewing findings than scanning for them, so this release is mostly about the review screen.

Each finding now shows the model’s reasoning first, then what the page actually says, then the score. Click “Why 55?” and you get the math. Everything has a keyboard shortcut, and undo is one key away, which matters because d sits
right next to s.

I also removed the green and amber score colours. They made the ranking look more certain than it is.

bun add @obserf/cli@0.3.0

Same question as last time: where does it get things wrong for you?

Obserf 0.3 is out!

Turns out I spend more time reviewing findings than scanning for them, so this release is mostly about the review screen.

I also removed the green and amber score colours. They made the ranking look more certain than it is.

bun add @obserf/cli@0.3.0

Same question as last time: where does it get things wrong for you?

Obserf

Find conversations where your product can genuinely help

Find conversations where your product can genuinely help