Analyze Reddit Posts with AI to Identify Business Opportunities

This workflow is ideal for entrepreneurs, small business owners, and market researchers who are looking to leverage social media insights to identify new business opportunities. It can also benefit marketers and content creators seeking to understand customer sentiments and emerging trends in their respective industries.

This workflow addresses the challenge of identifying business-related problems and opportunities from Reddit posts. By analyzing user-generated content, it helps uncover customer needs, sentiment trends, and potential solutions, allowing businesses to adapt their strategies effectively.

1. Manual Trigger: The workflow begins with a manual trigger that initiates the process.
2. Get Posts: It retrieves recent popular posts from the smallbusiness subreddit, focusing on posts that mention a need for a solution.
3. Filter Posts: The posts are filtered based on engagement metrics (e.g., more than 2 upvotes) and content relevance (ensuring the post is not empty and is recent).
4. Select Key Fields: Key information from the filtered posts is extracted, including the number of upvotes, post content, subreddit size, and post date.
5. Sentiment Analysis: Each post is analyzed for sentiment, categorizing them as positive, neutral, or negative.
6. Draft Emails: Based on the sentiment analysis, drafts are created for each category, allowing users to easily follow up on relevant posts.
7. AI Analysis: The posts are further analyzed to determine if they describe a business-related problem, followed by generating potential business solutions.
8. Summarization: A summary of the post is created for quick reference.
9. Output Results: Finally, all relevant data, including summaries and proposed solutions, are appended to a Google Sheets document for easy access and further analysis.