How do I get my AI to read Reddit and X for product complaints?
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client over MCP, then ask in plain words. In this recorded run an AI client answered “What do people complain about with standing desks on Reddit and X?” with 3 requests on Reddit and X: 191 items read in 56.6 seconds for 88 credits ($0.29). Below are the calls it made, the answer with its sources, and the prompt and API calls to run it yourself. Recorded 2026-10-18.
The question
What do people complain about with standing desks on Reddit and X?
The complaints are not in one place. They sit in dozens of threads and in the comments under them, on two platforms that each search and sort differently, so one search never shows which complaint comes up most. Reading what this run returned by hand takes about 1 h 10 min (16,750 words at 240 a minute).
What the AI did
It chose the tools itself: 3 requests on Reddit and X. Each row is one tool call as the client showed it, with what it sent, how much came back and what it cost.
| Platform | Tool | Sent | Requests | Returned | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
search | query: "standing desk" | 1 | 7 posts | 2 | |
| X | search | query: "standing desk" | 1 | 11 posts | 2 |
comment_insights | targets: ["https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/1ntedtv/do_standing_desks_actually_help_or_are_they/","https://www.reddit.com/r/WFH/comments/1q1ia5q/i_bought_an_expensive_standing_desk_6_months_ago/","https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesk/comments/qd8b8v/was_your_standing_desk_worth_it_in_the_long_run/"] · focus: "what people complain about with their standing desk" · scale: "small" | 1 | 173 comments | 84 | |
| Total | 3 | 191 items | 88 | ||
The answer
What the client answered, from what it had read. The line under each finding is a post it read, or a figure from those posts.
I searched both, then read 173 comments under the 3 most-discussed Reddit threads. 55 of the 162 that could be judged complain about something; the complaints cluster here:
- Back and neck pain12%“Either position for 8 hours solid leaves my back hurting.”20 comments
- Forgetting to switch between sitting and standing11%“I forget I have it most of the time...”18 comments
- Sore feet from standing8%“My feet do get tired by the end of the day it’s better than the back pain.”13 comments
The posts it rests on
A selection of what was read; the marked words are what a finding rests on. An item without a link says so.
- r/BuyItForLife · comment55wFinding 1
Either position for 8 hours solid leaves my back hurting.
Open the source - r/BuyItForLife · comment55wFinding 2
Sometimes I forget I’ve been standing for like 2-3 hours lol.
Open the source - r/BuyItForLife · comment54wFinding 1
Standing for 8 hours would leave my back, thighs, & feet hurting. Sitting for 8 hrs really only bothered my back. N
Open the source - r/WFH · comment41wFinding 3
My feet do get tired by the end of the day it’s better than the back pain.
Open the source - r/BuyItForLife · comment55wFinding 2
I forget I have it most of the time...
Open the source - r/WFH · comment41wFinding 3
I did the same and my feet were killing me. Thls led to me buying my first ever pair of crocs. I got the fuzzy
Open the source
What it cost
3 requests, 88 credits in total: $0.29 at the $10 rate. Every answer of the API states the credits it charged and the balance left, so your AI can tell you what a question cost. A call that fails costs nothing.
| Pack | Credits per dollar | This answer |
|---|---|---|
| $10 = 3,000 credits | 300 | $0.29 |
| $50 = 20,000 credits | 400 | $0.22 |
| $200 = 100,000 credits | 500 | $0.18 |
Ask it yourself
Connect SocialToAI to your AI client once (the steps for each client), then paste the question. You do not name tools or parameters: the client picks them.
What do people complain about with standing desks on Reddit and X?The same in code: the calls this run made, as requests to the API.
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "reddit", "query": "standing desk" }'curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "x", "query": "standing desk" }'curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/tools/comment_insights \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "targets": ["https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/1ntedtv/do_standing_desks_actually_help_or_are_they/","https://www.reddit.com/r/WFH/comments/1q1ia5q/i_bought_an_expensive_standing_desk_6_months_ago/","https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesk/comments/qd8b8v/was_your_standing_desk_worth_it_in_the_long_run/"], "focus": "what people complain about with their standing desk", "scale": "small" }'What to try next
- Ask next: “Which features get praised?”
- Ask next: “Track this weekly”
- Swap in your own product or category and keep the rest of the question.
- Add “only posts from the last month” to see what is being said now.
- Ask for the three threads behind each complaint, with links, and read them yourself.
- Run it as one request with the ready-made tool Comment analysis: What the comments under your posts are about: the topics and their shares, the questions asked, who wants to buy and what is complained about, with the comments quoted.
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