Is ReplyGuy safe to use?

ReplyGuy posts AI replies on your behalf. That carries account risk on Reddit, X and HN, where automated promotional replies often get flagged as spam. The product itself is legitimate, but the strategy of auto-posting under your own account can put that account in trouble.

Will ReplyGuy ban my Reddit account?

Reddit's rules forbid automated self-promotion and shadowban accounts that pattern-match to spam. Auto-replying with product mentions across many subs is exactly that pattern. Some users run it fine for months. Others lose the account in a week. The risk is real and not under your control.

What's the difference between Gorilla and ReplyGuy?

ReplyGuy writes and posts the reply for you on Reddit, X and Hacker News. Gorilla finds threads on Reddit, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube, scores them by intent, and gives you the URL so you reply manually. Gorilla is free to start, then a flat $14.99/mo for 2,000 credits, one credit per qualified lead.

Should I use auto-reply tools or reply manually?

Manual is safer and converts better in the early stage. A founder reply with context and a real opinion outperforms an AI template. Auto-reply makes sense once you have a brand presence and a reply style the AI can mimic without sounding like a bot.

Does Gorilla cover Hacker News like ReplyGuy?

No. Gorilla covers Reddit, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube. ReplyGuy covers Reddit, X and HN. If HN is your only channel, ReplyGuy has it and Gorilla doesn't.

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Gorilla vs ReplyGuy.

ReplyGuy is an AI auto-reply tool for Reddit, X and Hacker News. It posts replies that mention your product on threads matching your keywords. Gorilla finds the threads, ranks them by intent across 5 platforms, and gives you the URL so you reply yourself. Free to start, then $14.99/mo. We mean the brand ReplyGuy, not the social-media slang.

The 30-second answer

Pick ReplyGuy if you want set-it-and-forget-it auto-replies and you accept the account risk. Pick Gorilla if you want to find the highest-intent threads across Reddit, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube and reply yourself, like a human.

Side by side

Gorilla compared with ReplyGuy across platforms, pricing, and features
	Gorilla	ReplyGuy
Platforms	Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok	Reddit, X, Hacker News
Pricing	Free to start, then $14.99/mo (2,000 credits)	Subscription (~$50–100/mo)
Auto-reply	✗ No (by design)	✓ Yes
Manual-reply workflow	✓ URL + intent score	✗ Posts for you
Lead scoring	✓ AI intent score	Keyword match
Multi-platform run	✓ 4 in one click	One platform at a time
Setup time	Under two minutes	30+ minutes (tone, project, keywords)
MCP / API	✓ Yes	✗ No

When each tool wins

ReplyGuy is better when

You want hands-off engagement and you've accepted that an account could get flagged. Hacker News is a key channel for you. You already have an established brand voice the AI can copy without sounding off.

Gorilla is better when

You're early. You want to read the room before you reply. You want to compare signal across Reddit, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube in one shot. You'd rather try it free with no card, then pay a flat $14.99/mo and only burn a credit on a qualified lead.

The auto-reply problem

Reddit, X and HN all have spam-detection systems built around posting patterns. New account, replies fast, mentions a product, posts often, links the same domain. That fingerprint gets accounts shadowbanned all the time. Auto-reply tools don't always trip it, but when they do, you don't get a warning. The account just stops mattering. Comments still appear to you and rank zero for everyone else.

Reddit moderators are the second filter. Most product subs ban self-promotion outright. A few allow it under a 9:1 rule (nine helpful comments for every one promotional). An AI replying to keyword matches will not pass that ratio, ever. Your account gets removed from the sub and your domain often joins the auto-block list. That damage carries across every account on your IP.

Manual replies dodge that. A founder who reads the thread, agrees with one part, pushes back on another, and mentions their tool once at the bottom looks like a person. Because they are. Conversion on those replies is also higher. People reply to people, not to templates. Founders who comment from a real account with a posting history convert leads at multiples of any auto-reply benchmark we've seen reported.

Gorilla is built around that workflow. We surface the thread, score it for intent, and stop. The reply is yours. Your account, your voice, your judgement on whether this thread is worth a comment at all.

The 4-platform argument

ReplyGuy covers Reddit, X and Hacker News. Gorilla covers Reddit, X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube. If your audience watches creators or scrolls short-form video, the YouTube and TikTok comment threads under "I'm looking for a tool that does X" videos are some of the highest-intent leads on the internet. ReplyGuy doesn't see them. Gorilla pulls all five in parallel and shows which platform has the most demand for your specific idea.

YouTube comments in particular tend to be slept on. A creator reviews a competitor, viewers in the comments ask "is there a cheaper version?", and most founders never see those threads because they're buried under a video. Gorilla pulls them up by intent score and lets you reply to a person who has already raised their hand.

To be fair: ReplyGuy has Hacker News. We don't. If HN is your channel, that's a real gap on our side. We may add it later. We have not.

Pricing math

ReplyGuy runs on a monthly subscription, roughly fifty to a hundred dollars depending on plan. Gorilla is free to start, no card, then a flat $14.99/mo for 2,000 credits. That's about $180 a year whether you refresh your lead list daily or once a month, and you only spend a credit on a qualified lead. Low-relevance results are free. The savings only matter if your reply workflow is manual anyway, which most founders' should be in the first six months.

Why we don't auto-reply

We could ship auto-reply in a sprint. We won't. The tool that helps you find your first 100 users shouldn't also be the tool that gets your account banned. Once you have a brand, hire an SDR or run ReplyGuy. Until then, the highest-impact thing a founder can do is read 20 threads a day and reply to the 3 that matter.