On Stack Exchange
On Stack Exchange the marketing action is a real answer to a real question. FounderReply drafts answers and comments on the site you connect, in your voice and with the affiliation disclosed, and holds each one in the approval queue. Reputation and the write throttle apply to the agent exactly as they apply to you.
On Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange work is slow and unglamorous. You read the questions in your own tags, you write the answer the asker actually needed, and you keep an eye on the ones that keep pulling traffic.
You keep a handful of tags open — the ones where your problem space shows up — and you read the new questions in them. Most are not yours to answer. A few are exactly the thing you have already solved twice.
Then you write it properly. Working code, the reason it works, the case where it does not. This community has spent fifteen years deleting promotional answers, so the answer has to stand on its own before your product is mentioned at all.
And you get there early. A question answered in its first hours collects the votes, and that answer is still the first thing a developer reads three years later. Being late means writing underneath someone else’s accepted tick.
Stack Exchange, as it looks
The thread, the reply and the message — drawn as Stack Exchange draws them, with the agent's draft arriving in each one. What you see here is what lands in your approval queue.
The question page
Asked, modified, viewed. The stats strip tells you whether a question is still alive, and the answer count tells you what a developer reads first.
Your Answer
The markdown editor with its toolbar, the draft typing itself out, and the answer landing with its own vote column and the accepted tick.
Under an answer
The thin hairline comment list under an answer — where a correction, a caveat or the one number the asker still needs goes.
The case
Stack Exchange is where developers go with the exact problem your product solves, phrased in their own words. The answers they find there were written years ago and are still ranking. For a technical product, this is the search result that decides whether you exist.
The first search hit
Search the problem your product solves and a Stack Exchange question is usually above every vendor page. An answer you wrote sits inside that result, at the top of the page, for as long as the question keeps getting asked.
Developers decide
For a technical product the person who picks it is the one debugging at eleven at night. They are not on a webinar. They are reading the accepted answer to the error message in front of them, and deciding what to try next.
Reputation is the credential
Developers discount marketing and trust a number they can check. Reputation is earned one answer at a time, in public, by people who could have downvoted you instead. A founder with reputation in their own tags is read differently.
The question already ranks
Someone has already asked how to do the thing you sell, in general terms, and that question ranks today. The answers under it are the shortlist. Adding a good one to a thread that is already read beats building an audience from nothing.
Getting connected
Four steps, and the second one is the only place you do anything. The credential below is the literal artefact the connect flow uses — not a marketing paraphrase of it.
FounderReply acts on the account you sign in with, under a connection you authorise yourself and can withdraw again from Stack Exchange whenever you like. It never makes an account of its own.
Stack Exchange accepts a comma-separated scope list, and no_expiry means the token never expires — so there is no refresh flow at all.
write_access,no_expiry,read_inbox,private_infoDiscovery runs on that connection: it finds the Stack Exchange threads where you are a genuine answer and pulls the parent in with the draft, so you are approving a reply in context rather than a sentence with no thread attached. Reading is never gated.
Each action on Stack Exchange has its own level, and you can move any of them — including past where Stack Exchange’s own rules sit, once FounderReply has named the rule you are crossing and the account risk. Your setting is the one that applies, and every change is logged as yours.
Out of the box
One setting decides whether an action happens by itself: your own level for it, per network. Every action ships at what Stack Exchange's own rules allow, and you can move any of it — including past that line, once you have been told which rule it crosses. Read from the connector's capability flags and lib/autonomy.ts at render time.
| You start at | Stack Exchange’s own rules | |
|---|---|---|
| Reply on your own postsAnswering comments left on your content | Waits for your approval | Waits for your approval |
| Comment on someone else’s postThe highest-risk action on every platform | Off by default | Waits for your approval |
Stack Exchange punishes promotion hard and gates writes by reputation, so every action starts human-gated — nothing on Stack Exchange defaults to unattended. The thresholds the API enforces are the site’s own, and the agent meets them the same way you do.
The room
Stack Exchange questions are the highest-intent technical content on the web: someone described their exact problem, and thousands of people with the same problem found it afterwards. It is also the least forgiving surface here — the community has spent fifteen years removing promotional answers, and it is extremely good at it.
The rule is short: the answer has to work without your product. If the question can only be solved by buying something, say so and disclose the affiliation; if it can be solved another way, answer that way and mention your tool as an aside or not at all.
The gate
Stack Exchange is reached with OAuth 2.0 (explicit flow), on the account you connected. The agent reads freely, drafts in your voice, and stops at your queue — and whether a given action keeps stopping is a dial you own, per action.
FAQ
Ready when you are
The free plan connects one account, and nothing is published to Stack Exchange until you release it.
Free to start · Approval on by default · No card required