Finding the videos
You search your category and sit through the reviews, comparisons and tutorials that come back. You note the ones people are still arguing under, because those are the threads where a comment gets read instead of buried.
On YouTube
YouTube comment automation on the videos your buyers are watching
YouTube comment sections are search results that keep collecting readers for years. FounderReply finds the videos where your product is a genuine answer, drafts a comment or a reply in your voice, and holds it in the approval queue. Every public action waits for you, including replies on your own videos.
- Acts on the YouTube account you already own — connected with Google OAuth 2.0 (sensitive scope), and revocable by you without touching us.
- Finds the YouTube threads where you are a genuine answer, and brings the parent in with the draft so you approve a reply in context.
- Every draft lands in one queue. What leaves it unattended is whatever you set, per action, and it starts where YouTube’s own rules put it.
Drafted
On YouTube
What you’re already doing on YouTube
None of this is a content strategy. It is an evening with the search box open, watching videos in your category at 1.5x, reading the comments under them, and typing the answer nobody else typed.
Writing the comment that helps
You answer the question the video left open, in plain words, with the number or the step you actually know. Then you read it back and take out the half that started to sound like a pitch.
Answering your own comments
Every comment your own videos earn gets a reply from you, the blunt ones first. When the same question turns up for the fourth time, you write the good version once and pin it to the top.
YouTube, as it looks
Every YouTube surface, working
The thread, the reply and the message — drawn as YouTube draws them, with the agent's draft arriving in each one. What you see here is what lands in your approval queue.
Posted
In the comments
Comments under someone else’s video
Two comments, the like row, and twelve replies folded underneath. This is where people who just watched a review say what they still need. Your agent writes the comment that answers it.
Replied
In the thread
A reply inside the comment thread
Someone answers your comment. The reply box opens indented under theirs, the draft goes in, and the thread keeps its shape — one person answering another, in public, where the next viewer reads it.
Pinned
On your channel
Pinned to the top of your own video
The answer your viewers keep asking for, pinned above every other comment on your own video with the creator heart on it. It stays the first thing each new viewer reads.
The case
Why founders need to be on YouTube
A review or a walkthrough in your category gets watched for years, and the comment underneath it is read as part of the video. People arrive mid-decision, halfway through watching someone else weigh the options. Being the useful voice at that moment outlasts anything that scrolls away.
Evergreen audience
The video keeps working, and so does your comment
A comparison posted two years ago is still the first thing a buyer watches today, and your comment sits under it the whole time. Viewers read the top comments to judge whether the video was fair, so what you wrote is read as part of the material.
A second search box
People search here before they buy
Buying questions go straight into YouTube — this versus that, is it worth it, how do I actually set it up — and people watch someone work through it before they decide. A comment on those videos puts you inside the decision instead of after it.
Objections surface first
Your own comments are the honest feedback loop
The comments on your own videos are where objections arrive first, in plain language, long before they reach a sales call. Answering each one in public turns a complaint into the reference answer, and pinning the best one puts it in front of everyone who arrives next.
Cheapest distribution
Someone else already gathered the audience
Another creator has done the work of assembling people who care about your category and got them to watch for ten minutes. Writing the comment that genuinely helps those viewers costs you a paragraph, and it lands at the exact moment they are trying to solve it.
Getting connected
How connecting YouTube works
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.
- 1
Start from the YouTube account you already have
FounderReply acts on the account you sign in with, under a connection you authorise yourself and can withdraw again from YouTube whenever you like. It never makes an account of its own.
- 2
Hand over exactly one credential — Google OAuth 2.0 (sensitive scope)
A single Google scope covers channel reads, comment writes and moderation, and Google classifies it as sensitive.
Scope requestedlib/connectors/youtube.ts https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl - 3
The agent reads before it writes
Discovery runs on that connection: it finds the YouTube 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.
- 4
You set the dial, per action
Each action on YouTube has its own level, and you can move any of them — including past where YouTube’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
What may run unattended on YouTube
One setting decides whether an action happens by itself: your own level for it, per network. Every action ships at what YouTube'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 | YouTube’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 |
YouTube’s spam policy holds promotional comments aggressively, so every public interaction starts human-gated — no YouTube action defaults to unattended. That default is a dial, and you are told which rule you are crossing before you move it.
The room
Comment sections as long-lived search results
A YouTube comment on a tutorial or review keeps getting read for as long as the video does, which is often years. The audience is people mid-problem, watching someone else solve it. That is a genuinely good place to be useful and a spectacularly bad place to be promotional — YouTube’s spam filters exist mostly because of this surface.
YouTube removes promotional comments aggressively and does it silently — a filtered comment often looks published to its author and is invisible to everyone else. Volume does not just risk removal; it risks removal you cannot see.
What good participation looks like on YouTube
- Comment where the video is genuinely about the problem you solve, not where the view count is highest.
- Assume links will be filtered. Write a comment that is useful without one.
- Never post near-identical comments across videos — that is the pattern the spam filter is built for.
- Reply to people who reply to you. A thread reads as a person; a drop-in reads as an ad.
The gate
On YouTube, you are the one who decides.
YouTube is reached with Google OAuth 2.0 (sensitive scope), 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.
- Acts on the YouTube account you connected, under a credential you can withdraw from YouTube’s own settings.
- Shows you the thread a draft answers, before you approve it.
- Starts every action where YouTube’s own rules put it.
- Names the rule you are crossing, and the account risk, before it saves a looser dial — and records the change as yours.
FAQ
YouTube, answered plainly
Keyword search over the YouTube Data API surfaces videos about the problem you solve, so you are choosing between real videos instead of guessing at a channel. Each drafted comment arrives attached to the video that prompted it, and waits in the approval queue.
Yours. You authorise FounderReply from your own Google account, and every comment and reply goes out under the channel you connected. One scope covers channel reads, comment writes and moderation, and you revoke it from your Google account’s permissions page.
Google budgets the YouTube Data API in units per Cloud project, shared across every user of an application, and a search call costs roughly a hundred times a simple read. That makes discovery on YouTube a genuinely scarce resource rather than a rate limit you can wait out.
Not by default. Every YouTube action starts at human approval, including replies to comments on your own videos. YouTube filters promotional comments aggressively and often invisibly, so an unattended reply loop tends to fail in a way you cannot observe — which is why we leave that default where it is.
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Ready when you are
Connect YouTube and read the first drafts.
The free plan connects one account, and nothing is published to YouTube until you release it.
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