📡 5 Intent Monitors

Capture Buying Intent Before Your Competitors

Pre-configured social listening monitors for your niche. Track what people are asking for on Reddit and forums — then surface those products in your recommendations automatically.

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5 Vertical-Specific Intent Monitors

Each monitor defines subreddits to watch, keyword patterns to match, and product categories to map signals to. The intent crawler runs daily and feeds signals into your recommendation engine.

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Skincare & Beauty

Track buying intent across beauty communities

Monitors r/SkincareAddiction, r/MakeupAddiction, r/AsianBeauty. Tracks 'holy grail', 'recommendation', 'dupe' patterns.

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Tech & Electronics

Capture spec-comparison and upgrade intent

Monitors r/BuyItForLife, r/headphones, r/buildapc. Tracks 'best under $X', 'upgrade from', 'vs' patterns.

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Home & Kitchen

First apartment and kitchen upgrade signals

Monitors r/HomeImprovement, r/Cooking, r/organizationporn. Tracks 'just moved', 'kitchen upgrade' patterns.

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Fitness & Supplements

Stack recommendations and training intent

Monitors r/Fitness, r/Supplements, r/running. Tracks 'stack recommendation', 'best protein' patterns.

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Pet Supplies

New pet owner and vet-recommended signals

Monitors r/dogs, r/cats, r/Aquariums. Tracks 'new puppy', 'vet recommended', 'food recommendation' patterns.

How Intent Signals Improve Product Recommendations

Traditional product recommendation engines rely on historical data — what people bought in the past. But what about products people are actively looking for right now? Intent signal monitoring captures real-time buying intent from social media conversations and feeds it into the recommendation algorithm.

When someone on Reddit posts "looking for a moisturizer for sensitive skin" and your store sells skincare, that's a high-intent signal. SellerZoom's intent monitors detect these patterns, match them to products in your catalog, and boost those products in recommendations for the next 30 days.

How the Intent Signal Pipeline Works

Each monitor defines a set of subreddits and keyword patterns. A daily Celery task scans these sources, extracts posts matching the intent patterns, and creates IntentSignal records linked to matching product categories. The recommendation engine includes intent as one of its six ranking signals, so products with recent social buzz get a scoring boost.

Vertical-Specific Tuning

Generic social listening tools produce too much noise because they don't understand product-specific intent language. The phrase "holy grail" means nothing in tech but is a strong buying signal in skincare. Each SellerZoom monitor uses vertical-specific keyword lists tuned to the actual language buyers use in that category.

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