Promotion risk score
A 0-100 risk score across title hype, CTA timing, process evidence, tone, self-promotion, and disclosure.
Tool task
Community Post Risk Checker
Run a pre-post risk review before publishing: see which paragraphs feel like ads, whether the CTA belongs in the body, comments, or nowhere, and what real process evidence is missing.
Check whether a community post reads like an ad
Paste a draft from any generator or your own notes. The checker scores promotion risk, flags risky paragraphs, and recommends where the CTA belongs before you post.
Your risk report will appear here
Paste a real draft with enough context. Short samples and placeholder text are intentionally rejected.
What the checker returns
Paragraph flags
Specific body sections that look like self-promotion, early CTA, or product marketing to community readers.
CTA placement
A recommendation to keep the CTA out, move it to comments, place it late, or share it only if asked.
Revision plan
Concrete edits that make the post feel more like a real founder story and less like an announcement.
Use it before Reddit and Indie Hackers posts
- Review drafts for r/SaaS, r/indiehackers, Indie Hackers, founder forums, and small niche communities.
- Catch the common failure mode: the post is useful in your head, but reads like a launch announcement to everyone else.
- Turn the post back toward a real process: what you tried, what failed, what changed, and what you are asking.
- Decide whether the link belongs in the body, first comment, a reply thread, or nowhere.
It reduces risk; it does not guarantee approval
- The checker is a heuristic pre-post review, not a Reddit or Indie Hackers moderation engine.
- It should not be framed as a way to bypass platform rules or hide commercial intent.
- The safest internal Tomako workflow is still automatic: generated posts should pass this kind of check before the user sees them.
- The public tool exists for external drafts, competitor copy, and founders who already wrote something elsewhere.
Why this works as an acquisition page
- Search intent is problem-aware: users already fear that a post may look like self-promotion.
- The tool gives immediate value without requiring users to understand Tomako's full workspace first.
- It creates a natural bridge from public SEO traffic into Tomako's community post and build-in-public workflows.
- It is more defensible than auto-posting because it helps users respect community norms instead of mass publishing.
Why Tomako should own this
Distribution realism
North American founder communities do not fail because people cannot write; they fail because the writing feels extractive.
Internal quality gate
The same rubric can become a hidden generation gate so Tomako outputs safer drafts by default.
Public trust
A checker teaches the market that Tomako understands community etiquette before asking users to generate posts.
SEO surface
Queries around Reddit self-promotion, post review, and community posting have direct founder intent.
Review standard
- A good post is useful even if the product name and link are removed.
- A safe CTA appears only after context, or in comments, or only when someone asks.
- A credible founder post includes uncertainty, process, constraints, and one specific question.
- A transparent post states the builder or affiliation relationship before asking for attention.
FAQ
Can this guarantee that Reddit will not remove my post?
No. It is a pre-post risk review based on common community signals. Subreddit rules and moderator judgment still decide the outcome.
Should this be inside Tomako's post generator too?
Yes. The public tool is for external drafts and SEO acquisition; Tomako-generated posts should pass a similar gate before final output.
Why check CTA placement separately?
A useful founder story can become self-promotion the moment a signup link appears too early. Placement changes the perceived intent.
Does it support Chinese drafts?
Yes. The interface follows your current locale and the heuristic checks include Chinese and English promotional signals.
Use the checker for an existing draft, then generate a safer build-in-public story when you know what needs to change.