What sources do you monitor?

We start with X/Twitter — where most buying decisions start in public. Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube and more are on the way. One pipeline, every platform.

How is this different from social listening tools?

Most tools count mentions. Intentbus understands intent. “I hate Tool X” and “Looking for an alternative to Tool X” are the same keyword but very different opportunities — we tell them apart.

Will I get flooded with noise?

No. You choose which intents matter for each monitor — buying, complaints, comparisons, or your own custom prompt. Only matched signals become alerts.

Do I need to write search queries?

Never. You add a keyword, handle, or URL — we compile the right search behind the scenes. No boolean syntax to learn.

Can I track multiple competitors at once?

Yes. Create a monitor per keyword or topic. A single mention can match multiple monitors, but it’s never duplicated — one mention, one truth.

Backlog radar · X/Twitter

Track feature requests people tweet. Turn wishes into a ranked backlog.

“Please add webhooks” with 20 +1s underneath is a roadmap vote held in public. “We’d buy if it had SSO” is revenue naming its price. Intentbus catches the direct asks, the quiet wishes and the workaround confessions — with the capability and the count attached.

Watch the asks See the shapes

2-minute setup · Requests, not complaints · Free plan available

The shapes

A request isn’t one post. It’s four priority levels.

A blocked purchase is revenue talking. A direct ask is a vote you can count. A quiet wish is next quarter’s evaluation. A workaround confession is toil you can price. Each shape wants a different response — and only one of them is “log it.”

Blocked purchaseact in ≈ days

Names the missing capability plus the lost outcome — a killed deal, a failed review, a renewal at risk. Revenue is attached. Treat it like a tender, not feedback.

“if it had” · “killed the deal” · “blocker”

Direct askact in ≈ a week

“Please add X” with a workaround described. The +1 replies are votes you can count today. Whoever ships it — or already has it — owns the thread.

“please add” · “wish it had” · “+1 for”

Quiet wishno clock — log + nurture

“Would be perfect if…” with no ask and no timeline. Not a lead today — but the exact backlog input most roadmaps never get. Follow the account; wishes become evaluations.

“would be perfect if” · “just wishing” · “not switching yet”

Workaround confessionact in ≈ days

Someone built the missing feature themselves — cron jobs, zaps, glue code — and says how often it breaks. Maintenance pain is the most honest priority signal there is.

“hacked together” · “breaks monthly” · “should exist”

Bar = backlog priority weight. Blocked purchases outrank every wish — toil-backed workarounds outrank opinions.

The math

480 posts about the category. 31 were backlog.

“Make it better” is not a request. A named capability with a workaround, a +1 thread or a blocked deal is. AI classification is what separates the roadmap from the noise.

Mentions480

everything in the category

Request signals96

AI read a missing capability

Backlog alerts0

named gap + evidence — prioritize now

Illustrative week for one category monitor. Your numbers depend on the category’s volume and your filters.

Asks we watch

“please add”direct vote“wish it had”named gap“if it had” + “would buy”blocked purchase“on the roadmap”timing question“+1 for”countable demand“dealbreaker”revenue attached“hacked together”paid in toil“should exist”table stakes

Up close

Four asks. Four priority levels.

Pick one to see the post as it appeared, what the AI read in it, and the reply that turns a tweeter into a design partner.

Hannah Reyes@hannahreyes_pm · 41m

We’d buy [Competitor] tomorrow if it had SSO + audit logs. Security killed the deal twice now. Anyone know if it’s on the roadmap at all?

10:02 AM · Sep 4, 202613.1KViews

Representative posts shown for illustration — the kinds of requests these monitors catch every day.

Setup

One monitor. Three minutes.

If you can name the capability space, you can watch every public vote for what to build next.

Name the capability space

Type your category or rival — “monitoring”, “SSO”, “exports”. Intentbus compiles the ask families: please-add, wish, workaround, roadmap questions. No boolean to learn.

monitoring@rivalSSO + exports

Keep gaps, mute gripes

Choose which shapes become alerts: blocked purchases instantly, direct asks hourly, wishes in a weekly backlog digest. Pure complaints and praise stay visible but silent.

● blockers — instant● direct asks — hourly○ wishes — digest

Ship the backlog loop

Each alert arrives with the capability, the +1 count and the thread. Reply with status, log the vote, and let the ranking — reach × revenue × toil — order the roadmap.

Capability + countReply with statusRank + ship

Doing it free, by hand?

X search covers the direct asks — but wishes, workaround confessions and +1 counts across 40 threads don’t fit one search, and roadmaps die in spreadsheets. That’s the part that breaks first. When it does, the backlog builds itself here. And if the thread compares two tools instead of asking for a capability, read how to track X vs Y comparison tweets.

FAQ

Asked before you ask.

The honest answers — including how to do this without us.

How do I track feature requests on Twitter without a tool?X search with quoted families: "please add" OR "wish it had" OR "if it only had" OR "+1 for" — plus your category or a rival’s name, minus retweets, sorted by Latest. It finds the direct asks. The failure mode is phrasing: wishes ("would be perfect if"), workaround confessions ("hacked together") and roadmap questions never match those quotes — and counting +1s across 40 threads by hand is a spreadsheet job.How do I tell a real feature request from a complaint?Complaints describe what broke; requests describe what’s missing. The test is the fix: if shipping a capability resolves it, it’s a request ("no SSO, deal died"). If better service resolves it, it’s a complaint ("support takes a week"). Hybrid posts exist — "your CSV export is broken AND scheduled sends don’t exist" — classify the ask, not the mood, and route each half where it belongs.What counts as backlog-ready versus a casual wish?Three filters: a named capability (not "make it better"), evidence of cost (a workaround, a killed deal, +1s from others), and a reachable author (a real user with a real stack). "SSO killed the deal twice" is backlog-ready. "Would be cool with AI or whatever" is a lurk — log it, don’t roadmap it.How should I reply to a feature request thread?Status, not sales. Say whether it exists, when it ships, or what the workaround is — with a link to docs, never a demo gate. "Resolved webhooks are native here — payload docs in one link" beats any pitch. If you don’t have it either, say so and note the ask publicly; requesters remember who listened when the roadmap finally covers them.How do I prioritize 100 requests into a roadmap?Score each on reach × revenue × toil: how many distinct authors asked, whether any named a blocked deal or renewal, and whether they pay maintenance for a workaround today. A thousand +1s with no money attached loses to three blocked purchases. Deduplicate ruthlessly — "SSO", "SAML login" and "Google Workspace auth" are one item wearing three coats.Can I track feature and integration requests automatically?Yes. One monitor per category or rival — Intentbus compiles the phrase families, catches wishes and workaround confessions keyword search misses, classifies each match as feature_request vs complaint vs noise with AI, and alerts with the capability and the thread attached. Posts matching several monitors are stored once and fanned out, so rival and category counts never double-count.

The roadmap is being voted on

First useful status wins the builder.

Someone is describing your missing feature — and its workaround — this week. The watch starts before lunch: the next “please add” finds you with the count attached, while the thread still votes.

Watch the asks Back to Intentbus

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