If you make things
You want a community, not an audience — and that means somebody getting an answer when they take the time to ask. Respondu keeps you present in your own comments on the nights when there are more of them than there is of you.
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Reply to everyone, in your own words.
Respondu reads every comment on your channel, works out which questions keep coming up, and writes replies that sound like you. You read them and press post. And when a reply needs something only you know, it asks you instead of making it up.
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Review
on “Live at the Roundhouse — full set”
Are you playing live somewhere in UK?
Written from what you told us on 12 August: three UK dates in October.
We are — three UK dates in October: Bristol, Manchester and London. Tickets go up on the site this Friday, and I will pin a comment here when they do.
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Waiting for you
Why this exists
You are not answering forty people. You are answering four questions.
Your comments are the best thing about your channel. They are also the thing you quietly fall behind on — forty a night, most of them the same handful of questions, answered last thing in the evening starting with the newest. The people who have been waiting longest are the ones who never get a reply at all.
And somewhere in all of it is what people actually thought of what you made. You do not have time to read four hundred comments to find out.
A generic AI reply fixes the wrong half of this. Writing the sentence was never the hard part. The hard part is that the answer lives in your head, and nothing else has it.
Who it is for
If you sell things
Every unanswered “does this fit a 15-inch?” or “how long is delivery to Ireland?” is somebody who nearly bought something. Those questions repeat endlessly and the answers barely change, so answering one properly answers it for everybody who asks it next.
How it works
Connect your channel
Sign in with Google and connect a channel you own. You can give it permission to read only — it will still write drafts, it just will not be able to post them. You can change your mind later, or never.
It reads everything
Every comment gets read and sorted: what is a question, what is praise, what really needs you. Anything that needs a fact only you have is set aside as a question for you rather than guessed at.
You approve replies
Drafts come to you oldest first, written in your own phrasing. Change anything you want and post it, or throw it away. Either way, it learns something about how it is doing.
What makes it different
Four promises, and what stands behind each one.
It would rather ask than guess
Ask it something only you can answer — your prices, your delivery times, whether you are touring — and it does not have a go at it anyway. It stops and asks you. You answer once, and everybody waiting on that same question gets a reply.
Why you can rely on that It can only use facts you have given it yourself. There is deliberately no way for it to pick something up from somebody else’s comment and repeat it as though it came from you.
It only replies on its own once you trust it
Every channel starts with you approving every single reply. It can earn more freedom, slowly, by being right — and you can hold it back or switch it off whenever you like.
Why you can rely on that It is judged on what you actually do. Rewrite a draft before posting and that counts against it; post it as written and that counts for it. It cannot mark its own homework, and no good run can push it past the limit you set.
It will never reply twice by mistake
One comment, one reply. If a reply goes missing on its way out, Respondu goes and checks whether it actually arrived instead of just sending it again.
Why you can rely on that The same reply appearing twice under a stranger’s comment is embarrassing, public, and not something we could undo for you. We would rather occasionally miss one and tell you than ever risk that.
It sounds like you, not like a bot
Drafts are written from replies you have actually written before, so they come out in your phrasing — not the polite, faintly robotic voice everybody has learned to spot.
Why you can rely on that It only ever learns from replies you wrote yourself. It never learns from its own drafts, so your voice cannot slowly drift into something that is not yours.
Nothing reaches your audience that you have not read. That is the setting everybody starts on, and it is one you can stay on for ever.
You are in charge
You decide how much it is allowed to do.
Five settings, and every channel starts at the bottom. You choose per channel, so trusting it on one is not trusting it everywhere — and if it gets something wrong, it moves back down on its own.
- Off
- No drafts at all. It still reads and sorts your comments.
- Drafts only Where everybody starts
- It writes replies and waits. Nothing goes out until you press post.
- Approve in batches
- Clear a whole set of drafts at once instead of one at a time.
- Post after a delay Not available yet
- It posts on its own after a pause long enough for you to stop it. It has to earn this first, and we have not finished building it.
- Fully hands off
- It gets on with it, while still sending you the occasional reply so it keeps being checked.
Where we honestly are
A product that promises not to make things up should not start by overselling itself. So, plainly:
- It works, and it has been used on a real channel. Somebody asked about UK gigs, it refused to invent an answer and asked the creator instead, and the reply it wrote went out word for word. A small beginning, and a real one.
- You would be one of the first. No customer quotes on this page, because there is nobody to quote yet.
- Replies that post themselves are not ready. The setting is real and the thinking behind it is done, but it is not finished. For now, everything waits for you.
- There is no “what are people saying” screen yet. It reads and sorts every comment today, but the page that shows you the whole picture is still being built.
- YouTube only, for now.
- Sign-in is waiting on Google’s review, so we add people by hand. That is the real reason there is a queue.
Be present in your own comments again.
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