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Automated Front Porch Forum Post Monitoring

Every morning, WebRun reads today's Front Porch Forum posts for your neighborhood, finds ones relevant to your business like recommendation requests, drafts a helpful reply for each, creates a Trello card so a teammate can own it, and messages the owner on WhatsApp.

Runs on WebRun · Strict Lockdown policy
Every day at 8:00 AM WebRunorchestrates each step
1 Front Porch Forum find relevant posts
2 Trello card each one for follow-up
3 WhatsApp message the owner
In short

How do I find posts relevant to my business on Front Porch Forum?

WebRun reads today's Front Porch Forum posts for your neighborhood every morning, finding ones relevant to your business like recommendation requests. It drafts a helpful reply for each, creates a Trello card so a teammate can own it, and messages the owner on WhatsApp, so real local opportunities never get missed in the daily forum digest.

  • Relevant local posts get a drafted reply the same morning
  • Every opportunity has a clear owner instead of getting missed
  • Nothing posts to the forum without a teammate's approval

Built for local businesses · real estate agents · home service providers · community organizations

Step by step

What does WebRun do on every run?

The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.

  1. WebRun signs in and gets to work

    Opens frontporchforum.com in a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys.

  2. 1
    Front Porch Forum - find relevant posts
    frontporchforum.com
    WebRun in Front Porch Forum: find relevant posts
    WebRun opens Front Porch Forum to find relevant posts.
    • Read today's posts for your neighborhood forum
    • Find posts relevant to your business, like a recommendation request
    • Draft a short, helpful, non-salesy reply for each one

    Done when Every relevant post today has been found with a drafted reply.

  3. 2
    Trello - card each one for follow-up
    trello.com
    WebRun in Trello: card each one for follow-up
    WebRun opens Trello to card each one for follow-up.
    • Create a card for each relevant post with the drafted reply attached
    • Put the card in your community outreach board
    • Leave the reply as a draft. Nothing posts from the card

    Done when Every relevant post has its own Trello card with a draft.

  4. 3
    WhatsApp - message the owner
    whatsapp.com
    WebRun in WhatsApp: message the owner
    WebRun opens WhatsApp to message the owner.
    • Message the business owner with today's relevant posts and drafts
    • Note how many are still waiting on a posted reply
    • Link back to the Trello board for the full list

    Done when The owner has today's relevant post list on WhatsApp.

Run settings

How is each run configured?

Starting pageWhere Chrome opens at the start of each run
frontporchforum.com
ScheduleRuns automatically on this cadence
Every day at 8:00 AM
DeliveryHow each run's result reaches you
Relevant post list · WhatsApp
OutputWhat each run produces - A Trello card with a drafted reply for each relevant post, with a WhatsApp message to the owner.
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Setup & safety

Secure by default

Connect once, stays signed in

WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.

Your credentials stay in your own private environment - WebRun never stores your passwords.
Strict Lockdown

Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.

Domains ALLOWLIST
Typed input ALLOW
Shell command BLOCK
File uploads BLOCK
Runs in a contained environment More on policies
Good to know

Questions, answered

Will WebRun reply to neighbors on Front Porch Forum for me?

No. Every reply is drafted onto a Trello card for you to review and post. Nothing goes public on the forum unattended.

How does it find posts relevant to my business?

It reads today's posts for your neighborhood forum and looks for ones like recommendation requests or questions that match what your business offers.

Does it try to sell to my neighbors?

No. Every drafted reply is written to be helpful first, not promotional, matching the community, not sales, tone of Front Porch Forum.

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