LeadHunter USA VS ShellNewHandler

LeadHunter USA's answer

Against keyword-alert tools like F5Bot, Syften, KWatch.io and Google Alerts: those were built for founders and marketing teams watching Reddit, Hacker News and X for brand mentions. They do not cover the local Facebook groups where homeowners ask for a plumber, an electrician or a roofer, and they send email digests rather than a phone alert while the job is still warm.

Against lead marketplaces like Angi, Thumbtack and HomeAdvisor: they charge $30 to $100 for a single lead and sell that same lead to several contractors, who then race each other down on price. LeadHunter USA is $75 a month flat — unlimited leads, no per-lead charge, no bidding, and LeadHunter USA does not sell or resell leads.

It was built by a working plumber for the trades, not adapted from a marketing tool.

LeadHunter USA's answer

Independent contractors and small crews in the local service trades across the United States: plumbers, electricians, HVAC technicians, roofers, painters, handymen, landscapers, carpenters, masons, cleaners, pest control, pool service, garage door, appliance repair, mobile mechanics, chimney sweeps, tree service, window installers, general contractors and EV charger installers. Twenty-five trades in all, with more than 190 job types underneath them.

The typical user is a one-to-ten-person business that already belongs to several local Facebook groups but cannot sit and watch them all day. Most have paid for leads from Angi, Thumbtack or HomeAdvisor and want the same jobs without the per-lead bill.

LeadHunter USA's answer

The desktop scanner is an Electron application for Windows and macOS. The mobile apps for iOS and Android are built with React Native and Expo. The web dashboard and marketing site run on Next.js, deployed on Vercel. Data, authentication and scheduled jobs run on Supabase (PostgreSQL). Lead filtering uses Anthropic's Claude models to judge whether a post is a real job request before it becomes an alert. Payments run through Stripe and transactional email through Resend.

LeadHunter USA's answer

LeadHunter USA is used by independent contractors and small crews rather than large companies, so there are no enterprise names to list. These are the trades it serves:

• Plumbers
• Electricians
• HVAC and AC technicians
• Handymen
• Roofers
• Painters
• Landscapers and gardeners
• Tree and land clearing crews
• House cleaners
• Carpenters
• Pest control
• Photographers
• Chimney services
• Garage door installers
• Pool service
• Masonry and concrete
• Pet sitters and dog walkers
• Mobile mechanics and auto repair
• Window installers
• General contractors
• QuickBooks ProAdvisors and bookkeepers
• Appliance repair
• Epoxy coating
• Refinishing and resurfacing

LeadHunter USA's answer

LeadHunter USA was built by a plumber. He spent thousands of dollars on lead-generation services that promised good leads and mostly delivered junk — wrong trade, wrong area, or the same lead sold to four other plumbers who all undercut each other.

The jobs that actually turned into work came from somewhere else: a neighbor posting "anyone know a good plumber?" in a local Facebook group. The problem was seeing them in time. By the time he scrolled past one in the evening, someone else had already taken the job.

So he built the thing he wanted — something that watches those groups while he is out on jobs and pings his phone within minutes of a match — and priced it well below what the lead-gen companies charge, because he remembered what it felt like to overpay for promises. It shipped in April 2026.

LeadHunter USA's answer

Most lead tools either sell you a lead or watch public forums like Reddit and Hacker News. LeadHunter USA watches the place homeowners actually ask for a contractor: the local Facebook groups they already belong to.

When a neighbor posts "anyone know a good plumber?", the contractor's phone buzzes within minutes with the post and a link straight to it. An AI filter reads every post first, so what arrives is a job request and not a recommendation thread or general chatter.

It runs read-only. A desktop app on the contractor's own machine reads their own logged-in session — it never posts, comments, messages or joins groups on their behalf.

And the lead itself is not the product. There is no per-lead charge, no bidding, and LeadHunter USA does not sell or resell leads. Alongside the alerts, LeadHunter USA CRM is free, and LeadHunter USA Payments lets customers pay an invoice by card.