What is new in MentionDrop

If you opened a MentionDrop link from inside the LinkedIn app, Instagram, X, or another in-app browser, then tapped Sign in with Google, Google blocked you with a 403 error. That is Google's policy against OAuth from embedded webviews, not something we could fix on our side.

Now the sign-in and sign-up pages detect the in-app browser, name the app you are in, and tell you to open the page in Chrome or Safari before signing in. There is also a one-tap button to copy the page link.

Every mention card on your dashboard now has thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. Hit thumbs down on the ones that miss the mark, thumbs up on the ones that nail it. The AI takes the hint and gets sharper for that keyword from there on out.

The more you mark, the better it gets at filtering out the noise: the listicles, the aggregator pages, the "10 alternatives to..." posts that tend to slip through.

Two things worth knowing:

1. It only affects future mentions. Existing ones keep their current scores.
2. If your needs change, just keep marking. It adapts.

A common pattern: someone signs up, gets distracted, and never adds a keyword. The product never gets a chance to prove itself.

If you fall into that bucket, you now get a single follow-up email three days after signup with three specific keyword suggestions based on the website you entered during onboarding. One click adds them, and the alerts start flowing.

This only fires once. If you ignore it, that is the end of it.

When MentionDrop drafts a reply for you, it now picks between two modes based on the source of the mention.

Reply mode is for when you are jumping into an existing thread (a Reddit comment, a forum reply, a discussion thread). Drafts skip the formal greeting and read like the next message in the conversation.

Outreach mode is for when the mention came from a blog post, news article, or somewhere else that needs a fresh email. Drafts include a subject line and the kind of opening you would actually use cold.

The right mode is picked automatically. You can still edit before sending.

If you signed up, are still on the free plan, and have not received a useful mention by day seven, you will now get a short coaching email from me.

It covers the most common reasons people stall (keyword too generic, keyword too narrow, missing exclusions) and points to the fix. No upsell, no fake urgency. The goal is to get you to the value, because if MentionDrop never lands a useful mention for you, the upgrade conversation never happens anyway.

The first onboarding step now asks for your website URL. MentionDrop fetches the page, summarises what your company does, and uses that context to suggest keywords that actually fit your business instead of generic guesses.

If you would rather skip it and add keywords manually, you still can. But spending the extra ten seconds gets you a much better starting set.