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Noob question: Looking at your competitors' traffic with SimilarWeb: They have all ok to low traffic, none of them really growing. So it might be a hard busines
by thinbeige 9y ago
Noob question: Looking at your competitors' traffic with SimilarWeb: They have all ok to low traffic, none of them really growing. So it might be a hard business to grow since a lot is SEO driven/organic.
However, Builtwith is selling some plans which also include SEO related features like keyword reports. I understand that some might pay for latter but there is even more competition in that space.
What I don't get: Who should pay for your stuff? It's of course interesting to see other stacks but honestly it's not a crucial thing. My CTOs and I know what they are doing and of course we like to get inspired but yeah, at the end of the day tons of research, years of experience, debate and the individual use case decide our stack and not what some random website does. Same for design-relates stuff, btw to find a font-face is just a Command-Option-I away.
So no offense, but I am just wondering why you start a business which is already there, which is hard to scale and which is hard to get paid for.
Guess I missed something and happy to hear your view.
- jayfk 9y agoPeople are paying for services like this because it's a valuable tool for lead generation. If you are selling a Wordpress plugin, you don't want to contact website owners that run on e.g Joomla.
- jijosunny 9y agoOur business model will be similar to that of BuiltWith's, i.e selling list of websites using a particular technology. For eg., list of websites using Drift chat (https://www.whatruns.com/technology/drift https://www.whatruns.com/technology/drift) will be a super-useful competitive intelligence for other live-chat startups. Also, we are planning to introduce a predictive sales system which will suggest clients based on their technology adoption. For eg., if a company migrates to Magento, they are a potential client to Magento extension developers.
- thinbeige 9y agoOk thanks and this makes sense, a leadgen tool for BTB sales.
- 3131s 9y agoOr for hackers looking to exploit technologies with known vulnerabilities.
- demonshreder 9y agoThis was the first use case that popped into my head