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hmmm interesting idea, perhaps i can crawl some websites where people rate all sort of solutions/SaaS. Not sure where i could get a list of SaaS tho, maybe prod

by visox 5y ago

hmmm interesting idea, perhaps i can crawl some websites where people rate all sort of solutions/SaaS. Not sure where i could get a list of SaaS tho, maybe product hunt.

hobofan 5y ago
G2[0] or stackshare[1]. It should be mentioned though that G2 reviews are usually pretty heavily positively manipulated via "Review for Amazon Gift card" schemes. [0]: https://www.g2.com/ https://www.g2.com/ [1]: https://stackshare.io/ https://stackshare.io/
- visox 5y ago
  ah nice nice thx a lot, it will find a way into my list :)
  - gpas 5y ago
    see also alternativeto.net https://alternativeto.net/platform/online/?feature=software-as-a-service https://alternativeto.net/platform/online/?feature=software-... love your project
- dawnerd 5y ago
  Recently tried out g2 and found way too much friction in comparing services. And most of the information was outright incorrect.
- throw_839189 5y ago
  Also Capterra[0] and Trustpilot[1] can be used to find ratings. May be more challenging to find pricing. UPDATE: It seems G2[2] has data about pricing. [0] capterra.com [1] trustpilot.com [2] g2.com
- akudha 5y ago
  Are these sites really that useful? I checked a couple of products on stackshare that I have used. Shallow content. And got prompted immediately with a signup popup, just like Instagram does. According to similarweb, the site gets 1.4M pageviews per month. So I guess the demand is there, I just wish the information was better.
  - hobofan 5y ago
    I use them mainly for discovery, and do my own evaluation on the tools, as the crowdsourced reviews are mostly crap. Stackshare was great in the beginning, but as is the way with every site with crowdsourced reviews, business motives (incentivized/fake reviews) or personal motives (writing shallow reviews for "clout") took hold after 1-2 years (around the same time the added the signup popup).
    - akudha 5y ago
      I tried a semi popular product, it wasn't even listed. And that giant login popup irritated the hell out of me. Why do they need me to login? Are they aggregating this data and selling it or something like that? Lets say we build a better version of stackshare. What would be the things you would look for, as a user (other than honest reviews)? It is near impossible to do a good job of comparing features, even having up-to-date pricing data is hard. So what else can be added to make it useful?
      - hobofan 5y ago
        I've actually spent some time working on a Stackshare derivate focused on Marketing SaaS product for a friend of mine (tough that never ended up launching). For a pure generic SaaS & OSS tools site like Stackshare is, I'm not sure if there is a good business model that doesn't compromise the product. A few possible improvements over Stackshare: - Honest & in-depth long-form reviews. Quality matters so much more than quantity. Even a single in-depth blog post every few weeks would provide more value than the crowdsourced ones you currently find on the site - Openly accessible, and no social/gameification features that nobody needs - Better categories and making it possible for a tool to be in multiple ones (and being able to see it). The structure of the current ones is a mess. E.g. CMake is in "Java Build Tools" but the "C/C++ build tools" category is basically empty with 2 tools. - Better searching/filtering. Kind of connected to the previous point. They have the data (don't know of which quality) of "Tool1 works with Tool2", so you could possibly have a more generic "Build tools" category and then filter by "works with Python". - I don't care much for automatic comparison features, as they often don't yield good results. E.g. Jira often looks good in such comparisions, but you'll still want to bang your head against a wall every time you have to wait for it to load one of it's pages. A good alternative would be a quick overview of key metrics and category-dependent badges, which you can use to form your own opinions. RubyToolbox[0] does a fairly good job of that. [0]: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/pagination https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/pagination

by visox 5y ago

hmmm interesting idea, perhaps i can crawl some websites where people rate all sort of solutions/SaaS. Not sure where i could get a list of SaaS tho, maybe product hunt.

hobofan 5y ago

G2[0] or stackshare[1]. It should be mentioned though that G2 reviews are usually pretty heavily positively manipulated via "Review for Amazon Gift card" schemes. [0]: https://www.g2.com/ https://www.g2.com/ [1]: https://stackshare.io/ https://stackshare.io/

visox 5y ago
ah nice nice thx a lot, it will find a way into my list :)
- gpas 5y ago
  see also alternativeto.net https://alternativeto.net/platform/online/?feature=software-as-a-service https://alternativeto.net/platform/online/?feature=software-... love your project
dawnerd 5y ago
Recently tried out g2 and found way too much friction in comparing services. And most of the information was outright incorrect.
throw_839189 5y ago
Also Capterra[0] and Trustpilot[1] can be used to find ratings. May be more challenging to find pricing. UPDATE: It seems G2[2] has data about pricing. [0] capterra.com [1] trustpilot.com [2] g2.com
akudha 5y ago
Are these sites really that useful? I checked a couple of products on stackshare that I have used. Shallow content. And got prompted immediately with a signup popup, just like Instagram does. According to similarweb, the site gets 1.4M pageviews per month. So I guess the demand is there, I just wish the information was better.
- hobofan 5y ago
  I use them mainly for discovery, and do my own evaluation on the tools, as the crowdsourced reviews are mostly crap. Stackshare was great in the beginning, but as is the way with every site with crowdsourced reviews, business motives (incentivized/fake reviews) or personal motives (writing shallow reviews for "clout") took hold after 1-2 years (around the same time the added the signup popup).
  - akudha 5y ago
    I tried a semi popular product, it wasn't even listed. And that giant login popup irritated the hell out of me. Why do they need me to login? Are they aggregating this data and selling it or something like that? Lets say we build a better version of stackshare. What would be the things you would look for, as a user (other than honest reviews)? It is near impossible to do a good job of comparing features, even having up-to-date pricing data is hard. So what else can be added to make it useful?
    - hobofan 5y ago
      I've actually spent some time working on a Stackshare derivate focused on Marketing SaaS product for a friend of mine (tough that never ended up launching). For a pure generic SaaS & OSS tools site like Stackshare is, I'm not sure if there is a good business model that doesn't compromise the product. A few possible improvements over Stackshare: - Honest & in-depth long-form reviews. Quality matters so much more than quantity. Even a single in-depth blog post every few weeks would provide more value than the crowdsourced ones you currently find on the site - Openly accessible, and no social/gameification features that nobody needs - Better categories and making it possible for a tool to be in multiple ones (and being able to see it). The structure of the current ones is a mess. E.g. CMake is in "Java Build Tools" but the "C/C++ build tools" category is basically empty with 2 tools. - Better searching/filtering. Kind of connected to the previous point. They have the data (don't know of which quality) of "Tool1 works with Tool2", so you could possibly have a more generic "Build tools" category and then filter by "works with Python". - I don't care much for automatic comparison features, as they often don't yield good results. E.g. Jira often looks good in such comparisions, but you'll still want to bang your head against a wall every time you have to wait for it to load one of it's pages. A good alternative would be a quick overview of key metrics and category-dependent badges, which you can use to form your own opinions. RubyToolbox[0] does a fairly good job of that. [0]: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/pagination https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/pagination