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Hey everyone, Scott here from MixRank. Ilya and I would love to hear any questions or feedback (or feature requests!) HN has.

arkitaip 15y ago
I would love to know more about your tech stack? Which language, framework, tool,s libs, etc are you using?
- smilliken 15y ago
  We're self-hosting on Ubuntu with most of our codebase in Python. On the web stack we're using Apache/Python/Pyramid, and for our indexers and data persistence we're using an array of technologies. It's a really interesting big data problem to work on, and if anyone's interested in learning more, we're currently hiring :).
  - arkitaip 15y ago
    Thank you. Any reason why you didn't go with a VPS, AWS or GAE? Because I'm thinking of creating a web app in Python and hosted solutions seem like a good deal.
    - smilliken 15y ago
      If it weren't for our high requirements we'd be on a hosted solution. That being said, we're considering a few hosted options for our future infrastructure.
      - iamelgringo 15y ago
        Use SSD's on dedicated hardware. Don't use EC2 unless you really, really need to spin up tons of instances.
shafqat 15y ago
I tried a bunch of my competitors but for each one, it said "No Active Ads Found." Although I know they have ads running on Google. For example, try Yellowbrix.com. If this actually works for the competitors I want to track, this is an awesome product!
- smilliken 15y ago
  This should probably be made more clear on our site: we're currently indexing AdSense text ads, with image/flash ads and other networks coming soon. YellowBrix, for example, is currently running search ads, but not on Google Display Network. We're confident that we're finding practically every advertiser and AdSense text ads right now, so if you're not able to find any of your competitors in our index then they either haven't tried or weren't successful at it.
- il 15y ago
  We'll be implementing keyword search soon, but for now, a good hack is to: 1. Search some of your main keywords on Google. 2. Look through the organic results and find organic results pages running AdSense. 3. Search the display URLs of advertisers placing AdSense ads on those sites in MixRank.
  - dools 15y ago
    This isn't working for me. I've tried searching "cushy cms", and "web design sydney" and then copying the displayed urls for each of the top ranking google ads and pasting them into the search bar but I'm not getting any results.
speleding 15y ago
I just tried it out and it's very useful (apart from the fact that it show my competitor exactly what I'm doing). As far as I can tell it only works for the US market though, I always find advertising outside the US much harder and would really like the same service there. Any plans to do that?

arkitaip 15y ago

I would love to know more about your tech stack? Which language, framework, tool,s libs, etc are you using?

smilliken 15y ago
We're self-hosting on Ubuntu with most of our codebase in Python. On the web stack we're using Apache/Python/Pyramid, and for our indexers and data persistence we're using an array of technologies. It's a really interesting big data problem to work on, and if anyone's interested in learning more, we're currently hiring :).
- arkitaip 15y ago
  Thank you. Any reason why you didn't go with a VPS, AWS or GAE? Because I'm thinking of creating a web app in Python and hosted solutions seem like a good deal.
  - smilliken 15y ago
    If it weren't for our high requirements we'd be on a hosted solution. That being said, we're considering a few hosted options for our future infrastructure.
    - iamelgringo 15y ago
      Use SSD's on dedicated hardware. Don't use EC2 unless you really, really need to spin up tons of instances.

shafqat 15y ago

I tried a bunch of my competitors but for each one, it said "No Active Ads Found." Although I know they have ads running on Google. For example, try Yellowbrix.com. If this actually works for the competitors I want to track, this is an awesome product!

smilliken 15y ago
This should probably be made more clear on our site: we're currently indexing AdSense text ads, with image/flash ads and other networks coming soon. YellowBrix, for example, is currently running search ads, but not on Google Display Network. We're confident that we're finding practically every advertiser and AdSense text ads right now, so if you're not able to find any of your competitors in our index then they either haven't tried or weren't successful at it.
il 15y ago
We'll be implementing keyword search soon, but for now, a good hack is to: 1. Search some of your main keywords on Google. 2. Look through the organic results and find organic results pages running AdSense. 3. Search the display URLs of advertisers placing AdSense ads on those sites in MixRank.
- dools 15y ago
  This isn't working for me. I've tried searching "cushy cms", and "web design sydney" and then copying the displayed urls for each of the top ranking google ads and pasting them into the search bar but I'm not getting any results.

speleding 15y ago

I just tried it out and it's very useful (apart from the fact that it show my competitor exactly what I'm doing). As far as I can tell it only works for the US market though, I always find advertising outside the US much harder and would really like the same service there. Any plans to do that?