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STEPS TO GET YOUR PAID ACCOUNT 1. REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE 2. WHEN YOU GET TO "STEP 3", WHICH ASKS YOU FOR PAYMENT, POST IN THE THREAD WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
by zackattack 17y ago
STEPS TO GET YOUR PAID ACCOUNT
1. REGISTER ON THE WEBSITE
2. WHEN YOU GET TO "STEP 3", WHICH ASKS YOU FOR PAYMENT, POST IN THE THREAD WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
My new website is CustomerFind.com.
Remember my web app HipHopGoblin.com? Well, about a month ago, I wrote up a blog post detailing what I had learned and posted it up on HN [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=824905 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=824905]. In part, I explained how I had used Twitter to promote the website: I scanned for artists mentioning certain keywords, and then auto-followed them. This got me a lot of exposure, and a lot of gratitude from people who were glad to find the site.
Then I got contacted by the CEO of a web site, asking for me to sell him my scripts. "Sure," I said. "I can package them nicely and include the MySQL db-creating scripts."
"No, no," he refused. "I want a hosted solution." And thus was borne CustomerFind.com.
After a month or so of work, this is iteration #2 in my startup, this time having a paying customer from day 1. And I'm offering a 7-day free trial for all HN readers. Just reply to this post with your email address and I'll hook you up.
All feedback and criticism welcome, as well as suggestions for future directions of the product. I'm thinking of evolving it into a CRM tool, so you can communicate with the people who have followed you back (and are clearly interested in your product). But I don't want to write it unless I know that many will pay me for it ;)
Again, all comments welcome. Thanks for taking a look.
- vaksel 17y agodoesn't twitter ban people for doing this?
- zackattack 17y agoGood question. In my experience, no. There are many other apps that do the same thing, and this one is especially geared towards finding high-quality keywords. In fact, we only follow 25/day, so that we can slowly figure out which keywords work and which ones don't. The ultimate goal is to follow keywords that convert at 20%+, which is easily doable. That being said, Twitter reserves the right to do whatever they want at any time. But this is non-aggressive, and we're discouraging "spammy" behavior.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- zaidf 17y agozaid.farooqui at gmail Would love to give it a shot!
- zackattack 17y agoYou got it. Register, and then once you get to the "submit payment" screen (step 3/3) let me know and I'll update your account.
- zaidf 17y agoDone...I think? After submitting step 1 and giving your app permission, I was brought back to step1.
- zackattack 17y agoLog in and try again. My app never got a pingback from Twitter (for whatever reason). What browser are you using, BTW?
- zaidf 17y agoI now get "Error: that twitter account is already in use." I am using Chrome. (To the dude downvoting this and other random comments of mine, stay classy!)
- zackattack 17y agoNo, I meant try signing in, not re-creating the account
- daveying99 17y agoi'd like to try it too. email: twitter@emoticards.com thanks
- zackattack 17y agoactivated
- simonk 17y agoRegistered.
- zackattack 17y agoactivated
- paulhart 17y ago[REDACTED]
- zackattack 17y agoactivated
- paulhart 17y agoNice, thanks :)
- slig 17y agoThanks!
- zackattack 17y agoactivated
- JimEngland 17y agoThis seems interested, I'd love to help you beta test. jimengland at gmail
- zackattack 17y agoactivated!
- dwynings 17y agoThanks!
- zackattack 17y agoyou're welcome & activated
- bartman 17y agobart at customerfind.the-bart dot org
- zackattack 17y agoactivated
- shafqat 17y agoRegistered - shafqat at newscred dot com. Great idea btw... look forward to trying it out.
- zackattack 17y agoactivated, and thanks
- white 17y agoprokhorenko at gmail.com and we'll see how this works out. :)
- zackattack 17y agoactivated!
- dc2k08 17y ago[retracted]
- zackattack 17y agoDid you go through the registration process yet?
- dc2k08 17y ago[retracted]
- zackattack 17y agoactivated!
- dc2k08 17y agothanks. Is it one twitter account per customerfind account? Also I would love to be able to avoid following certain twitter accounts. Do you think there is a possibility you could add a field to input twitter accounts we don't want to follow? It would be useful to have some fields to follow only twitter accounts tagged with certain locations too, for eg, London, Berkshire, Brighton etc.
- zackattack 17y agoHappy to add this feature for you if you're willing to purchase a paid account. If so, email zackster@gmail.com