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brandchirps
7y ago
Yep, different tools work for different people and their different needs. We are looking to fill the gap for those who need a little more than what Google Alerts and F5Bot provide, but at a cheaper price than the next widely known competito
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brandchirps
7y ago
Thanks peteforde, All of these things you mention, I have been thinking of too over the past year of building this out. Most of my time has been spent ensuring the code is strong and bullet-proof to work amazingly well and is reliable. Even
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brandchirps
7y ago
Notifications are daily, but we are adding selections for this for those that want instant or weekly, etc. List of sites and data sources are to large to post here. As far as the problem solving, I will reprint what's on our home page.
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brandchirps
7y ago
I do have some blog ideas in the works. One of which is "what promotion strategy works best" for a SaaS launch as well as one that covers how we do, what we do. I've invested in a few services that submit your SaaS to directo
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brandchirps
7y ago
Running free trials in the past in other projects ( either as an employee or owner ) with no credit card has proven this audience of people hardly upgrades to a paid user. There is a %, but it's so slim and small that it is almost not
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brandchirps
7y ago
Thanks. Will keep a free trial in mind or some sort of demo. Alerts can come as RSS feed or Json that you can ping when you need, or you get a daily email that lists a partial digest of your new results that you can click through to our sit
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brandchirps
7y ago
We only mention 1 competitor on our website and I didn't even want to list them. I only did that so people could understand the query or flow I was discussing, like "competitor alternative" or "competitor vs" type q
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brandchirps
7y ago
F5Bot, from memory, only does a few services correct? You won't get general web data. Google Alerts, I have it and it doesn't pick up a lot of social data. For instance, I have never seen Reddit data come across on my Google alert
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brandchirps
7y ago
Working on video, will post up once done. Thanks for letting me know!
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brandchirps
7y ago
Understandable. I decided to go with a super low price backed with a money back guarantee and option to self cancel to entice users in, rather than a free plan or free demo/trial. My experience in running a prior SaaS showed me that fr
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brandchirps
7y ago
I hope I can help that many people with this service. Thanks!
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brandchirps
7y ago
Got it. Will take note and pull something up in the next few days for you. Thanks for letting me know more info on your request.
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brandchirps
7y ago
Thank you. This was my thoughts and direction for this project as well. To see how it goes.
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brandchirps
7y ago
Understandable. I decided to go with a super low price backed with a money back guarantee and option to self cancel to entice users in, rather than a free plan or free demo/trial. My experience in running a prior SaaS showed me that fr
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Hey, replied to your email and let you know I appreciated the finding. Giving you free access for life later tonight in finding the bug! Thanks
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brandchirps
7y ago
Thank you. Totally get the landing and UX. Wanted to verify this would work before putting more time/money into more. Looks like people are taking interest so will probably hit up a UX guy in the next few weeks.
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brandchirps
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Understandable. I decided to go with a super low price backed with a guarantee and option to self cancel to entice users in, rather than a free plan. My experience in running a prior SaaS showed me that free plans were not all that great at
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brandchirps
7y ago
Yes. Plans are in the works, but only after a few small issues have been fixed and a few more benefits added.
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brandchirps
7y ago
no, sorry.
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brandchirps
7y ago
Thank you everyone. I will try to address all concerns later today once I am back in my office. I was really honored that all of you took interest in this project to leave your comments and thoughts.