App ideas channel experiment
A year ago I created a Telegram channel (https://t.me/startupsi) for the purpose of sharing ideas for side projects and SaaS business. I wanted to see how many people will be interested in this, can I build a community that gives feedback on the ideas, discuss them and so on.
Occasionally, I made posts about the channel on Reddit, were answering related questions on Quora. The most traffic constitutes Telegram catalogs (over 50%), Telegram search is nearly 10%.
Some stats:
- The current amount of subscribers is 5350.
- 235 posts were made.
- Audience by gender: 85.6% men and 14.4% women.
- I make 3-7 posts per week.
- Engagement Rate by Reach: 71.4%
- Reach for one post is ~3.8K on average
- Daily reach is ~4K on average
- 70.2% of subscribers were online recently, ~29% were online 2+ days ago.
- 59.35% of subscribers enabled the channel notifications on (when a new post is created, they get a notification).
- On average, the channel gets ~14 new subscribers per day (given 5350 members per year; current stats is about ~40 new subscribers per day for the last month).
- 43% of subscribers are Asian, 16% from Africa, 16% from Europe, 4% from the USA, 21% from other places.
Great work ad interesting stats.
I just joined the channel.
Would you mind sharing how you were able to get all this insightful analytics?
Thanks.
The native Telegram statistics are available for all channels with 1000+ members. There are a lot of insightful data.
But before that, I was(and still) using other services. The one I like the most is https://tgstat.com/ru/channel/@startupsi
For some extra stats like gender percentage and members' online activity, I used the Crosser Bot.
Oh I see. I thought I could get that from their API. I'm looking to build a telegram bot that would generate all these for me, so thought the API could.
Anyways, keep up the good work. I hope it pays off soon, money wise
Telegram has such API to gather the statistics. They have a rich API for different purposes.
Thanks for pointing that out. I think I just found what I'm looking for https://core.telegram.org/method/messages.getStatsURL
Nice, I had a quick peek.
Can people respond to your posts too? Do you know if you managed to help anyone in specific?
And what approach did you take for growing to the the 5k+ members?
Yes, I created a Telegram group to discuss anything posted on the channel. So when something is posted the same post appears in the discussion group automatically and people can discuss it. For some posts, I add an ability to comment (via external services).
Some people ask for advice/feedback there. I'm trying to help where I can.
When the channel was created, I made posts on Reddit to related communities where I described some ideas and told people that I manage a channel where I post the ideas.
It brings me initial traction of 20 people on the first day after a week approximately there were ~50-100 people that allows me to add the channel to Telegram catalogs (where people add their groups and channels). As I say, the catalogs bring over 50% of the traffic. Thus I had a steady stream of subscribers each day.
Occasionally, I made posts on Reddit where I duplicated the ideas from the channel and told people to subscribe if they are interested. As well I was answering related questions on Quora. Approximately, Reddit and Quora give ~2-5% of the audience.
Around 8%-15% of the people come from Telegram search (e.g. "business ideas", "startup ideas", etc.).
As I figured out recently with the Telegram updates, I can see detailed statistics for the channel (extra stats that other services don't provide). It showed me that people search for specific topics so I could post not only ideas(hard to find) but texts too, therefore increasing an audience that comes from the search.