Building an app for searching Twitter users

Hi, I'm Sumit, a relatively newcomer to the indiehacker space. I'm building Twips https://app.twips.xyz/, an app for searching Twitter users.

Motivation

First let me tell you how I came up with the idea. The motivation came mostly from my own frustrations and needs, e.g.

• I have faced a lot of scenarios where I wanted to clean up my following list. This usually meant doing it all by hand, going through my following one by one, checking out their profile in a new tab, and then deciding.

• I have also from time to time created a new Twitter account and then copied// moved part of my following list from one account to another. This was especially painful, I had to save the URLs of the accounts I want to copy in a text file and then switching to the other account and then following them from there one by one.

So I thought this can obviously be automated, and can me made into a simple webapp. And if I'm adding these features, why not add some more! So I started building Twips.

Features of the app

Twips lets you apply different filters to a search-engine like interface and get a table of users that you can browse through. The filters are

• Keyword in name or bio
• Followed by a specified user
• Follower of a specified user
• Followers count range, following count range, tweet count range
• Account age// joining date
  etc.

You can also follow, unfollow, block, mute users from the search result etc in the same interface, either one-by-one or in bulk.

Progress so far

I've been working on the development side of things of Twips for almost 2 months for now. And I've been doing it without doing much market research, idea validation, or even a landing page! Mostly because the programming kept me hooked, and I knew at least I'll end up using it for myself.

But before I progress any further, I want to validate the idea, understand if people even want this, and make the app most useful to all the end users, not just me. And for that I need your feedback my friends!

Request

What do you think of the idea? Would you use this app yourself? Would you pay a monthly subscription fee for it? Do you think there's a segment of Twitter users who would use and pay for it?

Which features do you love? Which features do you think are useless? Any features you'd like getting added?

Moreover, the main reason I wanted to share my idea and progress with you guys is because I want your advice, suggestions, and guidance. I'm a newbie so please point out any errors in my thinking, approach, etc.

Looking forward to your comments!!

P.S. You can check out the app @ https://app.twips.xyz/. It's not finished and very much an early beta version.