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Built something to help with market research

Hello folks!

Part of doing market research is to find potential competitors and identify gaps that they are failing to deliver on, in my experience growing stockalarm.io this was our key differentiator.

We constantly listened to our users, analyzed feedback posted on competing products, and built the right thing. All the way up to 170K users.

I'm super proud to show off a new tool i've built: Essense.io

With Essense, you can simply paste the urls of your potential competitors and identify gaps in their offerings. With just a few clicks you'll have generated actionable insights in minutes rather than days.

Curious to hear what ya'll think! Especially around what integrations would be useful.

on March 22, 2023
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    Congrats! its awesome

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      Thank you! Let me know if there's anything you feel is missing :)

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    Wow this is a really great tool! I just find the free usage very limited, it is also not possible to remove sources. Some Sources don't work I guess?

    But besides that I really love it!

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      It costs quite a bit of $$ to run it against large sets of reviews so i've got to limit the free tier somehow.

      You can remove sources from the "Analysis" page, will add it to the sources page too.

      Happy to hear you like it! DM me on twitter and i can give you a promo code for 50% in exchange for your feedback. I'll be adding a ton of new features soon.

      https://twitter.com/mynameisyahia

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    Congrats! thinking about the tool for physical products would be nice to get feedback from Amazon! nowadays you don't get feedback from there do you?

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      Actually i've been thinking about adding amazon/walmart/etc in soon. I've already got the infra to support it and just need to build it out. Add me on twitter and i'll reach out once it's done?

      https://twitter.com/mynameisyahia

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    I think it's a super intresting idea! Would love to test it out, in a demo or like others said with a video explaining a little more what type of info it brings up.

    Congrats!

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      Hello! Added the video to the main site :) Let me know your thoughts!

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    Very interesting concept! I agree with @rohini_ here, video demonstration would be very helpful!!!

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      Completely fair point! Will add it in. Thanks!

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    Hey, could you perhaps add a video demonstration of your product or offer a free trial before sign-up? It seems too much of a commitment to give my mail address without knowing exactly in what ways the product would help me.

    This seems super helpful, so I'm looking forward to see you grow :)

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      Just added it btw :)

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      Great feedback! Will add in a video.

      There's a free plan btw, up to 500 pieces of feedback analyzed per month :)

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    Hi there, just tested it out and it works great! Pricing is a bit weird for me. If I were serious about analyzing my competitors the limit of 5000 is not enough. Also a monthly plan doesn't make sense to me. I'd simply want to buy credits.

    Monthly plan would make sense for existing businesses that want to analyze their own business and their competitors. If you want more feedback feel free to hit me up on Twitter @JopHabraken

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      Hey! So tbh the pricing is still kinda up in the air, here's how i came up with it:

      • Found the most popular competitor
      • Offer 2-3x the limits for half the price

      Credits is definitely an interesting call too, thanks!

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    Very cool idea! Would love to combine the feedback from multiple sources