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Feedback on a tool for niche community marketing (Reddit, Discord, etc.)

by Derek Osgood

Hey Everyone!

Figured this would be helpful to everyone here, so wanted to share Cranny (cranny.ai), a tool my co-founders and I just created as a side project to help you find and reach active niche communities discussing topics of your choice, from Subreddits to Discord channels.

Cranny is kind of like Ahrefs + Hootsuite for niche communities. It helps you search Reddit, (and in the future) Facebook, Slack, and Discord by topic to find communities discussing the things you care about, gives you important stats on community size, growth, and activity, helps identify the top members in the community, and then lets you post to many of them from one place.

In the interim until we have Facebook/Slack/Discord search live, we're also generating custom reports on those channels ad-hoc.

Would love your thoughts and feedback!

Derek Osgood's avatarDerek Osgood
on August 24, 2021
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    Definitely a great idea - I could see myself using this. However, I tried it out and I couldn't find any results after searching multiple terms. I think something is wrong there.

    I would use a product like this given that:

    • It's accurate: the communities listed are actively crawled and updated. The stats are super reliable.
    • It has high-quality search results: the keyword search should be advanced and efficient. It should be able to connect keywords to communities in the right context. Quality of results is #1 here.
    • It has a generous free-tier (initially): I wouldn't pay right off the bat unless I can go through the full user-flow without any restrictions and experience the value for real. Ex: I'd like it if I got like 25 free searches a month (with all features) before it caps me out and asks for an upgrade.

    Great work. All the best!

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    Sounds cool!
    Any chance you're gonna build an API for that?

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      Probably in the future yeah! Although going to take us some time to get there

      Derek Osgood's avatar Derek Osgood
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    Same for me. No results for 'Designers' or 'Developers'.

    Also, those empty scroll bars around each title is kind of disturbing from a UI/UX perspective.

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      Yeah... Mentioned below but we unfortunately found a nasty bug we hadn't caught previously. We're working on fixing it this week, sorry for the false-start!

      Scroll bar thing is a good catch, much appreciated -- that's something that happens on large monitors, we'll get it updated though!

      Derek Osgood's avatar Derek Osgood
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    Hey Derek - I like this idea a lot!
    I just tried this site on mobile and I can’t get any search results even if I type in “safemoon” (the example search)
    Suggestions?

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      Hrm... Seems like that's probably a bug unfortunately (still in a pretty beta-y stage right now). We'll try to fix that and get it updated ASAP!

      Derek Osgood's avatar Derek Osgood
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        Hey Derek,
        I reached out to you on twitter with a fix for this that could help with the search results not showing

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          Thanks! Just responded to you there :)

          Derek Osgood's avatar Derek Osgood
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