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Exploo.com
The YouTube for teams - A place where your team can manage and share their knowledge.
Looking forward to your ideas. 🙂🔥
I'm attaching some posts that you can open and discover keywords to search further and to write the author and commentators to get feedback from them(or sell the product).
If you can't find what keywords to look for, you may try to find competitors first(like Bloomfire, Confluence, Notion). Then, search for the competitor's mentions. Or, look for posts/comments that mention "knowledge base", "knowledge sharing", etc. that people may use.
This is so great. I already started following your advice and using the tool https://olwi.xyz/ is already one of my highest priority things for later this week. I will see how it will help me find some people on Reddit.
Thank you so much for your help. 🙏🏼
Thanks! Ping me anytime if you need help.
komonitor.com
Simple website uptime monitoring and alerting. Basically an alternative to UptimeRobot and the like. Still very much in MVP stage.
I wasn't able to find people's requests on such tools, maybe because there are plenty of them. I found this post and a poll about uptime tools usage.
What I may suggest doing is to write directly to at least the author of the post and ask to try out your product. Also, you may write with such a request to people that are active on /r/devops and /r/webdev.
There are also angry users for your competitors' products, like here - multiple users you may PM.
Some people from the WordPress community ask though about such tool here.
What you may do also is create posts in subreddits where website owners hang out. What posts: some valuable thing you've learned/done with your tool. But not spammy or promotional. You may even just ask what people use for website monitoring, they'll reply and you may PM them with an inquiry to try out your tool.
rulebox.io
We're not quite ready for users just yet, but we're looking for people who are happy to give it a go once it goes live.
Rulebox lets you decouple business logic/decisions. It allows you to define business decisions - in a low-code way.
An example of this might be, a payroll system with different rules for different clients. Whether to pay someone a weekend rate, dock pay for lunch breaks, pay more for (parts of) shifts after 8pm, for example. Instead of hard-coding this, the rules are written and managed in Rulebox.
I'm afraid I still don't understand the problem you solve. Could you give me more examples and how does it work?
Hi @v8ever 👋
Thanks for chatting - our first priority now that we announced Rulebox is finding out what people's first reactions are, and if/where they 'get stuck'. It's clear to us that our teaser page is pretty, and received some sign-ups, but that a lot of you have questions about the product.
So here goes:
Every software project uses settings, right - levers and dials as it were, that your team (or your users) operate to configure it.
And at some point you need more than basic settings - you want decisions to be flexible, and this is called Business Rules, or flexible business logic.
So you write some dynamic code, that runs
if..then,and..or,if..everyrules - maybe you generate SQL on-the-fly, or maybe you parse some config structure in real-time, or maybe you even generate code.The problem is, these home-grown solutions are limited, or require a huge amount of time and effort to do well. Think of these considerations:
With Rulebox, you define entities and rule sets that operate on those entities. They can filter them, tell you if they match rules or not, or transform them into result sets.
They are type-safe - you cannot write a rule that causes a runtime error.
They are tested - you write unit tests in Rulebox that validate that your rules work as expected
They are versioned and authored - you can separate rule editors from rule approvers, and make sure draft rules don't just get published
They compile to native code, and run in the cloud - you just send matching objects to our execution API endpoints, and we run the rules
The rule edits and the rule executions are audited - so you can run reports and see who did what, or how often rules ran and for how long etc.
Hi! It seems like a...programming? Business rules that can be automated are switched from verbal notation to machines. Hence, we write code to automate something and outsource the work to computers.
That's the nature of programming. Your code is as good as you've written it.
It depends on how one has programmed the thing.
The other points can also be answered with "it depends on how you've programmed it". To me, you describe a platform that allows you to deal less with programming and allows to automate some parts of it. So...a low-code platform?
Hi @v8ever, yes exactly, it's a low-code solution - you still write business logic, but you don't code it up in Go, JS (etc). And of course benefit from the work we've put in to give you versioning, publication, tests, audits, reporting etc.
Now - I've been hesitant to use the term "low-code" because we specifically solve the use case of business rules, vs more generic low-coding tools.
We'll do some keyword analysis , I'd like to know how people respond to this term.
Could you clarify your USP among low-code platforms? They don't necessarily help one to tackle visual programming(UIs), but as well are full backend platforms where one can automate "business rules".
Thanks for spending the time on this, btw!
More useful would be for me to explain the USPs of Rulebox vs tools like Decisions.com and InRule, which are enterprise tools that solve the same problem.
The key USP is that Rulebox is accessible and easy to use, and we aim for a simple SaaS subscription model - vs the enterprise level sell of the others. We focus on solving the biggest headaches of processing business rules, which are the management and oversight, while keeping costs low.
(Generic low code platforms like Mendix of course offer low-code solutions to the provisioning / deployment of UI screens, reports, and back-end queries so you don't have to go through the donkey work of coding up web/mobile apps when all you want is basic input/output. Some of these do have sweet workflow and/or configuration options but they don't actually solve the problem of managing business rules)
I guess I didn't get all the idea except it's a low/no-code tool for businesses, not enterprises. Here are some posts from people mentioning such tools, it's where you might engage to provide insights on how to do smth better/differently and maybe suggesting your tool:
Since I don't fully understand your product USP, I researched some of your competitors(I hope they are).
In those posts and comments you may find people who would be interested in trying out your platform(PM them or reply in the threads).
That's amazing, @v8ever! I am impressed that you genuinely spent the time researching this. I'm new to IH but if this is indicative of engagement level then it really is a much more useful channel than other groups out there.
I briefly scanned those links. And in fact it's given me a helpful thought already. I didn't really think of Rulebox as a competitor to, say, PowerApps, but it could be an alternative to low coding platforms and their all-or-nothing approach. I'll give the a better read this evening.
Thanks for your help and the time you spent on this. 😍
You're welcome!
Yes, your product may not be the same as <name some similar tool>, but that's where you could see what people that use <X> talk about it. What do they like and not, what do they really need, and how it all turned out with <X>.
Low/no-code is popular right now because people want to get results faster and w/o being a tech person. They want to work on a product and not some build/deploy/pick a DB stuff. Yet all such platforms provide various functionality and solve that problem differently.
That's where you could attract customers from other tools. And there are communities where people don't know yet they can try low/no-code. For example, a person that worked 20y in some non-tech field and wants to start her own business because she gained a lot of expertise. She doesn't care about tech, she wants the stuff done. And she may ask questions on how to do that on /r/Entrepreneur, /r/startups, /r/smallbusiness, /r/EntrepreneurRideAlong. That's where you could "catch" such people and reply how to do it!
You can try my tool that simplifies the search directly here, it has a free tier. If you need more help, let me know(e.g. devising search queries may be difficult for the first few times).
https://bowwe.com/
NoCode/LowCode website builder with drag&drop functionality, to create websites/landingµ pages/ portfolios & online CVs.
Hope I can still get your ideas!
Enrichly.io
Enrich prospect email lists with direct dials for sales outreach. Pay-as-you-go credit system. Bulk CSV processing. Built on Bubble.
https://dqbui3295.gumroad.com/l/RyGWZ
My project is a database of 50+ profitable products built with No-Code and a comparison of 13 No-Code tools. A number of people here and on other platforms such as Makerpad and Reddit have asked how successful products built with No-Code really are, and how to select No-Code tools for their ideas. I'd say my target users are either non-technical people looking to build their ideas or No-Code platform founders.
collideborate.me
Consolidated lyrics and chords with YouTube audio reference for church Band practice.
It allows also for each member to collaborate like correcting lyrics or chords so they are all consistent before the rehearsal.
https://nonfik.com/nonfik
½ community marketplace for valuable business freebies (downloadable resources like ebooks/guides/whitepapers). ½ social e-reader app, where users can collect, review, and comment directly on those books, either publicly or privately. Both publishers and readers can create accounts and interact across the platform.
We're launching the app beta this Monday, so it isn't live yet!
Hi Mekkie. Your platform has many options to be seen on Reddit. For example, people in the Sales books with more content than fluff? want to find some good sales books. You might write the comment with some book recommendation with a link to your service, or/and some self-promotion. Also, you may PM those commentators directly and get some feedback and maybe users. As well as in the Best book on sales for young fella trying to get somewhere in life! post.
The same technique may be applied to other topics for books recommendations:
And other such topics.
The other technique you may try yourself is to publish book summaries on the relevant subreddits (like /r/sales, /r/marketing, /r/Entrepreneur, /r/EntrepreneurRideAlong, etc.) with putting a link to your service(maybe in the comments to not attract moderators' force to flag the posts). Thus, people get value and may want to see other books on your platform.
excellent, really appreciate this!! I'm looking into those threads right now and will def keep up on the book recommendation posts.
I've tried to avoid linking whenever possible for that exact reason you mention. in your experience, is it pretty much safe to add the link as a reply or is it better to naturally work it in as a hyperlink in the post itself?
finally, saw your product mentioned in another comment; would you mind explaining a little bit the uses of KW tracking VS the search credits 🙏
It depends on the subreddit. Usually, the rules are the same: no self-promotion. It's fine to include some links in your post if they add more context. Yet some moderators consider any links to your product as self-promotion even if your post may collect many upvotes and brings value to the members. It's not ok from their side to ban you, however, I got banned in some subreddit(a great post that helps people, but included a link to my newsletter to "read past posts").
You might do the following:
The general rule is to add links if they add more value, but it really depends. I'd include links in a post itself if I'd make a list of some articles or services and may include mine too. In this way, it looks like a list of helpful things.
If you reply to a comment, you may include your link if it fits the content and adds more value. If you're in doubt, add a few services, like you're doing a recommendation list, where put multiple links and one to your thing.
Also, moderators and other people may take a look at your profile to see what comments(and posts) you did. Are they all with some kind of self-promotion?
Of course! Keywords tracking feature allows you to monitor your search queries and give you new mentions. It's the same if you were looking at some subreddit for some keyword periodically to see if anyone made a new post. So, it's an automated thing to keep track of new mentions in posts(or/and comments) in some subreddit or in the whole Reddit.
When to use it? You want to reply to comments that mention "book recommendation", for example. Or, reply to posts that mention "books". You want to be the first who see something.
Search credits are the term at Olwi to measure the amount of search queries a user does(how many searches you make). Currently, the free tier allows 150 search credits per month: if you use the smart search in Olwi, it means 75 searches, because it looks for posts and comments together, so 2 queries per time.
There's the advanced search where you may use a lot of filters and narrow your search to posts or comments, so 1 search query per time, thus 150 searches available.
Do those answer your questions? Maybe KW tracking and search queries were something else you wanted to understand.
If you will be trying out the tool and 75..150 searches aren't enough, ping me, I increase the limits.