We launched our first product after a decade of consulting /service startups. Will it be useful for you?
We recently launched Jona ( https://jonapr.co )- curated lists of journalists for 40+ categories like Tech, AI, Gadgets, Health, Fashion, Lifestyle, Marketing, etc. Each list consists of 200+ journalists along with contact information. The sweet part: the list costs just $30 - one-time.
We, Mona & me(jit), have been doing startups for almost 10 years now. You might have heard of Promotehour, where we help startups in getting press coverage at an affordable price.
Jona is our attempt to create an affordable alternative to tools like Muckrack, Meltwater, JustReachout, Presshunt - which costs $100+/month.
I would love to hear what you think of it and if it will be useful for an indiehacker like you to get press coverage for your product.
Definitely interesting and interested.
If I hire somebody on fiver at $5/h to scrap journalist email addresses, can he get the same contacts in 3h?
Hey Sam,
Thanks for the question. I guess it would take more than that. He might be able to do that but then filtering the relevant ones from the hundreds of records and collecting the rest of info like Bio, Twitter, Linkedin would take much more time.
I hope it helps.
We do have Personal finance list just in case you would be interested :)
Definitely going to have to dig deeper into this. Thanks for sharing the link.
Edit with feedback: I would like to see a description and perhaps a few publication names for each list so that I can better choose the one that is best suited for my needs. For example, how does the "Tech" list differ from the lists that are for specific tech niches? If I purchased AI and Tech, would there be overlap between the two?
Maybe consider an all-in-one price that would allow access to each niche. Or, a sneak preview price of $5 to view a partial list or a sampling from several lists.
Also, how are you going to prevent people from just purchasing and republishing the lists? Enforcement of a non-disclosure/copyright could become cumbersome.
Thanks, Tonya! Really appreciate it.
Yeah, we are in process of showing samples for each list. Let me if you are interested in any particular lists. Happy to share the samples.
Regarding someone just copying the lists - we didn't really think of it that much. But the lists need constant updating, like every 2 months, so just copying the lists might not work :)
Will look forward to seeing you using the lists :)
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Thanks, James for the feedback. Yeah, we will be creating landing pages for each list which would give them an idea of what to expect.
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Thanks, Alex. Really appreciate it. Will look forward to it.