Accordably

Today, we decided to launch on Product Hunt. After testing our product with multiple users, we feel that we are ready to start promoting Accordably more heavily.

It's been a wild ride and should be interesting to see how the product does today.

Upvotes over on Product Hunt are much appreciated!

It has been an exciting journey that has involved a lot of long nights, but we have officially launched the beta version of Accordably.

The brief sense of relief has passed and the realization of how much we still want to get done is setting in.

We've had a few beta testers already give their feedback and they have brought up some great points that are helping us decide our direction.

As a quick reminder, Accordably is a competitor monitoring tool that tracks website page changes and highlights what social media posts are engaging your competitor's audience.

We'd love to get more feedback, so feel free to give it a test run and we await your brutal honesty!

https://accordably.com/

These past few weeks we've been working non-stop to get our alpha version ready. The day has come and we already have some testers giving us feedback.

It's both exciting because people are actually taking time out of their day to try out Accordably and frustrating because they are pointing obvious things out that we should have noticed from the beginning.

Super thankful for their help!

Content is a big part of any successful marketing strategy, whether it be written, video or visual.

Our first step to our content strategy is writing informative blog posts.

We've just published our first post and now focusing on distributing the content.

Looking forward to seeing the general reception of the guide.

After creating our alpha and receiving good feedback from our testers, we’ve decided to pivot.

Are we crazy?

Maybe. But this was all somewhat part of the plan. We still believe that server-side tracking will play a big part in the future of web analytics, but after discussing multiple scenarios with our newly gained knowledge, none of them fit our goals.

I’m a firm believer in just starting and figuring things out as you go. We didn’t want to be stuck in analysis paralysis, so we picked an idea (server-side analytics) that we both liked and hit the ground running.

We focused on building the parts that we could easily reuse for other apps.

Now, this is where we got to our existential crisis.

We arrived at the point of no return. Do we commit the next year to build this or do we pivot?

Well, as enthusiastic as we are about server-side analytics, our bills couldn’t care less about our enthusiasm. So, we decided it was time to find a new path.

We thought that adding a third co-founder might bring that extra spark needed, but after hearing from some great people, we realized that we had no idea what we were actually looking for.

We didn’t want to give up, but definitely felt defeated.

It wasn’t until we started revisiting previous ideas that one seemed to look a lot better. Maybe it was the beer goggles, but as we started to discuss further, the idea became a lot more attractive.

Accordably is undergoing a complete facelift and we are very excited about our new direction.

Stay tuned for further updates.

PS. Big thanks to our original alpha testers, server-side isn't dead yet, just on the back burner for now.

We've put a lot of work into getting this project off the ground and it's really exciting to have users testing out Accordably.

Big thanks to our Alpha testers for taking the time to try out Accordably. Their honest feedback has been extremely helpful at this early stage and is helping us create the direction of our analytics solution.