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Reached 50 registered users!

Today, SocialTracker reached a total of 50 registered users! A very encouraging milestone for me as I'm not actively promoting the product yet.

My main sources of acquiring registered users are:

  1. Google: profile analytics pages are optimized to get found in search engines. The pages rank especially high for a select number of influencers.
  2. Talking about the development of the product on online communities like IndieHackers, MakerLog, ...
  3. My personal Twitter

The next big step is continuing development and get a paid plan out there. This will be the ultimate validation for the product: are people willing to pay for what I can offer? (Hoping I can share the release here soon!)

What are your main sources to acquire users for your product? What works for you? (and what doesn't?)

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    That's great actually I love the website, how you are planning to monetize it?

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      Thanks Kamel!

      I'm planning to monetize SocialTracker by providing even more data with full insight reports. People will be able to unlock a full report for one influencer or brand by paying a small fee. Full reports will contain (on top of the free features):

      • Benchmarks: How does one profile perform compared to similar ones?
      • Audits: Verify whether engagement is authentic.
      • Content analysis: Which tags are used and what time of the day is the content posted.

      Do you think this makes sense? What features would you like to see in a social media analytics app?

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        I don't know what could be good measure of profile similarity and how would you automate that, same thing for authenticity, on my Instagram I get a lot of views from random accounts and I found out later some services called "mass looking" they watch stories to get followers, the accounts are legit but it seems hard to differentiate between real and fake view, if you could pull that off that would be cool, but you should consider adding the classic features that a lot of people want for example:

        • post scheduling
        • see who block me (kinda creepy but people want that)
        • lost followers vs gained
        • people who not following me back
        • deleted likes and comments...

        checkout the app Plann (the founder was on a podcast here)
        also "followers tracker pro" on IOS

        I believe there the potential for this to grow big, a lot of the solutions out there they either very slow, have bad UI, or don't deliver what they promise

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          It's possible to test authenticity in a number of ways. One way of doing so is by looking at the ratio of comments to likes. This ratio is fairly constant for most users, and if something is off it usually indicates fake engagement. (e.g. bought likes) The good thing is that SocialTracker has been live for quite a while, so I have loads of data for making a comparison.

          The "classic" features you mentioned are interesting, but I won't be implementing them soon. Post scheduling would make me a competitor to big tools like Buffer, and competing with them would be hard. Also getting the data for lost followers and others is hard (no official API). It's theoretically possible, but not worth the cost/effort for me at this scale.

          Thanks for the support! If you're interested, I'd be happy to give you free access upon release so you can try it out. (Feel free to message me!)

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            Good luck you doing a great job, yes I would like to have access :)

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    Well done!
    I really like the look & feel of the website.

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      I'm glad you like it!

      It's built upon UIKit, but with quite some customization.

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      Thanks for the support, Jeky. I appreciate it a lot!

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