Exploding Topics

@joshahowarth this is amazing! I was about to suggest doing the trends by categories but you have already done it. People working in fast paced industries like Finance and Legal could find this helpful.

Is there a way you could showcase the traffic and growth for a list of keywords and maybe how many websites have mentioned it? Again people in finance and legal might want to keep an eye out for certain keywords and when the traffic spikes, might want to dig deeper to see why the spike has occurred and make use of the opportunity.

Could be a useful tool for businesses to check their new competitors in the market too.

how did you use Facebook groups to grow? What strategies worked for you?

Love this

Congrats Josh! Once you hit 100k whats the current front runner for monetisation?

You've built an amazing product. I've used insights from your newsletter to decide what markets to enter next or what products to promote. When asked about what newsletters to subscribe to? I've recommended yours. Congrats on crossing 50K and I'm quite positive that you will cross 100K mark too.

That's great news, congrats Josh!!

Congratulations Josh. Been following you since last June IIRC. You have done awesome work.

Do you mind sharing what us the open rate currently?

Congrats on the success! 🍾 Do you know what your average CPL (cost per lead) on Facebook was/is?? I'm currently promoting my newsletter and got it down to around $0.60 per signup...no idea if that's good or not 🤷🏻‍♂️

What was the effective cost per subscriber from FB? How's the churn been on those?

Congrats!

Great stuff.

You got one more - subscribed.

Is Brian one of the founders?

Very awesome!!

Hi Josh, can elaborate more on say sharing on reddit or indiehacker initially? How did you pitch? Link to those posts last year?

Thanks!

Big congrats and thanks for sharing the journey
You mentioned you have used other newsletters and other people's marketing channels.
I wonder how you approached them and convinced them into promoting your product: what did you offer in exchange ?

Thanks for sharing! Did you have to pay to promote to Backlinko's audience? Would appreciate it if you could tell us!

Very impressive growth, you’ll blow through 100k subs soon!

This is super growth @jhowarth15. Major congrats.

Thank for sharing!
Did you use PPC on Twitter or it grew organically?

Firstly, thanks for posting details about your milestones.
I am launching a newsletter for bootstrappers: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/the-bootstrapping-guide

It would be great if you could look into it and suggest some tips on growing my initial subscriber base. I will really appreciate it 🙂

Congratulations! And thanks for the detailed milestone, explaining how you grew it

Nice to see this!

Well done.

Just wow. I remember when you posted here on IH back then (the project had another name I think?). What’s your plan to make it profitable?

Congrats -- super clean UI and useful data!

I would've called it FOMO 😂

Thanks for sharing! Congrats!

@jhowarth15 is there any plans to monetize this?

@jhowarth15 just wanted to say amazing job and amazing product! This is something every IndieHacker needs in their toolbox. I was using UberSuggest, but now I'm going to start using Exploding Topics. Thanks for the upload!

This is nice work Josh! And from a local IH to myself (just down the road in Radcliffe here).

Congratulations! Right now am working on passportlist.co and will be very grateful to get your feedback on the idea and the landing page. Thank you

Awesome new Josh 🤗
What you going to do next?

Well done man! Love it and just upvoted it on PH

Congrats, Josh. Really pleased for you!

Fantastic stuff Josh. Very inspirational

Congrats Josh!

Congratulations Josh! I saw this on PH and thought it was an awesome tool. Well done. :)

Awesome story bro! In less than 2 minutes I've seen you in 3 places: my mailbox (Brian Dean newsletter), Product Hunt and here. You're killing it! Congrats 🔥

Awesome write up, thanks for sharing - and congrats 🎉!

wow, congrats! Pieter was just telling me about this recently.

I think we are all interested in how much you got for it 😀

Congratulations!

Fantastic. Just read the medium post, thanks for being so open about the whole process and best of luck going forward!

Oh awesome. Really chuffed for you man. Big congrats

Wow - huge - congrats!!

Product looks great, refined, and quality. I'm disappointed you let it go as soon as it started getting traction for so cheap, but I'm sure you've considered the strategy behind your decision.

I understand the idea behind "niche-ing" down - to try and get as much market share as possible within a domain you can compete in and then scale from there, but I am skeptical of the "professional bloggers" attack strategy.

I am 100% in agreement with you about,
"The problem is there are so many different potential customers: indie makers like me looking for their next project idea, investors looking for a company stock pick, affiliates seeking the next hot product or people just seeking to feed their curiosity."

I think that is the right direction 100%.

Philosophically, I think a large part of your success is like what Peter levels was saying, once you become big like Brian or he is, you become jaded, and your judgement isn't as great or focused as an up and coming entrepreneur who has to make it or break it in Japan. So trust your instincts!

I gotta say...looking at what you have build here I realised thats the exact reason why I wanna learn how to code...to create something useful in a relatively short amount of time. Thanks...gave me some motivation to keep learning JS.

Plus this is worth a mention: https://explodingtopics.com/topic/indie-hackers 😁

This is absolutely fantastic to hear! Congrats!

Nice one! Congratz! :) Did he take over the product or are you working on it together?

Haven't talked to Brian in a while but it seems he's venturing out of the SEO space. Pretty cool :)

Woohoo - currently number 1 on PH nice job! I love the name... it reminds me of the game Exploding Kittens and everyone loves exploding kittens.

Congratulations pal :)

I like the fresh look/name. Congrats!

Well done thats great, were you activity looking to sell or did it come out of the blue?

Congrats ! Can't wait to read your article :D

Fantastic news. Congrats. Product looks great.

Did I see your ads in unreadit? Looks familiar.

Nice, well done, Josh.

I've always been a huge fan of Brian and his content. Great guy, and always pumps out actionable content.

Looking forward to your acquisition post later today!

PS: Rand Fishkin just tweeted about it, that's a "you made it" in my book! -> https://twitter.com/randfish/status/1201786391060856834

Congrats!

Will you be staying on long term?

I checked the website and the idea and it's super cool!

I cheer you up to continue doing it!!!

PS: When I declared in indiehacker that you were going to start working on it, to "create" the project in indiehackers, did you have to provide an url? or you can create a product without url? Because I still have nothing in production but I want to create the product on indiehackers

Woohoo!
Congrats!
Make sure to share when you're nearing that next milestone so we can give a big 🙌

First time seeing your site. Nifty!

If you're looking to segment users, I think one option could be (during or right after signup) a simple question and a dropdown. Especially if you can highlight a real benefit to them from doing this.

Also, if all you want is to understand more about what people have signed up so far, mailing them a question (possibly linking to a super-brief questionnaire) could be helpful. Simple user research. You could pull that into your CRM.

Not aware of any tools or APIs that do automatic segmenting reliably. That said, there's plenty of tools out there I haven't personally tried. :)

That’s awesome!! Could you share how you got your first 100 subscribers?

Clearbit does what you are looking for but I don't how much it will cost you. It can be extremely expensive.

That's a nice number! What has been working best for you?

Rhetorical q: Why is 'Popeye's Chicken sandwiches' trending?

When I heard about that a few days ago, I was enamored with it. It's so interesting to me. Like, HOW did it all of a sudden just blow up? I watched YT videos and did a bunch of googling.

I would love to learn more about that the why from these trends, from a "hacker" perspective. Kinda like Marketing examples.

Could be an easy way to create content. You have the data.

Great idea. Any plans to add a "Politics" category?

You are on the right track trying to come up with a weekly content marketing strategy.

Now comes the difficult part: what kind of content should you create?

Ideally you should write something that has both the potential to resonate with people on social networks AND ranks on search engines in the long term. Good luck!

I read your interview for starterstory a few days ago. Asking Pat to add your trennd's link coul help a bit and you could do other interviews for relevant audiences.

Also, I’m heading to the Indie Hackers meet up in Tokyo in a few hours, so if anyone else is going say hey!

You are #1 right now. Great Job!

How have you done it, any tips?

Congrats!

Hey Josh, congratulations! I just saw a tweet by Rand Fishkin about Trennd! 🙌

This looks awesome! Question: How often are the trend data updated? Is it day-by-day basis?

It's very cool, how do you plan to monetize it? A section with tips on how to lecerage every trend for pro member only could be a good idea. I would pay for it.

Liked the traffic page. Nice way of creating a buzz around by showing the numbers. Great work @jhowarth15!!

@jhowarth15 this is a brilliant idea. Congratulations and keep growing!! If you are fine with sharing, do you use Google Trends API?

Great Job! 👏👏
Keep up the good work