š Hi! This is Sid
I recently become an independent developer (quit my job!) and started making courses and conducting workshops.
I get most of my audience from my twitter and youtube channel, so I've become more intentional about building an audience."If you can't measure it, you can't improve it ā Peter Drucker"
Started tracking them with pen and paper along with my morning coffee but I would forget doing this all the time! š Realised I need it to be a push not pull.
And that's why I built this product! It keeps a track of my social accounts and sends me an email every Monday. (including my tiny newsletter)
If you are trying to build an audience for yourself or your company, you might find this useful as well :)
What's next?
- Moar integrations: I only use a few social media platforms (screw facebook) and a handful of tools, I'd be happy to add your favorite tool
- Richer data: Followers is just scratching the surface, Engagement is where the fun is. I'd love to track how replies on twitter, open rate on newsletter, you get the picture
P.S. I made this product in 7 days and recorded a video every day while building it.
@siddharthkp I've been following your 7 day startup vlog. Congrats on the launch! š¤ Signed up and setup my Twitter and Youtube accounts. Looking forward to my first email next week. It would be cool if I can see it right away somewhere and then get weekly emails.
And for the fellow makers who are always curious about this:
š ļø Tools used to build this:
1. Hosted on Now 2.0 (I'm on the 15$ plan)
2. Web app built with Next.js 2.0 (open source)
3. API built with Express (open source)
4. Queues managed by Bull (open source)
5. Queue persisted on Redis Labs (free tier)
6. Emails sent by SendGrid (free tier)
7. Errors go to Sentry (free tier)
Video built with Quicktime, iMovie and Rotato
Pretty interesting. We built a "similar" service for Instagram a year ago. Coincidentally, it sends out the stats to the user's email too. Coincidently, it sends out the email every Monday too. Coincidentally, it's called metrics.fun (www.metrics.fun) too! Such coincidence, much wow. All the best!
@eulerr GitHub would be really cool, what would you like to see - stars, followers, ?
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Followed your vlog series and it's great to see the outcome.
- better if we got a metrics mail on the fly for the first time after signup
Pros:
1) Metrics to inbox is awesome idea.
2) simple interface.
Cons:
clicking on magic link is lengthy process would prefer a google oauth for signup.
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Maybe send an initial email after the accounts are added - to show that things are working and we can see what the email format will look like. Some instant gratification.
Pros:
Simple and fast to setup
Cons:
Would be good to have some kind of confirmation that the linked account is valid when added
@siddharthkp Fair enough. If you want to know for sure I actually have a market research service where for $12 you can ask 100 people a question then follow-up based on how they answered and even interview them! https://scoops.io/
You could ask e.g. "How much would you pay for a site that everyday told you how your social media stats were doing?" -> then you could follow-up with everyone who said they'd pay a lot and see what platform they'd prefer.
Anyway If you want to give it a shot feel free to sign up and let me know which email you used over Intercom and I'll pass you $12 in free credits.
Best of luck otherwise!
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super useful, easy to setup, keep the integrations coming :)
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That intro video is sickkk. How did you create that? Which tool I mean.
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