Hello everyone! 🐱
I presented to you the v1 of Ugly Duckling almost a year ago (how time flies!), but sadly, it was killed by changes in X/Twitter shortly after its first launch here.
Although initially I wanted to completely abandon this project, I realized that there was a lack of affordable options in this saturated market, so I decided to look for a way to resurrect the Duckling. I've completely rewritten the app in January, and since then, over 200 people have joined this new, little duck pond 🐤
What has changed?
- Ugly Duckling has a new home! It's now a Web Application
- It uses X API instead of scraping (no longer maintained) X Analytics
- Achievements for effort, growth, and consistency
- Community leaderboards
- Weekly progress reports
- Consistency chart
- Improved sharing (public URLs, new options for images export)
- A completely new Browser Extension
I'm so excited to show you the Ugly Duckling v2 and I can't wait to hear your feedback and suggestions!
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@norbertjurga love the story, Norbert. The app looks cool and solves a big problem in budget. Congrats and keep the good work flowing!
@norbertjurga Looks really clean! Congratulations ! Will give it a shot.
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@norbertjurga WONDERFUL PRODUCT. DEFINITELY GIVING THIS A TRY
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@norbertjurga I've been using the app for about 2 weeks and I gotta say that the simplicity and how the data is presented in a meaningful way keeps you consistent. Highly recommend!
@jsteneros Thank you, Johan! I agree - I didn't get much to work with, but I'm trying to do best with what I can, and the UI seemed like the most obvious direction 🙌
@dan_mindru@gregoiregilbert no worries, it's a pleasure to help @dan_mindru out! 😂
huh, good question, where do I even start.. I think I was most tempted to start injecting widgets/charts into the X UI last week 😄 I have a long list of stuff in my backlog. Tbh I just set the date a month ago and launched with what I had ready.
@thomas_sanlis1 hahah thank you, Thomas! this is amazosom! 😂🎉
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I started using UglyDuckling 63 days ago and since day one, I have loved how the product is evolving!
I love how Norbert is handling the feedback and improving his product. I visit my dashboard every single day to see how consistent I am with X and to see where I stand on the leaderboard.
This is one of my favorite products! Norbert is such a great builder.
@joaoaguiam thank you so much for all of our discussions and all of your advice, João - without your feedback would be in a completely different place 🙏💛 Thank you for the support!
I’ve been using this app since version 1, way before it was a standalone web app.
Even back then it was one of the most joyful tools I had.
Feels like today they 10x it, made it more better in every single way and last but not least — highly addictive.
If you’re using 𝕏, you need to try this.
Gamifying twitter analytics is probably one of the best ideas I've recently heard! If you are trying to stay consistent and grow an audience on twitter, Ugly Duckling is a must have!
@andrei_terteci thank you, Andrei! you're the OG! 🙌 thanks for your support this last year 💛
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Loved V1, but V2 is even better!
Been following you for a while on Twitter and couldn't be happier seeing your success on Ugly Duckling. You've put so much time and effort into it, and it's great to see it paying off.
Congrats, and good luck on the launch!
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