Answer Socrates

Discover content ideas using real Google data

31 followers

Discover content ideas using real Google data

31 followers

Answer Socrates generates hundreds of questions for almost any topic, in many languages. You can use these questions to write authoritative, thorough content, to brainstorm product ideas, and see what real Google users are searching for.

Launch tags:Writing•Marketing•SEO

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Answer Socrates

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💻👷 Tech stack 🎨 Frontend The frontend is implemented using Svelte and Sapper, going against the grain of popular frontend development and using a compiler to produce plain JavaScript that runs without any runtime dependencies, resulting in a small and snappy bundle. Styling is done using Tailwind 2.0, which has been a pleasure to use. ⬇️ Backend On the backend a NodeJS server is gathering the data by scraping and storing it in a cache. The asynchronous nature of JavaScript makes it easy to run all scraping in parallel. 🌐🌐🌐 Scraping / Proxies We developed our own tooling to make most efficient use of proxies, preventing rate limits by carefully planning how often any individual proxy is used. This allows us to keep operating costs low so we can offer a free product. Cheap scraping at scale requires lots of "internet street smarts" not taught in school. We're considering building a product that intelligently selects the right proxy so that developers don't have to spend time benchmarking various subnets and cloud providers. APIs like this already exist but are too expensive to use at scale. 🌐 Network Cloudflare takes care of SSL and caching. Using a Page Rule we're able to cache not only images but also API responses on the edge, for free. This Page Rule "Cache Everything" isn't talked about often, but in my opinion it's one of Cloudflare's best offerings. The app runs on a single bare-metal server in a single location, but data is cached in over 200 cities for a snappy performance from anywhere in the world. ❓What should we build next? Answer Socrates is far from being finished. What feature would you like to see? - JSON, CSV export - More word modifications to generate even more content ideas - Historical data & alerts when new content ideas are discovered - An API to integrate the data into your workflow - APIs to build similar products (proxy rotation, Google suggestion, translation, etc)

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5yr ago

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@refuseillusion @buythatdeals Added CSV export :)

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5yr ago

Ok this is sick. Quick one, I am based in South Africa, so I input "health insurance" for that specific country, and some of the results generated seem to be a mix batch including other countries, e.g, questions about health insurance in Alabama or questions asking for agents in Oregon, that seems as though it is picking up questions from Americans? How does it work when selecting a specific country, is it picking up questions asked from people in that country at the time?

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@stuart_wilson4 I'll have a look. Unless there's a bug on our end, it should show Google results for the selected country; odds are, these American questions are ranking in South Africa.

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5yr ago

@stuart_wilson4 @ytspar Ok cool, so safe to assume majority of questions though, are South Africans asking questions.

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@stuart_wilson4 @ytspar yes, unless there's a bug :P

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5yr ago

That´s such a great idea for making content and SEO, thanks guys! Out of my curiosity, I tried the Polish market/language, too, and at first, it was giving me no or quite random results but after a few minutes of trying, it started working fast and properly. Also, I wanted to contact you but the contact button on your website doesn´t work - maybe worth fixing @ytspar?

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@ytspar @maja_paluchiewicz thanks :) where were the random looking results, on the home page or on the SERP/query page? Contact button is working for me, it should pop open your email client. What happened when you clicked it?

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5yr ago

@ytspar On the home page. It started working properly after a few times I typed in various topics. It works now, too, I double-checked again just now. Email - it just opens my mailbox and nothing else happens.. If it´s just my case, maybe just email me hello@joinly.xyz ?

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@ytspar @joinly @maja_paluchiewicz email, it should populate the sender field with "contact@answersocrates.com" - I'll take another look. And send you an email, regardless.

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5yr ago

Llamao

Very nice, I'll add it to the trends category of https://undesign.learn.uno, I love your product well done!

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@sandochee Thank you, glad to hear you like it! We noticed on ProductHunt that trends-products seem to be trending and wanted to exploit it by adding trends data. Looks like it is working :)

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5yr ago

@sandochee you should add answerthepublic.com

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5yr ago

Llamao

@sandochee @goncalo_pimentel Thanks, I already have it in design research!

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5yr ago

Llamao

@goncalo_pimentel Just updated Undesign with yoyr website!

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5yr ago

@sandochee That's so kind of you, really appreciate it! :)

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5yr ago

Selecting multiple countries (2-3 at least) at once would be a nice addition. Great resource though!!

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@chhabra_ankit good idea - would it be useful to have results in the same language or different ones for each country?

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5yr ago

@ytspar Thanks :) Language shouldn't make any difference I believe. Because at the end of the day Answer Socrates is letting people know the questions so even if it is in English but from different countries, the native non english people would be able to comprehend easily.

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

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@ytspar @chhabra_ankit great, added to our list of ideas.

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5yr ago

I’d love to see this integrated into a Quora bot lol. Would be cool to see how many of the questions actually generate conversations which could lead to prelaunching quality content.

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@jakecreps Interesting, never considered integration with Quora bots (didn't even know Quora bots exist). What could a possible integration look like?

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5yr ago

@refuseillusion well essentially you create a bot to ask/submit questions on Quora then you set it to notify you if a question meets a certain threshold (let’s say 10 answers). Then, you take those top questions and create long form content for them.

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

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@refuseillusion @jakecreps I see. That bot could also be used to participate in the Quora Partner Program, which pays for asking "good" questions. I'm intrigued that there is a market for that - a person that asks questions all day long but might not even be interested in the answers per se. The questions currently generated are pre-validated in the sense that there already is search traffic for them We might add Quora as a data source, scraping questions that have already been asked. Theoretically I'd assume that by the time a question shows up in Google Suggestions, someone already asked it on Quora too, but I could be wrong about that

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5yr ago

This is amazing! Super helpful for coming up with content ideas. I would love an "export" feature where I could send my query to a csv file or similar. That would be awesome 🚀 Well done, team!

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

Maker

@thomsonaus on the list to build! Glad to hear you dig it.

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5yr ago

Answer Socrates

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@thomsonaus Hi, we've implemented CSV export.

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5yr ago