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Nitesh Manav
@niteshmanav · Just google : Nitesh Manav
Congratulations @alexgilmore0811 and the whole @Ruzzit Team :)
I had subscribed for this release many months back and just received an email notification about the same.
I have used BuzzSumo and NewsWhip Spikes in the past ( Trial versions only. Don't have money to buy it :( ). So, I know what I want from you. :)
Just used the newest version, Here are few things to know, ask or suggest.
1. Ruzzit looks more like a news site ( Like Viralnova) than a viral content discovery tool. If it's intentional, It's nice, but I would still suggest you give users an option to choose between list views and grid views. I love more content and more links in fewer areas.
2. The social sharing button almost covers the whole featured image. Make it smaller and use icons only, no need to write social media channel name :)
3. Even after the site loaded, when I clicked menu and submenu item, it took the time to load ( means first showed white block, and then mega menu appeared). Give it a look.
4. Is there any chance to add to country specific virality. I mean if I want to see the viral content from India only.
5. Any chance to add Time of 1 hour or 2 hours so that we can pre-estimate the virality of content. Buzzsumo has this option.
6. It currently seems to be free, but there must be some paid features either currently or to be added in future. Aren't you looking for any early adapters which can give you feedback by using it for free? :) ( Yes, I am pitching to get some offer)
Thank you so much. Let me explore more now. All the very best. :)
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Alex Gilmore
@alexgilmore0811 · Co-Founder & Web / UX Designer at Ruzzit
@niteshmanav Thanks Nitesh for all your feedback, appreciate it.
To answer some of your comments:
1. Completely agree - this is part of our roadmap. We will create an 'option' toggle between which view the user wants, one a grid view or a list view (a bit more like Reddit or PH for example).
2. Great suggestion, adding to to our backlog to review after today.
3. Sure, we'll have a look at this.
4. Yes. We will be launching in new countries. Our Beta also included France but we thought it would be better to focus in one area for the start. We will expand by getting involved with people from the countries we want to launch in so the content source is high quality and culturally relevant.
5. Yes and no :) Basically this ties into point 6, but there is an issue of not enough content being available at this early stage of Ruzzit as we don't have 100k+ sources at the moment.
6. We plan to keep the Ruzzit feed always free. We are however building more analytic tools that we think would be more useful for brands and agencies. These tools would be most likely a paid feature, most certainly the Prediction tool.
Great questions, hopefully, this answers some of them!
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Nitesh Manav
@niteshmanav · Just google : Nitesh Manav
@alexgilmore0811 Thank you for the precise response. :)
I have already added myself to the early access list of 'Prediction Tool', I will be waiting for the same.
Alos read your long post on Medium. You guys are doing an awesome work :) Thank you and all the very best for the great success.
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