Answer Socrates

Answer Socrates

Discover content ideas using real Google data

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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.
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Gonçalo Pimentel
What's the difference between this and http://answerthepublic.com?
Vladimír Seman
@goncalo_pimentel yes, it reminded me that one
Vladimír Seman
@goncalo_pimentel maybe they cover more languages?
Gonçalo Pimentel
@goncalo_pimentel @vladojsem maybe, but when I tried using Portuguese, it didn't work. The UI/UX are nearly identical. I don't get some people. If you're going to do this, why not try to innovate and create a better product?
Yury
Answer Socrates
Maker
@goncalo_pimentel @vladojsem It is quite similar, yes (as Ahrefs was to Semrush or Facebook to MySpace). Also check out Ubersuggest and the very cool Scout Suggest. And although we do have some interesting, unique features already, like PAA, trends, performance, often more results, we don’t consider that differentiation as a necessary justification for more competition to exist. So while yours is a perfectly valid criticism, it’s a common fallacy when looking at a new project or startup to see it as the end result, rather than the beginning.
Vladimír Seman
@ytspar thank you. makes sense. there are many ways how you can differ in the future. and yes, sometimes products seem to be similar, but there is a difference at the end. for instance, answerthepublic has only 2 free searches per day. you are also showing trends and what people ask. what i am missing is possibility to download suggestions into the spreadsheet. good luck with your product!
Tobias
Answer Socrates
Maker
💻👷 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)
Yury
Answer Socrates
Maker
@refuseillusion @buythatdeals Added CSV export :)
Jake Creps
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.
Tobias
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?
Jake Creps
@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.
Tobias
Answer Socrates
Maker
@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
Ankit Chhabra
Selecting multiple countries (2-3 at least) at once would be a nice addition. Great resource though!!
Yury
Answer Socrates
Maker
@chhabra_ankit good idea - would it be useful to have results in the same language or different ones for each country?
Ankit Chhabra
@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.
Yury
Answer Socrates
Maker
@ytspar @chhabra_ankit great, added to our list of ideas.
Sandoche
Llamao
Very nice, I'll add it to the trends category of https://undesign.learn.uno, I love your product well done!
Tobias
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 :)
Gonçalo Pimentel
@sandochee you should add answerthepublic.com
Sandoche
Llamao
@sandochee @goncalo_pimentel Thanks, I already have it in design research!
Sandoche
Llamao
@goncalo_pimentel Just updated Undesign with yoyr website!
Gonçalo Pimentel
@sandochee That's so kind of you, really appreciate it! :)
Stuart Wilson
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?
Yury
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.
Stuart Wilson
@stuart_wilson4 @ytspar Ok cool, so safe to assume majority of questions though, are South Africans asking questions.
Yury
Answer Socrates
Maker
@stuart_wilson4 @ytspar yes, unless there's a bug :P
Maja Paluchiewicz
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?
Yury
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?
Maja Paluchiewicz
@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 ?
Yury
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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