Snapdex

Find People's Snapchat Usernames

68 followers

Find People's Snapchat Usernames

68 followers

Snapdex is a directory of Snapchat users. It let's you easily discover new people on Snapchat that may be of interest to you.

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Snapdex

Maker

Hi, I'm Laurent, creator of Snapdex, together with @prameya. Thanks for hunting the site, @stringstory! Snapchat is full of interesting people who produce unique content exclusively to Snapchat (Justin Kan, Mark Suster to name a few). I wanted to find more people like them, but there's nothing really good out there to help you discover new Snapchat accounts, so I made Snapdex! I'm aware there are a couple other sites out there, but I wanted to make something that's 10x better than the competition. The site is fully user-editable, just like on Wikipedia, and includes categories and location for filtering, and snaps and reviews to learn more about a certain Snapchat account. I launched the site a few months ago. Right now I'm focusing on growth. Would be great if we can make this the de-facto platform to discover new interesting Snapchat users. So feel free to add more Snapchatters to the index! And if you have any questions, or feedback on whatsoever (how to improve the site, foster growth), let me know! I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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9yr ago

@laurentvw @prameya @stringstory Two ideas that I had off the top of my head: 1) It would be nice to see more categories that accounts fit into. For example, I looked for a "tech" category right away. 2) This is more of a question than a suggestion, for the category selection on the explore page, why did you decide to go with a drop down menu versus a facet selection?

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9yr ago

Snapdex

Maker

@derickhilde 1) You're right, there's no tech category yet, but we do have Entrepreneurship, Startups, Marketing and some others. I personally don't like the idea of tags, because it lacks context, and it's definitely something that we need to fix. A better way of doing this is to e.g. have an "occupation" element with values such as "Actor", "Tech Entrepreneur", "Web Developer", "Journalist", etc. Then have other elements in the same manner, e.g. "interested in", "industry sector", etc. It's in the pipelines, but it's going to take a little while to develop. 2) The dropdown was slightly easier and faster to code. That's really it. I still consider the site to be an MVP. There's a lot that we can improve on, but it takes time. That being said, I've added the necessary todos in our task list! Thanks for the feedback Derick! :)

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9yr ago

@laurentvw @prameya @stringstory is there a API on the way?

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9yr ago

Snapdex

Maker

@adriangrant We currently have an API, but it's for internal use only. What would you like to use it for? It didn't occur to me yet that there would be a need for this.

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9yr ago

True Stories

Hunter

@laurentvw @prameya atm the url are based on the person's full name (ie. snapdex.com/suzannenguyen) being that it's snapchat and you're encouraging people to review/add details. how about changing the url to the username. (ie snapdex.com/stringstory). It'd be easier to search and discover, and if you have regular contributors, they can add it to the snaphandle

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9yr ago

True Stories

Hunter

I found Snapdex while I was googling more information about Snapchat, when I stumbled upon Snapdex, a wiki-like directory for Snapchat users. This is different from Ghostcodes, as they include reviews from the audience, and it's editable?! which is why it's has a wikipedia feel to it.

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9yr ago

Snapdex

Maker

@stringstory Hey! big fan. Thanks so much for posting this.

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9yr ago

True Stories

Hunter

@prameya well done, I was thinking about how the other discovery sites should add a review to it and voila you guys came along. Hope it grows to include other content makers on IG stories too.

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9yr ago

ArtSquare

How did you make these? Manually? Did you also manually take screenshots from the snap stories of all the top trending users? Why?

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9yr ago

Snapdex

Maker

@elizabethhunker Everything is manual. Snapchat doesn't have an API to automate this, and it's against their TOS to use bots to get their data. So we're doing it manually, and of course a lot of users of the site are helping out too.

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9yr ago

Vytmn

This is awesome. This for finding this @stringstory. Looks like I'm listed too. Time to let snapfam know about this! Glad to find other snapchatters that I don't know of as well.

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9yr ago

Snapdex

Maker

@hackapreneur Happy to hear that it's useful for other active Snapchatters! :)

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9yr ago

Wonderful 👍 I was looking for services like that to discover snapcodes. I agree 100% with @bentossell, Snapchat needs to work on discovery it's a huge pain point. Well done to Snapdex 👏 Hope to see them add other features & maybe Instagram accounts for story makers 🙀

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9yr ago

Snapdex

Maker

@matthieudeluze Thanks for the kind words. What other features were you thinking of? As for Instagram, we do link to an item's Instagram account if there's any. Perhaps we can integrate them on the site as well, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea since the site is very focused on Snapchat (especially the domain name). Building an Instagram clone of Snapdex is possible though, I'll think about it!

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9yr ago

@laurentvw You're right, not a great idea to add Instagram stories with that domain name but creating one for IG could be cool too 😹 I will test it deeper to eventually suggest features but it already looks great 👍

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9yr ago

So far I am loving this. Great idea, and great platform. I'm adding my voice to the others on this page. One of the things I love about snapchat is that you really have to work to build an audience, which makes it unique to other platforms. I started using snapchat in April and have a really good and engaged following. So far I love Snapdex because it's kind of like wikipedia for snapchat. Thanks @stringstory for letting me know about the site.

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9yr ago

Slackstarters

Thanks for featuring StartersTV! https://www.snapdex.com/Starters...

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9yr ago

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