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Communities love your brand - Our AI team finds them for you
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Communities love your brand - Our AI team finds them for you
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A nurse on hour ten of her shift sells your protein bar better than any athlete. Gone are the days when mega creators moved the needle on conversion. Today people buy from who they trust: small, close-knit trusted communities. Trovio finds those communities, and their influencers who actually use and need your product. - Influencers matched on community in seconds - Post a brief, set terms, and we handle the rest - Full analytics and conversion tracking Trust converts. Reach doesn't.
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Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Andrew, co-founder of Trovio. Last time we were here, we launched Pitch Kit to help creators land brand deals without an agent. Today we're launching the other side of the marketplace: the Trovio Brand Dashboard.
Here's what surprised us building the creator side. The best creator for your brand often isn't in the category you'd expect. They match your customer. We keep seeing it: a streamer who sits eight hours a day is a genuinely strong fit for comfortable activewear. A budgeting app's most convincing voice turns out to be a debt-payoff creator, not a finance one. Not because category creators are bad, but because the audience that buys often lives somewhere else.
Search struggles to find those people. A search bar retrieves creators by the label they filed themselves under, and your customers don't live in one label. They live in communities: comfy-clothes people, no-time-to-eat people, always-in-transit people. One community pulls from a dozen niches, so a lot of the best matches never show up when you type a keyword.
So we built the Brand Dashboard around communities instead:
Tell us about your brand and we surface the communities your customers are already in, the influencers they trust, and the reason each one fits
Post a brief, set terms, and manage every conversation, deliverable, and deadline in one place
Track what actually matters: conversions, not just reach
We'd especially love your take on:
How community matches feel vs. your current discovery process
The match that surprised you most, and whether the "why" made sense at a glance
What metrics you'd want in the dashboard that aren't there
Ask us anything, and thanks for checking out Trovio!
@andrew_lukas We've paid people to do exactly this by hand, and the hard part was never finding communities, it was reading which ones would actually welcome a brand versus quietly resent it. How do you tell an engaged community from one that turns on outside brands the moment you show up?
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@artem_fedorovich ok this is a really good distinction, and honestly it's the part we think about most. Our whole approach is matching you with creators who are already having these conversations. If someone's been talking about comfy clothes for months because that's just their life, a partnership with a comfort-first brand doesn't feel like an outsider showing up. It feels like part of a conversation that was already happening. The resentment thing usually comes from the interruption, a creator suddenly hyping something they've never cared about. When the product fits a conversation that already exists, there's nothing to turn on.
The other piece is the creator themselves. Every brief is opt-in, and they know their audience way better than we do. If a partnership would land wrong, they just pass. Their whole business is the trust you're describing, so they're not going to risk it on a bad fit. Doesn't make the risk zero, but it kills the two most common causes of it. Also would love to hear what you learned doing this by hand, that sounds like hard-won knowledge haha
Incredible
@andrew_lukas big fan of yours! let's go gener8tor companies!
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@tristanpollock Thanks Tristan! Appreciate you!
The "match on community, not category" thesis is the right one — for a launch the highest-converting voice is usually someone already trusted in an adjacent niche, not the on-topic mega-account. I d use this to seed a Web3 product launch where the real communities are Discord/Telegram-native rather than IG/TikTok. One concrete thing: does the matching reach those closed community spaces, or is it sourcing purely from public social graphs — and how do you screen out communities with inflated/bot membership before I put a brief and budget behind them?
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@hazy0 Really appreciate this one, and you clearly get the thesis. Honest answer on the platform question: today the matching is built on creators who connect their accounts directly, with Instagram and TikTok first-class and YouTube rolling out now. Discord and Telegram native communities aren't in the graph yet, but our whole approach is meeting creators where they are, so any platform where real communities live is on our radar. Web3 is honestly a great example of trust living in closed spaces rather than public feeds.
The connect-their-account part is also the answer to your bot question. We don't scrape public profiles and guess. Creators link their real accounts, so we see true engagement straight from the platform, not follower counts, and accounts flooded with bots are pretty loud in that data: big reach, engagement that never follows. That verification layer is exactly what we'd bring to any new platform we add, closed communities included, because putting a brief and budget behind an unverified community is the thing we're trying to completely eliminate.
How do you handle end-to-end conversion tracking via custom affiliate links or promo codes? congrats @andrew_lukas on hitting product hunt today🙌
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@priya_kushwaha1 Short links, mostly. We don't really need promo codes to get there. The link carries the attribution, so you get click through to conversion on the brand's side without asking a creator to remember a code or a customer to type one in.
The other half is that our creators are actually on Trovio with their accounts connected, so we can pull the post-side numbers straight from the platform instead of relying on screenshots or self-reported stats. So you get both ends... what the post did, and what it drove.
Thanks again for checking it out!
@andrew_lukas Got it thanks, Really like the attribution approach 👏
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@steven_snider Thank you!! Totally fair question, and honestly it's why ads still look the way they do: big names are easier to find and easier to justify internally. But the conversion math points the other way. Based on industry benchmarks (HubSpot's Influencer Marketing Report + Influencer Marketing Hub's 2025 benchmarks), $50K on one macro creator gets you about 2.6M views and roughly 1,150 conversions. That same $50K spread across 10 smaller creators gets fewer views (about 1.9M) but roughly 4,700 conversions. Fewer eyeballs, about 4x the buyers, because people actually act on recommendations from creators they trust.
The reason brands haven't done this already is logistics. Finding, vetting, and managing 10 creators used to be way more work than booking one name. That's the part Trovio takes off your plate.
Sweet! Congrats! I’ve not seen someone be able to truly do attribution on creator marketing. How do you do attribution?
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@olsoj029 Yeah, honestly that's the thing that bugged me most about this space. Creator attribution is usually either a vanity metric (views, engagement, "estimated reach") or a pile of UTM params that nobody sets up consistently and that get stripped the second someone copies a link.
We do it at the link layer instead. Every creator on a campaign gets their own short link... clean enough to say out loud or drop in a bio, with the attribution baked into the link itself rather than a query string trailing off the end.
Once you have that, the more interesting part opens up. You can see which creators are actually driving results, not just impressions, and that becomes real feedback for the brand... who to re-sign, who to go deeper with, who's worth building an actual relationship, etc.
And because creators tend to cluster into communities, once we know someone's performing in a given community we can point the brand at other creators in that same community and then measure the whole group against each other. That's the part I'm most excited about!!
Thanks for checking us out!
How does a brand know a creator's audience is even real? Fake followers and bot engagement are everywhere.
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@tyler_bush Great question, and honestly it's one of the biggest problems in the space. A few layers to how we handle it. First, creators on Trovio connect their accounts directly, so everything we work from comes straight from the platform APIs and refreshes nightly. No screenshots, no self-reported media kits. Second, our matching leans on engagement quality and consistency over time rather than follower counts. Bought followers are pretty loud in the data: big reach numbers with engagement that never follows.
There's also a quieter filter built into the model itself. Every creator on Trovio is a paying subscriber actually running their business here, and bot farms don't pay a monthly subscription to manage a fake audience. And the final backstop is that the dashboard tracks conversions, not just reach. Bots don't buy things. If an audience isn't real, it shows up exactly where you're looking.
Congrats on the launch. The community matching angle is the useful part here because it moves the brief away from follower counts and toward actual trust. For brands that sell across several customer segments, do you let them define different community profiles inside one campaign, or is the matching model better when each brief stays focused on one clear buyer group?
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@wesc Thank you! This is an awesome question.
The matching itself already runs at the community level, and when you tell us about your brand we usually surface several distinct communities, because almost no brand maps to just one buyer group. So multi-segment discovery is native to how it works. For briefs, my honest take today is that one clear buyer group per brief performs better. Terms, creative direction, and what a good deliverable looks like usually differ by segment anyway, so a few focused briefs beat one broad one that averages across audiences. But letting brands define named community profiles and track them side by side inside one campaign is a really good idea. Noting it for the roadmap.