Made a tool to search social media
So I finally released my first "indie-hacked product":
It's a service that searches different social media for your chosen keyword and then notifies you using a slack or discord bot, or by an email "report" at the end of every day/week.
Give it a try, it currently supports twitter, reddit, instagram, youtube, and hackernews, and there is a 30-day trial:
Some context
It came out of a personal project I made to automatically search Twitter and Reddit a certain keyword and then post on Discord every finding. This was used to help out some friends of mine that have developed a popular App and wanted to track what people were public saying about their app, as well as about some other competitor.
This turned out to be quite useful, so I thought it could be a good candidate for making an actual product. It also kind of falls into the unbundling category for some automation tools (e.g: Zappier) so I thought I should at least try!
Building it was quite fun, but actually making it into a state good enough for release took 4x more than I originally predicted. It still feels very rough and missing a lot of features that I would like to add, but I am not sure I would ever feel like the product would be good enough so I am making a bigger effort to just release it and then iterate!
Now I need to focus on getting more users as I only have a few friends using it, but honestly, I am completely lost on how to actually do this. I am hoping this post might help :)
Hey @diogovasconcelos it's pretty cool! I'm giving it a try. :)
Have you maybe though about use cases that would be enabled if you could implement "search by meaning" (like Google) and not only search by "keyword matching"? Would it be interesting?
Thanks @BediZajkas!
Unfortunately, I don't think I can do that. I am not scrapping all the public posts of the different social media, but instead relying on their search APIs, which usually only allow exact-match search
Maybe the description of the product wasn't very clear, because it doesn't do a historical search, but instead just continuously searches for recent posts while giving you notifications/reports about these findings.
The "archives" feature of my product gives you the ability to browse and search all the data that has been "found", but as it will only start recording recent data since a new keyword is configured, the data will never be older than that. That is why when you configure a new keyword, the archives will be empty at that point, but then they will potentially be filled up as the service finds data.
Nevertheless, I am very open to feedback and to adding new features so feel free to reach out!
Aah okay I see! @diogovasconcelos What would be the best way to reach out via a private channel?
I sent you an email to the address you have on your IH account :)