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Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

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Re: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

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Post by chrisdc »

mbesto wrote: post #34

For some reason I just assume that HootSuite, TweetDeck, etc. all do this, no? I use Buffer and don't see anything entirely compelling to switch. I also have tried HootSuite and the rate limiting and interface bugged the hell out of me. Also, up your pricing. I bet you'll get more customers. I'd recommend: Free (for 30 days, no credit card), then $5/month, Amazing at $25/month and biz at $100.

Buffer is a great tool, however it only supports Publishing while Stacker supports both Publishing and Replying from one app.

I wrote a blog post on the core advantage we offer recently https://www.getstacker.com/blog/4/the-million-problem

Excellent feedback on the pricing! Right now our main focus is to grow our customer base.

Re: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

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Post by chrisdc »

cavemanklaus wrote: post #40

This is very nice. I'm curious about your technology stack for putting this all together, if you wouldn't mind sharing some behind the scenes I'd be most grateful.

I'm happy to share. I'll do a blog post on this down the line, but here's the outline....

Node.JS at the core. Redis and AWS SimpleDB for the Database. Major caching at all levels (frontend/backend). Response times of less than 50ms for most calls. Web Sockets(SocketIO) for real time communications.

The frontend is built entirely in AngularJS with a few jQuery integrations. We write all our CSS in LESS and compile it using Grunt.

We used PHP (LAMP) for our last major Project and I can say that for what we are trying to achieve, NodeJS is much much much faster(10x) and leaner(we manage the same traffic with 20% of the server resources used on our last project with PHP)

Re: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

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Post by chrisdc »

ceejayoz wrote: post #39
chrisdc wrote: post #23

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You are absolutely right, the Inbox is Stacker's most used feature. We find users coming back multiple times a day to respond to incoming requests from their fans and followers. We would be super happy if Google+ opened up their API. Its a great network, just needs to become more open!

G+ is probably trying to avoid what happened with App.net - cross-posting clients leading to seemingly active but entirely non-participating accounts.

Could be, but I think at the very least they should open it up for G+ Pages.

Re: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

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Post by chrisdc »

bussiere wrote: post #25
chrisdc wrote: post #21

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I like the idea of a CSV export. It shouldn't be too difficult to do since we have all the data with us. Our PDF reports are very detailed though. Will be sure to pass this on to our Dev team. Thanks!

yep when you will do that you'll be one of the best tool for CM ... :) And for the export of the data as inbox or etc .... Why not a paid api ? Instead of having an offline version i could build mine on the top of your. Just calling your api. Like 10$ or 20$ per month for accessing the api. This is my need only i don't garantee that i could be a viable business model (i am not sure that cm need that). Regards

We will consider that although I'm not sure the economics would work out.

Our API will go live soon(possibly as early as next week). It will be Free and you will be able to access all the data under your own account or any account that gives you permission to do so.

Re: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

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Post by chrisdc »

sjs382 wrote: post #27
chrisdc wrote: post #24

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Stacker has a very well featured Free-for-Life plan (everything that Circular offers and more)! We love Circular, but it only posts to Twitter. Stacker posts to Facebook (Profiles/Pages/Groups), Twitter, LinkedIn (Profiles/Pages/Groups) and we are in the process of adding in many more networks. With Stacker you also get a Universal Inbox that displays and lets you Like/Favorite/Reply-to incoming messages from across…

Which is probably great for your audience, but isn't right for me. That said, I'm probably one of the worst customers for a social app—I'm cheap and I derive only a little bit of value from social networking/marketing. What I get from Circular.io (and Stacker doesn't seem to offer in the free plan?) is the ability to schedule posts for X twitter accounts (currently, X = 8).

You are right, but with our Amazing plan you can have 2 way communication with your Twitter followers for just $10/month and upto X = 12 Twitter accounts with in-depth click tracking and lots lots more :)

Re: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

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Post by ohitsdom »

bencevans wrote: post #26

Would like to see some screenshots on the frontpage. I don't want to give access to my social profiles if I can't actually see what benefits something gives me (text just doesn't cut it)

Agreed, I won't give a site access to my profiles without seeing some screenshots first.

Re: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

#49

Post by mbesto »

chrisdc wrote: post #41
mbesto wrote: post #34

For some reason I just assume that HootSuite, TweetDeck, etc. all do this, no? I use Buffer and don't see anything entirely compelling to switch. I also have tried HootSuite and the rate limiting and interface bugged the hell out of me. Also, up your pricing. I bet you'll get more customers. I'd recommend: Free (for 30 days, no credit card), then $5/month, Amazing at $25/month and biz at $100.

Buffer is a great tool, however it only supports Publishing while Stacker supports both Publishing and Replying from one app. I wrote a blog post on the core advantage we offer recently https://www.getstacker.com/blog/4/the-million-problem Excellent feedback on the pricing! Right now our main focus is to grow our customer base.

> Right now our main focus is to grow our customer base.

Cool! Don't discredit raising prices with turning people away.

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