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Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy your products or service

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Re: Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy your products or service

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The service was just launched and is looking for feedback.

Can you explain how this works? I couldn't find any info on your page.

You have to put a javascript on your registration page and then you see all your new signups in a realtime dashboard with added social context, like the screenshot on the home page. You also get email alerts whenever someone who is really influential signs up.

There is also the option of calling a REST api to send us new signups.

Re: Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy your products or service

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Interesting. Is this opt in on their part or are you doing some form of online stalking? I'm curious how it works the site has a very clean design. Good job.

It's not opt in. We add context to a user based on public information about him available online. Being able to opt in is an interesting idea.

Re: Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy your products or service

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain how this works? I couldn't find any info on your page.

You have to put a javascript on your registration page and then you see all your new signups in a realtime dashboard with added social context, like the screenshot on the home page. You also get email alerts whenever someone who is really influential signs up. There is also the option of calling a REST api to send us new signups.

How do you tell who is influential? How can you map email addresses to Twitter accounts, or other social media accounts? Most influential people don't really share it to the public.

Anyway, I know this site was just put up to garner demand, and you probably haven't implemented anything. If this really works, I'd be willing to pay say $30/month for it.

Re: Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy your products or service

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Congratulations on the launch! I think the concept is great, but your site is pretty bare. I would suggest adding more info to get people through the conversion funnel. How it works, case studies, who the influential people are, etc.

Most probably they will add that once they get the initial feedback.

Re: Sunnytrail - get notified when influential people buy your products or service

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Interesting. Is this opt in on their part or are you doing some form of online stalking? I'm curious how it works the site has a very clean design. Good job.

I'm curious as to how it defines identity. If handled through email or domain, I'm sure many influencers have non-public spam-catcher gmails; if done by name alone, there will be false positives due to matching names or pranks.

If I met the threshold for an influential person, this would probably make me more than a little uncomfortable, and I'd start signing up to services with fake info.

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