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Re: Ask HN: check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com

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Post by ryanwaggoner »

mtw wrote: post #11

1. yes 2. feedback from twitter (search) 3. not really, there's already more elaborate apps like scout labs

You may want to take a look at http://MightyBrand.com, our social media monitoring and engagement platform which is more akin to Scout Labs. MightyReach is more geared towards getting a high-level view of all your existing web analytics and social media stats, rather than monitoring social media mentions of your brand. Make sense?

Re: Ask HN: check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com

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Post by thorax »

I love your front page. One of the common criticisms on HN is that it's hard for us to tell what startups do. You make it quite clear (to me) from first glance what you offer.

We use/pay Clicky for stats, and I have to say they do a good job in displaying the metrics I care about.

It's hard to say whether I would pay more or less for something that integrated with all my analytics accounts. I think there's some appeal there, but I see more of these services now tracking some of the social aspects so your value will get eroded unless you keep working hard.

Looks good at first glance, though.

Re: Ask HN: check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com

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Post by jfarmer »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #6
jfarmer wrote: post #4

It looks nice, but I see a big panel of metrics I'd never use. http://20bits.com/articles/8-tips-for-crafting-metrics-that-... Taking the Twitter followers graph, will your system let me track the referral traffic from Twitter and break down what they do on with my product? Can I A/B test to see how it impacts their behavior and have it reflected in the reports? Tracking my Twitter followers and Facebook fans is fun,…

There's a lot of more complicated things that we'd like to do down the road, but a lot of people aren't even using the simple top-line stats to the degree that they should be, partly because things are so spread out and fragmented. That's the theory, anyway :)

I think people shouldn't use "topline stats" like # Twitter followers. You should be tracking the value that Twitter drives to your product (preferably dollars-in-hand) and optimize that -- whether that means getting more followers, getting more followers of a certain type, getting more people to retweet your stuff, or whatever.

The same goes for the other "top line" metrics like that: pageviews, uniques, # friends, # fans, whatever.

"# friends"-type metrics are particularly bad because they're virtually monotonic.

Just my thoughts -- your product might not be designed for my needs.

Re: Ask HN: check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com

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Post by kyro »

run4yourlives wrote: post #10

I would never use this however if I've learned anything in this life it is that there is no upper bound on appeasing the ego. You should be a runaway success... add some website karma monitoring and it'll really take off. Even better, give the user an overall average rating and let them compete with their friends to establish who the most popular person is. One issue would be monetization, as this is usually somethin…

I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you and say that this doesn't cater at all to the facebook/tween crowd. It's not even to appease egos. No one puts up facebook fan pages or youtube videos to promote themselves. This would be perfect for a company trying to establish a web presence or a band utilizing social media to gain a following. And because of that, monetization will be rather easy. Companies/musicians/etc would definitely pay for a service like this, imo.
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