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Re: Ask HN: My idea is already taken. What should I do?

#11

Post by contechual » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 6:52 PM UTC

Co-sign to what everyone said to try the apps.

After you get the feedback, create a small tweak in your iteration of the idea and analyze the potential.

Here I'll throw out an idea I had in a while, keep in mind I barely know how to code or even develop a tech start-up in the first place.

Privatized URL Analytics, yes there's Google and Bit.ly but what I'm saying is take Bit.ly's platform and integrate it with Google Analytics and you'll get one hell of a URL tracker. Sadly, nothing exists (as far as I know of). Would love to help develop and extrapolate the idea but that's as far as I could take it.

If there's such a URL platform, can anyone share what that is, so I may test it? Thanks and good luck with the idea.

Re: Ask HN: My idea is already taken. What should I do?

#12

Post by fananta » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 7:03 PM UTC

contechual wrote: post #11

Co-sign to what everyone said to try the apps. After you get the feedback, create a small tweak in your iteration of the idea and analyze the potential. Here I'll throw out an idea I had in a while, keep in mind I barely know how to code or even develop a tech start-up in the first place. Privatized URL Analytics, yes there's Google and Bit.ly but what I'm saying is take Bit.ly's platform and integrate it with Google…

Doesn't Bitly do this already? They give some (light) analytics for each short url.

Re: Ask HN: My idea is already taken. What should I do?

#13

Post by contechual » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

fananta wrote: post #12

contechual wrote: post #11

Co-sign to what everyone said to try the apps. After you get the feedback, create a small tweak in your iteration of the idea and analyze the potential. Here I'll throw out an idea I had in a while, keep in mind I barely know how to code or even develop a tech start-up in the first place. Privatized URL Analytics, yes there's Google and Bit.ly but what I'm saying is take Bit.ly's platform and integrate it with Google…

Doesn't Bitly do this already? They give some (light) analytics for each short url.

Bit.ly does give analytics but it isn't as insightful as Google's.

It's sort of the same reason why, people love Kiss Metrics as opposed to using the internal analytics on a CMS like Wordpress.

Whereas Google's downfall is when you use their service, all URLs are public and can be traced to the source.

Hope this clarifies my preference.