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Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup

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Re: Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup

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Post by Sujan »

Nice product and website! Haven't seen Dropbox used as a CDN before ;)

Being able too look at the backend of a demo competition would be great. This makes or brakes the tool for me. Additionally, I missed more information about the social network integration. Competitions and give-aways are big on Facebookm so how does it look and work there?

Re: Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup

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Post by Sujan »

treskot wrote: post #2

How is this any different when compared to rafflecopter.com?

Looking at rafflecopter, they power plain giveaways. Give me your name, you get the chance to win something. gleam.io seems to be more for competitions where users can do different stuff to get multiple entries. Quite a different product.

Re: Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup

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Post by AznHisoka »

This is a saturated field, as others said. But there's room for a competitor here. I would focus on the main social networks integration: Facebook, Twitter, and maybe maybe Pinterest. Everything else, including Mailchimp is overengineering.

Also I left a comment just now on your site. I wonder if it's possible to get all the Twitter oauth tokens when people enter through Twitter?

Re: Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup

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Post by dmak »

AznHisoka wrote: post #6

This is a saturated field, as others said. But there's room for a competitor here. I would focus on the main social networks integration: Facebook, Twitter, and maybe maybe Pinterest. Everything else, including Mailchimp is overengineering. Also I left a comment just now on your site. I wonder if it's possible to get all the Twitter oauth tokens when people enter through Twitter?

It is definitely a saturated space. However, only a few competitors are agnostic to platforms (Splurgy, RaffleCopter, gleam.io, and a few others). Other competitors such as OfferPop, Woobox, Shortstack, and etc... are all Facebook centric which means you cannot embed your contests/giveaways on your website; This means you won't be able to funnel your existing website traffic into your social properties.

Also, MailChimp is not over engineering at all. It's a very key feature. These integrations are important for marketing teams. After people socially engage into these contests/giveaways, their emails are captured and then can be ported into MailChimp where you can run e-mail campaigns.

Re: Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup

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Post by uts_ »

AznHisoka wrote: post #6

This is a saturated field, as others said. But there's room for a competitor here. I would focus on the main social networks integration: Facebook, Twitter, and maybe maybe Pinterest. Everything else, including Mailchimp is overengineering. Also I left a comment just now on your site. I wonder if it's possible to get all the Twitter oauth tokens when people enter through Twitter?

Co-founder here, I replied to you about oauth.

Integration with ESP's is critical to marketers, as someone mentioned below the key reason people run competitions is to drive sales/engagement with followup. Especially for Ecom.

There's a blog post going up in the next few days from Chris at Vero on this very topic :)

Re: Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup

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Post by uts_ »

Sujan wrote: post #3

Nice product and website! Haven't seen Dropbox used as a CDN before ;) Being able too look at the backend of a demo competition would be great. This makes or brakes the tool for me. Additionally, I missed more information about the social network integration. Competitions and give-aways are big on Facebookm so how does it look and work there?

I hear you on the backend demo :) Our frontend is all AngularJS, however the backend isn't. We plan to have a visual drag/drop builder once we do that.

We have most networks integrated from an entry perspective, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (No API currently), SoundCloud & YouTube. We've got Tumblr coming then adding based on demand.

Our Facebook tab solution is 90% completed, we're just testing it currently. Install to Facebook will be in the free plan, on Pro you'll be able to customise the tab/gate images :)

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