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.
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.
Cool! Don't discredit raising prices with turning people away.
I was thinking of something similar last year but much simpler. I just wanted a single place to check all incoming requests. Not even a complete inbox, just a place all the notifications could go.
Any plans to hook into WordPress at all? Comments, bbPress/BuddyPress replies/topics, etc? Will there be any kind of custom incoming/outgoing with feed and endpoints? Any plans for a native mobile app?
Thanks!
A couple of questions;
1. Is there a desktop platform? 2. Any Add-on for Chrome?
Great work by the way.
We dont have a native desktop client at the moment, its a fully responsive Web-app so you can run it in any modern web browser.
We do have a Plugin for Chrome that makes it easy to Share from any web page - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stacker/bgckommphf...
I can't believe Google Plus doesn't have an API, I would love to cross-post my stuff, it's crazy!
We would be super happy if Google+ opened up their API. Its a great network, just needs to become more open!
* The marketing site should have screenshots. The app looks fantastic - you should show it off!
* When I installed the Chrome plugin all my (many) tabs reloaded. Is this normal?
* I never saw any mention of price until I discovered MORE > BILLING, and was surprised I ended up on the "team" plan. This needs to be worked into the onboarding somehow.
Typically, if you are a brand that posts to multiple Social accounts, you then need to login to each account before you can Reply/Favorite/Like incoming messages from fans and followers.
But is there any way to export our data ?
If not will you make an app ?
It may be too specific but my dream is a thunderbird like program to compose message offline / read them offline / search them offline and export my data.
My need may be too specific, but i will share your app in my circle btw.
Regards
And some of my friends too (cm manager will be interested too).
Being able to make excel stats , diagram & co will always give us a point.
Even for the online version
il will interest all the CM manager or public oriented account.
i will pass the word on my cm friend in september i'am off the social network for one month...
Regards
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Stacker is also the first Social Publishing tool that lets you create Photo Albums on the fly, which should be very helpful for pro photographers like yourself.
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)
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 all your Social Media accounts in one place.
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).
Stacker also supports using your own Custom domain to shorten links. Drop me a note at chris@getstacker.com once you've signed up for an account and I'll be happy to help you set it up.
You can rest assured that we encrypt all sensitive information before storing it in our databases.The security and privacy of our customers is our number One priority. The Only non essential field we ask for is your Date of Birth, and we only do that so that we can wish you on your special day.
Just a thought, your user base will likely consist marketers, promoters, social media businesses and people who actively use more than 2 social networks. Your pricing model is good, but if the service is as good as you say its then you may want to price "business" model a little higher.
I guess whats important is to gain an active user base first and then decide to slightly change the pricing model later on.
Right now, we are on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (many more in the pipeline). We want to be on all the networks as soon as possible and even go beyond just social networks (think Tumblr, Disqus and others)
You are absolutely right, our focus right now is building up the user base. We want to be as competitive as possible at this stage.
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
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.