Show HN: I made a tool that automates competitor research for startups/hackers
https://www.competitoresearch.com/
Hi HN! After months of coding in my free time, I wanted to share Competitor Research [https://competitoresearch.com], a tool that helps you find and research your competitors.Problem: Most competitor analysis tools are 1. Time consuming: These tools get you the data, but you still have to do the work of knowing what to look for 2. Expensive: Most tools like Ahrefs, SEMRush cost $99+/month. Other more niche tools can cost $1000+/month. For enterprise software it can be $100K+, for consultants, it can be ~$2K+ 3. Requires you to know who your competitors are 4. Not comprehensive: Mostly provides only SEO related info/social media information 5. No actionable insights
Solution: We tried our best to help startups/solopreneurs/makers get the best possible experience when researching their competitors. Here’s what we ended up making:
1. We help you find your competitors by combining several different sources and ranking the ones most relevant to your business.
2. We use multiple data sources and provide a comprehensive overview of your company: 1. SEO Keywords - what keywords do your competitors rank for 2. Backlinks - who’s linking to your competitors 3. Pricing - what your competitor’s pricing model is 4. Traffic - where they get traffic from 5. Website performance - how does your competitor’s website perform 6. Target audience and messaging
3. We provide you with actionable insights, things you can do to improve your business (get more customers, improve pricing, improve copy)
4. It’s a one time fee of $79, which is a steal compared to other tools
Thanks a lot for reading through this :) We'd love to hear any feedback/comments you might have!
Adam
I spoke to a bunch of people and realised that I wasn't alone. Part of it is wanting to get ideas for features but it's also wanting to know how to grow the business.
I've noticed I tend to watch movies based on how feel so I tried to mimic this behavior with Mood2Movie.
I tried to mimic the research flow I use and built tools to run these reports so everyone has access to them and can save a lot of time.
If you're also spending a lot of time researching or maybe you haven't done enough competitor research, give us a try, and hopefully you'll get a lot of insights!
Hope you enjoy using it!
It's completely free to check out so try it out and let us know what you think!
And then once entrepreneurs find their competitors on your platform, they can track them on social media thanks to my platform: https://kwatch.io :)
Good luck with the launch!