Ask HN: Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze
I’ve been working on a new product for the past couple of months. It’s a web app that allows companies to fully manage their social media presence, marketing campaigns, and market research. Basically, I thought there was a pain in doing social media marketing for companies and I tried to solve it.
It's a "swiss army knife" for social media marketing.
The app is called: SocialBlaze ( http://www.socialblazeapp.com - not a lot of info there yet cause we're in private beta). We’ve have a couple of small businesses beta testing it; but I'd like to get some more beta testers and feedback on the idea.
A quick summary of the main features you’ll see (so you can get a sense of what it does, and if you'd like to beta test) - Unified dashboard to manage all your social media
- You can do brand/keyword monitoring on all the major social media sites (blogs, twitter, flickr, youtube) (with sentiment analysis and change-over-time charts)
- Run promotions, polls on facebook and twitter
- Twitter client for business (assign tweets for followup, schedule tweets, and other little things that make it easier to use twitter for business purposes.)
- Manage facebook pages
- Manage, make blog posts
- There's analytics for everything and a dashboard showing you what's the most popular (e.g. what tweet has the most clicks, retweets, what blog post has the most views)
- Multiple workspaces/projects and users (with user permissions)
- We're also working on a scheduler where you can plan out various stages of your social media campaign and schedule things in advance
I'm wondering what you guys think of the idea and if it would be useful for your startup/company? If you're interested I'd also like to get some beta testers (free during beta, significant discount when we launch). If you’re interested please fill out this form: http://8it.us/n5m
Do you guys have any suggestions/advice/feedback on the service as I’ve described it? I'm interested to hear what industries you think this app will be the most useful for?
Thanks! And Happy New Year!