chrisdc

Agreed, I read this on an Ask HN as well!

Will be launching the API mid next week :)

You are right, but with our Amazing plan you can have 2 way communication with your Twitter followers for just $10/month and upto X = 12 Twitter accounts with in-depth click tracking and lots lots more :)

Thanks!

We will consider that although I'm not sure the economics would work out.

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.

Yes you can! The Stacker Inbox does just that :)

Could be, but I think at the very least they should open it up for G+ Pages.

I'm happy to share. I'll do a blog post on this down the line, but here's the outline....

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)

Buffer is a great tool, however it only supports Publishing while Stacker supports both Publishing and Replying from one app.

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.

Very pleased to hear that!

Haha...super cool! Thanks for sharing

Hi ljsocal, unfortunately we require every single permission we ask for in order to provide all the functionality we currently do. If its a specific permission you have issue with, I'm more than happy to elaborate on exactly why Stacker needs it.

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.

Thanks! I appreciate the feedback, will be sure to forward this to our design team. For the moment please accept a link to our Press Packet that includes screenshots of the app https://s3.amazonaws.com/stacker_assets/press.zip

Stacker has a very well featured Free-for-Life plan (everything that Circular offers and more)!

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.

You are absolutely right, the Inbox is Stacker's most used feature. We find users coming back multiple times a day to respond to incoming requests from their fans and followers.

We would be super happy if Google+ opened up their API. Its a great network, just needs to become more open!

I like the idea of a CSV export. It shouldn't be too difficult to do since we have all the data with us. Our PDF reports are very detailed though. Will be sure to pass this on to our Dev team. Thanks!

Very interesting. I will be sure to forward that to our development team.

Yes absolutely! With Stacker you can post to.. * just your Personal Profile or * just your Business page or * to both your Personal and Business page(s) at the same time :)

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.

Yes, you can turn off link-shortening if you like. If you do choose that option, the only thing you wont see is the Click tracking under Reports.

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.

Great question!

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.

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much for the kind words!

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...

Stacker isin't so much of a "WUPHF" as it is a Central place for you to Publish and Reply across all your Social Media accounts at once.

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.

As the founder of Stacker, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have

Noted, many thanks for the feedback!

Many thanks for the feedback.

I'm not sure I agree with "You're adding a limit to an existing technology which never in the past had one.". Right now you cant create/upload Photo Albums from any of our competitors' solutions so other than opening up Facebook to add in a photo album there's no way to Schedule the posting of an album. Support for additional Social Platforms is coming soon. Just wrote a blog post covering this one https://www.getstacker.com/blog/5/everything-we-are-working-...

Any input on how we could improve this would be much appreciated. Right now we detail this in the "Universal Inbox" section but that needs to be after the "Multiple social accounts" and the "Auto scheduling" snippets.

I'm not aware of such a rule. I think thats a bit of a grey area. As long as you are adding value to the network and not being a spammy-bot I dont think they will have an issue here.

Epic reply! Thank you so much for taking the time to put that down. Will review each of the points you mentioned with the team first thing tomorrow and have the site updated.

Thanks! The unified inbox is a big technical challenge at scale, I'm guessing that the reason why none of our competitors are doing it yet. Pushing out updates is relatively much easier (which the Stacker Outbox does in addition to the Inbox functions)