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mikerubini

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Entrepreneur and musician. Jazz lover. Padel addicted. I make SaaS products at https://flatnine.co
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mikerubini··on [dead]
In this case study, we are writing about a store doing $100k+/month selling no-content books, journals and card games.

Hope you enjoy it!

mikerubini··on [dead]
True.
mikerubini··on [dead]
Nope, we spot our own trends from different sources and do validation that way.

For example, if our tech founds on a forum that "adult coloring books" are trendy right now, it will double-check by checking Amazon and Walmart, too.

Then obviously, it checks Google Trends, too.

We don't stop there. We have a 4-stages process: source > analyze > enrich > forecast

mikerubini··on [dead]
Ah you are right! I've not read books about it, but I've seen movies. It's pretty much the same plot.
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a successful product using microdata
Cool! Will publish there next time. Thanks for the feedback! =)
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a successful product using microdata
Hi all,

Founder here.

I just wrote this informative blog post on how I built a product by researching microdata on my target market.

By scouring the web and collecting microdata, you can use clues left by your competitors’ customers to build your product around their weaknesses.

Their weaknesses become your UVP.

Hope you like it!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Thanks man! Let me tell you, it's not always like that! It's a roller coaster But, why not be positive? I get to work on something valuable and people are giving me great feedback!

And, there are definitely people out there who are in a worse situation than me, especially now with the COVID emergency.

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hey Noah,

Yep, we are. Well, let me tell you - there's a lot of noise xD Most of the time it's about finding enough people talking about something, but not too much.

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you rephrase it? Thanks for commenting!
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hello there,

Thanks for the comment. Again, here we are discussing two different things.

Interest for Zoom in the last 30 days has definitely grew and we reflect that. Take a look at https://treendly.com/trend/zoom under the "This week & month" tab.

The minus 50% is referring to the interest level of the last 30 days compared to the interest level in the previous 30 days.

Thanks for the feedback!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hey there, URL is optional. You are not the first one with this problem but all I'm doing is using a HTML5 input with its own validation (type=url) so not sure what's happening there.

I'll take a look. Thanks for the feedback!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
It does, if you look at for example, rising queries on Google. Pleasure!
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
It's not about the db collection at all unfortunately.

But, it's coming along! Thanks for the comment!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hey there,

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll fix it ASAP

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hello there, yes I’m aware and fixing.

Meanwhile please feel free to search in English.

Thanks for the feedback! =]

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Thanks for the feedback! I'll fix it
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hello Nico,

It depends on what you search. Just searching for "fitness" is not enough.

In fact, we did spot a trend. Look at trends like: - https://treendly.com/trend/at-home-workout?geo=FR - https://treendly.com/trend/gym-equipment-rental

You can also try searching trends directly in French (but without the special characters, please).

Thanks for commenting!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hey there,

Sure.

1 - Please read https://treendly.com/tech and https://treendly.com/models - those should answer this =)

2 - We are still in the process of dealing with special characters in our search. But, it's coming along! Right now you can search in pretty much all languages that do not require special chars (English, Italian, etc..).

3 - Spams? I don't understand the question

Thanks for commenting!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hey there,

Good observation. I personally do not spend a lot of time finding a domain, or a logo, or setting up the perfect onboarding sequence, etc..

The truth is the business can work out with whatever domain. I have another SaaS (in the e-com space) that started with the domain angage.net and now we have usecart.com - maybe if we grow we'll get cart.com

But, when you start, you don't need 99% of the things you'd think you need - and a good domain is one of them.

When I'm starting a SaaS I focus on its core features and making it profitable.

Just my 2 cents

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Nope, everything is ok
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Yep, you might also like our coronavirus case study: https://treendly.com/blog/coronavirus

Thanks for commenting!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Thanks! It's a nice addition and we plan to add more =)
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
We both find rising trends but we differ in so many ways.

First and foremost, we are an actual tool you can use, not a simple newsletter.

We give our users the ability to monitor a keyword/topic over time. As a user, you can receive daily, weekly and monthly email alerts.

Secondly, you can search a keyword/topic in any country and what you search stays private to you so that you can build your own private library of trends.

Thirdly, each trend has so many related topics that we find by querying Google, Amazon, YouTube, etc that you can dive into.

And finally, we have a beta feature where the tool forecasts how a trend will likely perform in the next 6 months.

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
That's a fantastic feedback! I'm going to do that now. Thank you!
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hey Kevin,

Sure, let me understand your needs a little bit more. What kind of software? Like a getrewardful.com ?

Also, feel free to connect over email: mike@rubini.solutions or Twitter: @mikerubini

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hello, sorry I missed this comment.

A lot of keywords/topics. We don't currently support languages with special characters. Please, search in English.

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
No, as I mentioned, I'm a master scraper.
mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Hello there,

Thanks! Yes, range modifier is coming, but also please take note that -50% is the change regarding the last 30 days compared to the previous 30 days.

This year the month over month growth in the US was 3.52% which is very good. And, the average interest was only 4.85% which tells me there's still a lot of margin for growth.

https://treendly.com/trend/zoom

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Our data relies on Google and it is based on what consumers are searching for. Specifically, it relies on Google Trends, Google News, Google searches, Amazon searches, Twitter searches and YouTube searches. We also have a partner for e-commerce data (usecart.com)

I'm not too worried. Everything that is publicly available and printed to a screen, I can take. So unless they completely shut down the service, I should be good =)

Thanks for the comment!

mikerubini··on Show HN: I built a service to discover and monitor rapidly growing trends
Interesting, thanks for the comment!
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