Show HN: I made a tool that automates competitor research for startups/hackers
competitoresearch.comHi 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
That looks like a useful tool. Identifying actual competitors is not as easy as it sounds, especially when one wants to start a new business. As far as I'm concerned I launched several SaaS businesses and everytime I've only been able to have a clear view of the competition after at least 6 months...
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!
Hey everyone, I used to spend 10s if not 100s of hours researching competitors, trying to make sure I know all of them and then figuring out what products they have, pricing, marketing and so on.
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!
Good luck with the launch! I wonder why the company I input comes up in the list of competitors :-)
Thanks for the feedback, I'm gonna remove that! It's because we have a bunch of different 'sources'. Adding a filtering step before the ranking now :)
Interesting, is it a paid product only?
Hey John, so right now it's free for you to find all your competitors. To see the complete report with all the details, you'll have to get one of the reports. Hope this helps!
What’s different about the way you find competitors?
So we use a bunch of different search algorithms to find your competitors vs. the standard keyword search style matching done on most search engines.
It's completely free to check out so try it out and let us know what you think!
Interesting idea, is it free?