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Show HN: GrowthHack as a Service – mturk + Google news api automation
- minimaxir 13y agoThat's not growth hacking, that's spam.
- makerops 13y agoThis isn't spam by any means; it manually collates the email addresses of thought leaders in your niche, and provides them to you. It's up to you to start a conversation.
- ceejayoz 13y agoI have a hard time accepting "this isn't spam" from someone who simultaneously uses buzzwords like "thought leader".
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- bassclef 13y agoThis is cool, been looking for something like this for mturk.
- blakerson 13y agoI was looking to hire out some market research like this! I'll likely be a customer soon.
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- robogrowth 13y agoAny ideas you might have for the site, please let us know. We're looking to continue to build on our MVP.
- jonathanjaeger 13y agoI'm not a lawyer and don't know the intricacies of the CAN-SPAM Act, but I think one provision is that you can't contact people via harvested emails gathered by bots/scripts. But this is done on mturk manually by people?
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- robogrowth 13y agoThat's correct, we're not bulk harvesting emails by any means. We use google news api to find blogs, and articles written about your niche based on search terms provided. We then research those blogs manually with real people using amazon mturk for crowd sourcing. We then provide you with the blogs, articles, and information about the author so you can begin interacting with them.. Reading their blogs, following them on social media, and maybe pitching them.
- watty 13y agoRight, they automated the manual process of gathering email... which I think is still automation?
- jonathanjaeger 13y agoHmmm, like I said I don't know the legal specifics, but if you scrape a site constantly, that puts a load on a server and has consequences. If you manually go to a site and find an email address that is publicly given for a reason, it's there because someone is willing to start a conversation about something.
- davemel37 13y agoI am not sure how this tool is any better than buzzstream or followerwonk or ontolo ... Lots of cheap, free, or more robust tools that do the same thing... I don't recall the company but if you look at the data providers on removeem.com they use a company with 80 million webmaster emails, etc...
- AznHisoka 13y agoHey Dave, what's your opinion on Buzzsumo for finding influencers and influential authors for outreach purposes?
- huhtenberg 13y agoDo you provide a trail to the email addresses? In other words - if you give me ivan@kremlin.ru, can I see how you arrived at including it in the list?
- makerops 13y agoWe do not right now, but it's not something that we couldn't work on getting rolled out this weekend.
- paulshapiro 13y agoSuper spammy
- uladzislau 13y agoHow exactly did you automated this? Isn't it nothing more than arbitrage? Why would I pay you $60 instead of hiring someone's on Odesk for $10?
- michaelbuckbee 13y agoI think with all of these sorts of outsourced items you have to factor in risk and quality. Having this very narrow niche lets them really keep the quality level high as they can tweak and QA across multiple jobs doing the same thing.
- bernatfp 13y agoThis is awesome. It reminds me of this (but automated): http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/09/24/google-news-api-mturk-press http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/09/24/google-news-api-mturk-... You should take it one step further and automatize email sending to the authors collected.
- ghaspland 13y agoI tried to place an order to how well the site works, and after I clicked the order submit button, the site errored out.
- dlsym 13y agoThe devise forms / stylesheets deserve a litte more love...