GummySearch helps you discover people in online communities that are experiencing the exact pain point your business solves.
How?
1. Discover online communities for your niche
2. Find relevant conversations in those communities
Let's dive into a step-by-step of
#1
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Just launched: GummySearch lifetime deal ๐ค
Available to beta users only, and for a limited time. Eventually this will get replaced with the annual plan.
If you're a champion of community-first entrepreneurship for the long-run, this deal is for you
To address extreme levels of audience research, weโve applied the following temporary limits:
- Paid subscription accounts are limited to analyzing 3M business ideas/day
- Day pass accounts to 750k business ideas/day
- Free tier accounts to 150k/day
@nocodedevs
๐ Discover online communities full of your customers
๐ฌ Turn them into customers when they express the pain points that your product solves
New features launching today:
๐ก Suggested Conversations
๐ฏโโ๏ธ Example Audiences
๐ Collections are now renamed -> Audiences
๐ More functionality coming to Audiences :)
๐งฎ Numbers are crunching!
Starting today, you'll start seeing growth & engagement stats on Subreddits included in your audiences
Top growing startup sub this week is the new r/productmarketfit community by
@NickFreiling
๐
Who's ready for another GummySearch demo?
Last time, we
โ Walked through the community discovery feature
โ Found a bunch of plumbers on Reddit
Today, we're going to
โฌ๏ธ Show off the conversation finder feature
โฌ๏ธ Talk about using conversations to supercharge your business
GummySearch helps you discover people in online communities that are experiencing the exact pain point your business solves.
How?
1. Discover online communities for your niche
2. Find relevant conversations in those communities
Let's dive into a step-by-step of
#1
...
๐
Doing the
#buildsell30
@microacquire
challenge?
Wanna go fast? โก๏ธ
We're going to sponsor you by giving participants full access to GummySearch for January
Discover business ideas, validate them, and find initial customers using Reddit audience research
DM
@foliofed
for access
New feature ๐จ
Take any of your audience's suggested conversations (pain points, solution requests, money talk, etc)
And FILTER based on another keyword to dive even deeper
Bonus: sort by upvotes or number of comments
Quick rundown on
@gummy_search
What is it?
It allows you to find customer pain points, and discover potential business ideas from Reddit.
We'll choose the "Solution Requests" feature
Say, I want to write a blog post & I'm searching for automation ideas.
I've been getting some amazing feedback from initial beta users.
An ask that came up a couple times is the ability to perform recent searches. A quick feature, and it's up!
Thanks for your feedback. Keep it coming!
GummySearch Pro subscriptions are live! ๐
See the new account page for a breakdown of features.
Are you an existing beta user? Use code BETA20 for a 20% discount for the next 12 months!
Thank you for being an early supporter of this product.
These are the 30 curated audiences in GummySearch, each hand-picked by data entry intern
@foliofed
They are available for all users to explore with one click
What other audience would you like to see in here?
Heads up that some gummy features will be impacted during this 2-day protest
If a subreddit goes private, it won't be discoverable via the search feature
Private subs also are not searchable
We'll make sure they become available/searchable again after 6/14!
Introducing Collections!
Collections are your saved lists of communities for a particular niche.
For now, you can use them to keep track of relevant communities, and easily kick off a conversation search
But there are big things in the works for Collections...
15% of GummySearch users know their niche but are still looking for a problem to solve within it
Today's release helps those 15%
From a community collection, you can browse the conversations that ask for
โข a tool/service to solve a problem
โข advice + resources (content)
๐ข Are you sad because your GummySearch trial is over?
๐ญ Are you crying because you're thinking of all the new features you're missing out on?
๐ป No need to worry, put those tears away. This bonus button might just make your day
I've noticed a lot of folks here are intimidated by Reddit
Most likely they had one bad experience, or took someone else's word as truth that Reddit is hard on self-promo
Huge missed opportunity
Here are 6 simple tips (w/examples) to promote on Reddit
In the first of the GummySearch customer spotlight series, we're excited to feature
@community_valid
by
@MatthiasGabrie6
and
@Moritz_ML
Here is the story of 2 incredible makers, delivering community-validated business ideas to your inbox
Apologies if you've had issues today. One of our data sources is experiencing a major outage
GummySearch programming intern
@foliofed
is porting over our APIs to use another source
In the future, we'll have resiliency using both and if one goes down, it's a quick switch
We're taking all those new Subreddit stats and bubbling them down to easy-to-understand labels
Which one of these Subreddits are you more likely to participate in?
Find yourself coming back to the same communities for your niche?
Tools coming soon:
๐ฟ Compile lists of communities for quick reference and sharing
๐ Save conversation queries to have an updated list of warm customer leads
Our latest newsletter is hitting inboxes ๐ฌ
Excited to feature 3 more Insanely Useful Websites this week from makers
@romeobellon
,
@foliofed
and
@dannypostmaa
- what do you think of this week's selection?
๐จ Announcing the new Starter plan!
After talking to many current customers, it's clear that for those ideating/validating new solutions, the Pro plan is overkill
So for just $9/mo you get access to the full audience discovery features of GummySearch!
๐จ Fancy new button alert!
Now you can save submissions that interest you, and they will show up in your tracked conversations tab!
Upcoming:
- saving comments as well
- similar submissions to those you save
GummySearch pricing is increasing on 5/2/2022 to reflect all the recent product improvements!
To lock in early-bird pricing for life, or restart your trial to see the latest, go to:
Community discovery update!
Added "Terminology" to be able to see what the community discusses at a glance.
Also included most popular submissions for the past month to show what kind of content performs best.
Every day, a hardworking robot lets in a few lucky folks off of the GummySearch waitlist.
Sick of waiting? Retweet this thread and send me a DM with your email address.
I'll get you a signup link to your free trial ASAP!
GummySearch helps you discover people in online communities that are experiencing the exact pain point your business solves.
How?
1. Discover online communities for your niche
2. Find relevant conversations in those communities
Let's dive into a step-by-step of
#1
...
๐
Hope you liked the walkthrough of community discovery!
If you've got questions, comments, or memes, they are welcome anytime.
If you have a friend that might be interested in using GummySearch to jump-start their customer acquisition, please feel free to share.
๐งธโ๏ธ
If you're wondering what
@foliofed
does to relax when he's not working on building GummySearch...
He's exploring the world of online communities and curating the best ones on
@thehiveindex
Hive Index is live on
@ProductHunt
today, go give it some love!
๐ก Search tip
Add "title:" to your search query to look for keywords in titles of Reddit posts ONLY
You'll get results more specific to your search term
Combine with Patterns for best results ๐ค
Thanks for following along, and for being a part of this journey with me.
I built this product for fellow makers after using this strategy successfully to market my own products, and I'm excited to share it with you.
๐ปโ๏ธ
-
@foliofed
Doing the
#buildsell30
@microacquire
challenge?
Wanna go fast? โก๏ธ
We're going to sponsor you by giving participants full access to GummySearch for January
Discover business ideas, validate them, and find initial customers using Reddit audience research
DM
@foliofed
for access
Free trial for new GummySearch users is now time-based instead of credit-based!
Reasoning for credits was to give early beta users opportunity to use the product throughout development without getting locked out
In October, all credit trials will roll over to time-based ones
โก๏ธ Instant Alerts
Rolling out the ability to get notified of your tracked keywords instantly, as opposed to in your daily digest
Perfect for brand monitoring!
Looking for beta testers, DM if you want any of your tracked keywords to be switched to instant mode
Today we're going to use the GummySearch discover feature to find some niche communities of plumbers.
(only on reddit for now, but expanding soon)
Why plumbers?
1. plumbing is important
2. there's a subreddit for everything these days
Let's talk about the beta.
The first community data source on GummySearch will be Reddit.
You'll be able to discover over 150k active subreddits, each one a microcosm of it's own.
Across them, there are 1/2 billion users.
Great thread on setting objectives for validation interviews.
Talking to customers before launching your product is one of the most impactful things you can do to ensure your product's success.
๐ Why interviews are so important ๐ก
Last week I had 4 interviews with people who could benefit from what I'm building.
It may not seem much, but they were already enough to help me validate the problem and make some changes to my product.
Update/Lesson๐งต
#buildinpublic
Launching the topics breakdown in
@gummy_search
!
โ View the popular/growing topics in any niche
โ Get insight into what each topic is about
โ Browse by subreddit, or by automatically tagged theme (pain points, solution requests, etc)
The 1 question that everyone's asking recently:
"What apps do gardeners really need?"
See this walkthrough of the new GummySearch Audience feature to find out once and for all
11 communities
6 million gardeners
1 new business opportunity
Why search for pain points in online communities?
Because realistically, people pay for painkillers when they need them rather than vitamins proactively.
Did you know that GummySearch was built as a product to promote
@foliofed
's other project
@thehiveindex
?
The process worked, but was manual and slow. GummySearch makes it such that the time to market the website is down to 5 minutes a day.
I'm quite proud of my
#SEO
progress for
@thehiveindex
Besides using
@gummy_search
to help share the resource to those asking for online community lists, I don't spend much effort on marketing at this time. This, good SEO is crucial.
When you win, we win ๐ค
That's why we put your main objective front and center
Check out your steps to success on GummySearch, as well as helpful content specifically for your use-case
I'm experimenting with day passes for my SaaS ๐
This is based off feedback that some folks do their research in spurts but not on a continuous basis. Same idea that made the past LTD option popular.
I'll report back how it goes! Anyone else try this?
Added 2 new utilities to the collection page today:
- suggested similar communities
- tracked keywords for that collection
More coming soon to a collection near you
Go make one if you haven't already (it's easy)
Sam believes in the Gummy motto
"Your first customers are out there, you just need to find them"
Excited for when GummySearch is the go-to not just for Reddit, but also Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Slack Discord
๐ก๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐: Growth Opportunities are ENDLESS ๐
Customers are everywhere, you just need to find them.
Instagram ๐
@tinrovic
Reddit ๐
@gummy_search
LinkedIn ๐
@MartelMetellus
Influencers ๐
@TaylorLagace
Twitter ๐
@Yannick_Veys
They are out there ๐
Should you make a brand account for your SaaS here on X?
Typical advice for indie makers is no, that you'll get more support from others on your personal account, and can use your growing audience to amplify future product launches under one roof.
But I disagree.
Yes, you
Haven't launched your product yet?
Check out this thread and launch with confidence, knowing your product will solve a problem people are willing to pay for.
The "Valley of Despair"
A place for founders that build & launch a product that nobody uses ๐ฆ
As a maker, it's the worst place in the world ๐ฅถ
Good news is that it can be avoided with the right directions ๐บ๏ธ
5 steps to validate your solution and launch with confidence
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