Would like to see some screenshots on the frontpage. I don't want to give access to my social profiles if I can't actually see what benefits something gives me (text just doesn't cut it)
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
For some reason I just assume that HootSuite, TweetDeck, etc. all do this, no? I use Buffer and don't see anything entirely compelling to switch. I also have tried HootSuite and the rate limiting and interface bugged the hell out of me.
Also, up your pricing. I bet you'll get more customers. I'd recommend: Free (for 30 days, no credit card), then $5/month, Amazing at $25/month and biz at $100.
I was thinking of something similar last year but much simpler. I just wanted a single place to check all incoming requests. Not even a complete inbox, just a place all the notifications could go.
Any plans to hook into WordPress at all? Comments, bbPress/BuddyPress replies/topics, etc? Will there be any kind of custom incoming/outgoing with feed and endpoints? Any plans for a native mobile app?
I don't have much to say, but your idea is something I also thought about a year ago when it comes to managing social media accounts and being able to publish posts simultaneously all on one platform. I'm happy to see that somebody also had the same train of thought and made it a reality.
A couple of questions;
1. Is there a desktop platform?
2. Any Add-on for Chrome?
Great, just another question, will you expand to other social media platforms any soon?
Just a thought, your user base will likely consist marketers, promoters, social media businesses and people who actively use more than 2 social networks. Your pricing model is good, but if the service is as good as you say its then you may want to price "business" model a little higher.
I guess whats important is to gain an active user base first and then decide to slightly change the pricing model later on.
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.
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!
Well done guys, this is really slick. Some feedback:
* The marketing site should have screenshots. The app looks fantastic - you should show it off!
* When I installed the Chrome plugin all my (many) tabs reloaded. Is this normal?
* I never saw any mention of price until I discovered MORE > BILLING, and was surprised I ended up on the "team" plan. This needs to be worked into the onboarding somehow.
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.
It may be too specific but my dream is a thunderbird like program to compose message offline / read them offline / search them offline and export my data.
My need may be too specific, but i will share your app in my circle btw.
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!
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.
As a pro photographer, this could very useful. Is it possible to post to my business page on FB and not my personal page? They have the same sign in, and I simply switch back and forth from the FB menu. I have never found a social media manager that can handle this.
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.
This is very nice. I'm curious about your technology stack for putting this all together, if you wouldn't mind sharing some behind the scenes I'd be most grateful.
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)
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.
Which is probably great for your audience, but isn't right for me. That said, I'm probably one of the worst customers for a social app—I'm cheap and I derive only a little bit of value from social networking/marketing.
What I get from Circular.io (and Stacker doesn't seem to offer in the free plan?) is the ability to schedule posts for X twitter accounts (currently, X = 8).
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 :)
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.
love the idea and I know I'd use it extensively but there's no way I'm giving such broad FB profile/activity access. Eliminate that and you have a winner.
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.