What are some products/services that you pay for that I could improve/compete with?

Mahzkrieg

Mahzkrieg

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My side-project plate has freed up and I've been interested in working on tools in our space. -- In particular, I'd like to develop tools with better offerings than current solutions.

For example, I've developed a library that implements most of Scrapebox's features a la carte. Since I'm using Java, it works cross-platform unlike Scrapebox. However, I'm still a ways off since I'm new to Java UI development and would like to focus on simpler tools in the meantime.

My specialty is in developing web-services rather than desktop-apps, but a web-service doesn't always make sense (like in Scrapebox's case where scraping is distributed across users).

I've been trying to deduce the most popular tools that people are paying for from sorting through Digitalpoint, Warriorforum, and Wickedfire, but the signal-to-noise ratio is just arduously low.

  • Can anyone enumerate the popular/community-favorite tools for anything from keyword-generation to SERP rank-trackers to content spinners?
  • What are some features you yearn for in the tools that you use?

Let's say FoobarSpinner is the WF community-favorite app for generating unique content from the text you paste into a textbox, but everyone agrees that it sucks for reasons A and B, and it desperately needs features X and Y. I'd like to build a better offering no matter how trivial.

Ideally I'd iteratively develop things with WFer feedback.

(On another note, it's frustrating that by the time I developed the skills to build anything I desire, I've lost the visions and intuitions about what I should build. Yet it's those visions and intuitions that inspired me to learn these skills in the first place.)
 


Best spinner is WordAI. And good luck trying to compete with that.
 

Unfortunately OP, and I don't say this lightly, and particulary don't like cursing when talking to people but:

You can't fuck with Cardine... YOU... CANNOT...

Sorry. Not at your level... not at any level. Dude went to school to study artificial intelligence... he didn't just sit down and say, "oh I'm going to create a spinner as a side project..."

I'd move on to another project. There are just certain barriers that are too high, and if you don't even have the dedication enough to finish projects... Well... Good luck bro...
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I certainly didn't mean to seem like I was trivializing WordAI.

WordAI is much like Ahrefs and Majesticseo to me -- it's the kind of thing I would get huge intellectual satisfaction from working on (can you imagine managing your own independent link graph?) but I haven't yet deluded myself with enough Dunning-Kruger effect to jump into that.

I'd also rather compete with people outside of WF. Yall my crew.

smaxor said:
Can always use better fb scrapers.
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Can you give an example of what you're scraping? I work on distributed FB graph clients at $dayjob but never had to go beyond the graph API.

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Just saw this thread: http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/174368-positionly-serp-checker-sucks.html

SERP rank tracking is fun and similar to the things I already build.

Mentioned in that thread:

- https://positionly.com/
- Rank Checker Ace
- http://www.micrositemasters.com/ <-- Run by Bofu2u + Cardine?
 
One that would likely bank for a while would be a good negative seo service. I'm not personally interested in using one. My real interest is seeing something effective and push-button enough to force big G to re-evaluate their current course.

The key would be automating some of the effective tactics that have nothing to do with inbound links. Think duplicate content, pubsubhubbub, and highly trusted parasite hosts for example.
 
I think there's a decent market in providing tracking solutions for noobs. If you can find a way to put tracking into an easy UI that integrates with Analytics or something of the like, you might find yourself a little pot of gold.
 
IF you manage to make PPC bid automation tool for a low fixed price, I think you would make a lot of money. The current solutions are for big players only and their price corresponds with your budget, which is not very convenient.
 
Kayle Buttler said:
IF you manage to make PPC bid automation tool for a low fixed price, I think you would make a lot of money. The current solutions are for big players only and their price corresponds with your budget, which is not very convenient.
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+1 for this
 
PPC bid automation is a great idea. I've been running one successful PPC campaign for years without turning any knobs in a while so I'm pretty primitive.

I'm about to ramp up some new campaigns and I'll begin to build an idea of what a real PPC workflow looks like.

golan said:
http://www.wickedfire.com/traffic-content/174245-mozcast-metrics.html#post2076382
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Another good idea that's more in line with the kind of stuff I regularly build.

Scraping/API requests for the same 1,000 keywords is much easier than building a system that has to scale a scrape for every additional user. I like it.
 
Mahzkrieg said:
Perfect, thanks.

Knowing what people are actually using is plenty illuminating.

That looks like a fun project, and it's not as mystifying as you may think: Apache OpenNLP - Welcome to Apache OpenNLP with co-occurrence would satisfy the standard plan. The Turing Package is probably the only package that uses the corpus of the full text.
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I don't think you are trying to compete with me, and I think Kaedus and CCarter have done a good job expressing this, but I just noticed this thread and wanted to address this misconception.

I talk a lot about building products with barriers to entry, and in this case I practice what I preach. Three programmers (myself included), and two linguists have been working on WordAi full time for the past two years, continuing research done by me and a couple classmates while at Carnegie Mellon. All of that work is centered around understanding and representing language, and in a manner far more complex than any available libraries.

So with that being said, I can say without a doubt that both the Standard Plan and Turing Plan use technology that far exceeds the scope or capabilities of OpenNLP, or any other similar libraries.
 
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