RivalSeek
Web and SaaS
competitor research
SHOW HN2015
189points
61comments
#96of 2,565 in 2015
Top 4%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 13 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Execution: 4 for, 8 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Surfaces relevant, non-obvious competitors
From 3 comments
I am completely endorsing this. This is actually really good. I did 6 months of research, and came up with 120+ companies in the space and 20+ serious competitors, and in typing…
1arity on HNThis is really good. Turned up some extremely relevant yet non-obvious results.
cstavish on HNWow this works great! I tested it on a few random company ideas I had, and it returned very relevant potential competitors.
xasos on HN
Clean, solid UI
From 1 comment
Seems to be quite popular right now. I really like the idea and the execution seems very solid from a UI standpoint. Best of luck. I will keep my eye on this to see where things…
bkmartin on HN
Objections
Site frequently slow or down under HN traffic
From 3 comments
We seem to have killed it (at least, my search terms resulted in an interminable loading screen). Please, people, lay off it while they can figure out some scaling!
samcheng on HNNo search results appear, how is this better than Google again?
wpcoder on HNDoesn't seem to be loading for me.
dmarlow on HN
Irrelevant or duplicate results
From 4 comments
I had to try it: http://cl.ly/image/1c3X1h2D0z1S https://rivalseek.com/search/index.php?searchterm=find+competitors It seems there is a pretty major bug (see the results and…
mangeletti on HNGood job, the service looks very nice. Unfortunately I didn't get a single relevant result for my query...
spdionis on HNPretty nice. When testing this out I was getting multiple entries of the same domain. Once I added it to my landscape there would be a couple more in the list and I couldn't get…
bkmartin on HNThat kind of worked, 1 was HipChat, 1 was somewhat relevant, 2 were social networking products and the last was "Free XXX Webcam Chat, Sex Cams and live swingers"
andymcsherry on HN
Search for company names returns poor matches
From 2 comments
So I entered HipChat, and it told me HipChat, Atlassian, Jira and Bitbucket were our competitors...
andymcsherry on HNIt's an interesting idea, though I'd rather put in company names than keywords and have you tell me who is working in the space. For example, if I search with a variety Real…
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Requests
Accept company names as input
From 1 comment
It's an interesting idea, though I'd rather put in company names than keywords and have you tell me who is working in the space. For example, if I search with a variety Real…
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Provide an API
From 1 comment
API available? It would be nice and reduce resource usage due to people not having to crawl the page. If you need help building the api let me know
bliti on HN
Add a donation or cheaper option for hosting costs
From 1 comment
Set up a Paypal Donate button so we can chip in for your hosting costs
dirkdk on HN
Questions
How is traffic data sourced and how reliable is it
From 2 comments
Thank you. Is this data free ? How reliable you think it is ?
ychantit on HNReally nice app I got good results. Can I ask you a question : How are you doing to get website traffic for competitors ?
ychantit on HN
How the search works
From 2 comments
I am completely endorsing this. This is actually really good. I did 6 months of research, and came up with 120+ companies in the space and 20+ serious competitors, and in typing…
1arity on HNHow does it work? Looks like David Blaine street magic. I'm getting pretty good results even if keywords are really poor.
johnnydoebk on HN
Alternatives named
alternative.to
From 1 comment
It seems to return better results than alternative.to (or similar), crunchbase and angellist for the queries I tried.
mtmail on HN
Crunchbase
From 1 comment
It seems to return better results than alternative.to (or similar), crunchbase and angellist for the queries I tried.
mtmail on HN
AngelList
From 1 comment
It seems to return better results than alternative.to (or similar), crunchbase and angellist for the queries I tried.
mtmail on HN