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I want to launch the MVP of the product I'm working on right now and get at least ONE customer. I have no idea what I'm doing, making it all up as I go. If somebody could give me some feedback on the idea that would be great! http://folkrobots.com

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Just my first impression: can't you use Google Analytics API to see the inbound keywords people are coming from (so users don't have to add another tracker) and use, for example, AdWords API to generate similar keywords?

Hey, thanks for giving me your first impression. GA blasts you with lots of long tail keywords. It'll be up to you to figure out similar keywords yourself and check the competitiveness. Also, the competitiveness ranking from the Adwords API is based on how many people are bidding on that keyword, not how hard it is to rank in the search engine results. The application I'm building would analyze your inbound keywords and tell you which ones you should rank for.

People could use the GA API and Adwords API to build something similar. But that just goes into the argument of whether to build or to buy. Businesses would probably spend the money instead of building it themselves and wasting their engineer's time.

Tell me if you have any thoughts on my response. I'm thinking I really need to clarify the landing page but I'd rather finish building the MVP.

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