sharath39

Nicely built.

I'm not a developer but as a builder, I can sense how much time Defang will save when deploying apps.

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Content creators shouldn't be at the mercy of social platforms and should have control over their content.

That's why I'm launching Blubi, a social content backup platform powered by AI.

Blubi is like Dropbox but for your social content. It is also your content DJ where you can remix your tweets into long form, short form, YT/TikTok scripts, or a tweetstorm!

Would love to hear any feedback.

Thanks for the shoutout Abhinaya! Glad to have you as our user.

Paddle take care of everything.

Wow! I buffer pioneered many things, a wall of love one among them! The only beef I have is, the page loads so slow because of Twitter embeds. That's where Shoutout outcompetes Twitter.

Our embeds loads ridiculously fast!

Thanks for the feedback Chris! Will make it better.

Haha thanks!

I build in public. Almost all the traffic is organic and since we do share lessons, highs, lows transparently, people love us.

Thanks Andrew!

LP means landing page. Sure happy to share the stack.

For the landing page, I used carrd.co, mailerlite for wait-list signups. For MVP I used bubble.io, Twitter API.

We use Paddle and it takes care of the currency when you enable the feature.

Actually my technical co-founder is better to answer this question.

Thanks guys! Love what you are doing and glad you are our customer!

So on point! Thanks Alex :)

Agree with you. Also we are not asking anyone to form any behavior. People naturally give shoutouts to others(depends on their work) and we believe it should be used to our leverage instead of buried deep under these social platforms. That's where Shoutout comes in picture.

Awesome to hear that. I'm so glad you loved the our idea and the product.

Would love to see a wall of love for Circles for Zoom. Btw big fan of what you are building!

Thanks! Couldn't put in a better way.

What you said about social proof is absolutely true! It is the relevancy that helps people make a decision and through credibility it is even easier.

We believe the same. In the age of information overload building credibility on the Internet is tough. That's why we are building Shoutout. It will dig the unbiased positive shoutouts and help creators, startups build credibility.

Interesting ideas. Thanks for these. We will look into it and implement accordingly.

We don't ask for permissions. We believe in positive-sum game.

Social proof is given in the first place by people to people whose work or service made a positive impression on them.

We focus to showcase that and leave the rest.

True. Our algorithm decides which ones are the best shoutouts you can use and we suggest it to you.

Can you be more little more specific?

The tweets we suggest are high-signal and we believe it will help your product, newsletter or whatever you are selling.

Thanks for checking us out.

We have build an algorithm that curates the high-signal mentions and we suggest them to you.

We have a mechanism in place to avoid the low-niosy tweets.

There are many reasons why people are paying for it:

1. Save time - We find the best shoutouts for you so you don't have to search them in bookmarks and find them. 2. Design beautiful walls - We are offering design layouts(grid view, carousel view) with custom settings like changing colors, dark mode etc. 3. Zero maintenance - Once you setup an embed on your website you are done. All you need to do is add shoutouts to your wall and the embed automatically reloads with news shoutouts. 4. Ultra-fast embeds - Our embeds load ridiculously faster than Twitter embeds. 5. We are not just limiting ourselves to Twitter but will expand it other platforms. So we are here to monopolize the social proof niche.

Thanks KP for being an early believer since day 0 :)

Yes, daily/weekly reminders is a feature we already planned. Stay tuned, for it to become live.

Love it. This is some great feedback Ranuko. Definitely going to consider adding domain limitations on walls and adding agency pricing.

Thanks and appreciate your time checking it out!

Hey there HN community

I'm Sharath co-founder at Shoutout. This is my first posting a product on HN so I'm pretty stoked at the same time heavily nervous about it!

Five months ago, I had this idea of gathering all the shoutouts I get on Twitter under one place, and I thought it would be cool to launch an LP and validate it with everyone. As a no-code maker, I shipped the LP in less than 24hrs, got 120+ signups, and saw people saying we need this! I then shipped a no-code MVP, tested it with few close friends who asked for more features. The signs were so clear that I went ahead and put a bat-signal on Twitter searching for a co-founder. Curtis Cummings from nowhere approached me, and we clicked in our first meeting and started building a fully coded product.

We launched our private beta 2 months ago and got the opportunity to onboard some iconic creators like Jack Butcher, Julian Shapiro, Lenny Rachitsky, and startups like On Deck and Knowable. We've iterated on our early believers' feedback and made a product that delivers value to creators and startups!

A month ago, we launched Shoutout to the public and on Product Hunt and secured #3 product of the day. We now have 36 paying customers and got Product Maker Grant Recipient award.

Today, I'm pumped to announce Shoutout to the Hacker News community! We truly believe creators and startups should leverage the social proof they are getting on Twitter, and our mission is to make it easy for everyone!

Shoutout lets you tap into your existing social proof and turn it into a beautiful "Wall of Love"

How does it work?

Curate and Organize: With an infinite feed that is constantly updating every second, tracking social media shoutouts* is an invaluable task! Shoutout removes the tediousness and spotlights all the high-signal tweets in one place.

Customize and Design: We believe in personalization and value the importance of custom branding. Shoutout quickly turns the bunch of tweets into a beautiful wall within minutes. Rearrange these shoutouts according to your need and add custom colors that represent your brand.

Showcase and Embed: Share your public wall or embed it directly on your site without any coding. Our embeds are blazing fast, so they won't slow down your site. As you update your wall, your embed will show all of your latest shoutouts, making the experience frictionless.

What's next: We are not stopping here, and this is just the beginning of our mission to help creators and startups to leverage the social capital they gain on Twitter! We are excited to launch many more features based on your feedback and look forward to delivering more value to you constantly!

If you have any feedback, feel free to comment or say hello to us on Twitter @shoutoutso_!

Thanks for pointing me to the right path. Do you know how to post in Show HN instead of Ask HN?