chrisdc's comments

On: YC S17 Rejection/ Acceptance

[chrisdc]

Agreed, I read this on an Ask HN as well!

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

Thanks!

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

Yes you can! The Stacker Inbox does just that :)

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

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)

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

Buffer is a great tool, however it only supports Publishing while Stacker supports both Publishing and Replying from one app.

I wrote a blog post on the core advantage we offer recently https://www.getstacker.com/blog/4/the-million-problem

Excellent feedback on the pricing! Right now our main focus is to grow our customer base.

[mbesto → chrisdc]

> Right now our main focus is to grow our customer base.

Cool! Don't discredit raising prices with turning people away.

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

Very pleased to hear that!

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

Haha...super cool! Thanks for sharing

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

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.

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

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

On: Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media

[chrisdc]

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.

[sjs382 → chrisdc]

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).

[chrisdc → sjs382]

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 :)