Competition is a good thing - keep track of it
Published by Justin October 5th, 2006 in General Business, Practical Tips, Rails, Ruby, StartupI just saw this free tool called Competitious on TechCrunch and it looks like it might be pretty handy for anyone looking to keep tabs on their competitors. It’s pretty simple, but it’s probably a good start for most people. Before this, we’ve been using a variety of spreadsheets offline and online (google spreadsheets), RSS feeds and sporadic browsing. Competitious basically tries to consolidate those activities into a nice slick (ajax-ified) interface. It’s free to signup and use and you can create multiple projects and invite people to have access to your project. Here are some of the core features:
- Track news clippings and blog posts about all the competitors in a project
- Get a username/password protected RSS feed of the news (this gave me an error when I tried it but I’m sure it’ll get fixed soon)
- Create features and feature groups and view how all the competitors stack up on a big competitive matrix
- View basic traffic data and stats from alexa for each and compare them graphically (via alexaholic)
- Collaborate through commenting and "clipping" news stories into comments
If you’re curious, like Menuism, it’s built on Ruby on Rails. Check it out.
- Justin
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