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Find your competitors' socials

Up to 3 company profile URLs per competitor, ranked by followers, taken only from their own site.

4 steps3 rulesStep 7 of 7 in Research a market

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Purpose::

Know where your direct competitors live on social media: up to 3 profile URLs each.

Rules::

  • Company profiles only, as the profile root URL: no founders, posts, tabs or ?params
  • Only profiles linked from the competitor's own site; nothing guessed
  • Up to 3 per competitor: where it has the biggest following

Inventory::

  • Your direct competitors list
  • Their homepages (header, footer, about page)

Steps::

  1. 1Per homepage: collect the social links
  2. 2Open each profile once; note its followers (not shown: "?", ranked last)
  3. 3Keep the 3 biggest per competitor
  4. 4Reply: one line per profile: competitor · platform · followers · URL

Metrics::

  • Every URL opens a company profile
  • Each competitor has 0-3 real profiles
Research.md

Purpose:: Find the problem worth building this week and the searches people type around it.

Steps::

  1. 1. Group pains and buyer words that mean the same thing
  2. 2. Keep groups backed by 2+ notes and relevant now or within 2 years
  3. 3. Pick the strongest pain; name it as a thing in a few words
  4. 4. Write the problem: <who> struggle to <job> because <reason>

Shortlist a problem worth building

Group research notes into pains, pick the strongest one, and list how people search for it.

Research.md

Purpose:: Choose the search term to build for and show why it beat the rest.

Steps::

  1. 1. Get volume and cost per click for every term; score and sort
  2. 2. Top 3: read each 5-year trend as rising, steady, falling or spiky
  3. 3. Top 3: search each; note what ranks and where the gap is
  4. 4. Pick the winner, even if none is perfect

Pick the winning search term

Weigh volume, cost per click, 5-year trend and what already ranks, then pick one term and say why.

Research.md

Purpose:: Find the 5 strongest products that already ARE your idea, and gather what they do, so you build with proof.

Steps::

  1. 1. Write Is (the product), Is not (what looks close but isn't) and Looks like (its homepage hero)
  2. 2. Search your idea + up to 4 terms; collect unique domains
  3. 3. Open each homepage; quote its hero line; keep it only if it fits Is and not Is not
  4. 4. Search "<best direct> alternatives"; check each new name the same way

Find your 5 direct competitors

Find the 5 strongest products that already are exactly what you want to become, with proof.

Research.md

Purpose:: One table: each direct competitor's best feature, who it is best for, and its cons from real reviews.

Steps::

  1. 1. Per competitor: read the homepage; note its best feature and who it is for
  2. 2. Search "<domain> reviews" (the domain, not the brand name)
  3. 3. Read 1-2 review pages; note the cons people repeat
  4. 4. Reply with the table, one "Gap for us" line and one Sources line

Score competitors from real reviews

One table per market: each competitor's best feature, who it is for and its cons from real reviews.