Competitor Pulse

Day 4 building in public. built RateCalc — tells influencers what to charge for sponsorships. → CPM estimate from real views → hourly rate breakdown → no signup, free 0 paying customers. would you use this? #buildinpublic

updated RateCalc based on creator feedback now shows: → CPM-based estimate using your actual views → real hourly rate breakdown someone said "$500 post taking 8 hours = $62/hr before taxes" that one reframe is worth more than any calculator #buildinpublic

got banned from r/ProductManagement today 😅 but not before 10,000 people saw the post turns out asking "how do you track competitors?" hits a nerve still 0 paying customers. still building. #buildinpublic

asked r/ProductManagement how they track competitors 6,800 people saw it in 6 hours top answers: → "just use AI + cron job" → "marketing owns it, nobody reads the deck" → "quarterly rotation, manual sweep" building something to fix the boring parts. Day 3 #buildinpublic

Day 2 building Competitor Pulse. Yesterday: 1,000+ Reddit views, 3 said "I'd pay for this" Feedback: → Detecting changes = easy → Filtering noise = hard → One email, clear deltas = what people want Still 0 paying customers. What ONE competitor alert matters most?

Quick question for SaaS founders: If you could get ONE competitor alert, what would it be? A) Pricing changed B) New job listings C) New features shipped D) Other? Building this — your answer shapes what's next 👇

@dino11 @aakashgupta built exactly this - competitor pulse monitors pricing pages, changelogs, job listings every morning and emails you when something changes. looking for beta users, free access in exchange for feedback. interested?

@aakashgupta wait this is actually sick the 1am pricing change thing is such a good point. by the time you check their site it's already back and you missed the signal been manually checking competitors way too much. this would save me hours every week

The competitive intel use case is the one that sold me. You configure OpenClaw with a Brave Search API key ($5). Tell it which competitors to monitor. It scans websites, G2 reviews, Product Hunt launches, Hacker News mentions, whatever avenues you specify. Every 30 minutes, hourly, or daily, your call. In the episode, it analyzed a podcast hosting competitor and identified three things: a migration tooling gap that could be a competitive wedge, a video integration opportunity that validated an existing hypothesis, and a risk that hosting platforms improving native builders could reduce standalone market share. Naman said he'd never thought about the migration angle before. The bot surfaced it from a web scan. Here's the part that matters for PMs. If a competitor changes their pricing page at 1am and reverts it by morning, that data point is gone. You never see it. OpenClaw caught it because it was watching at 1am. Six months of those scans create a queryable history. Ask for a trend line of competitor changes. The bot has every data point from every scan. No other tool does this. Claude Cowork can't watch a website every 30 minutes and persist with its memory for months. Lindy and the agent browsers can't either.

@Fatima_RP120 @perplexity_ai competitor tracking is exactly this - weekly manual work that should be automated. building a lightweight tool that emails you when rival pricing/changelog/jobs change. still early but solving my own problem first

The strongest AI products save time on weekly work like SEO audits, competitor tracking, market briefs, and ops reporting. Perplexity Computer fits perfectly, and @perplexity_ai is pushing the right angle. perplexity.ai/computer

@saimagnate totally agree - most people only do surface level competitor research. built something that automates the boring part: daily checks on pricing pages, changelogs, job listings. the insight layer is still manual but at least you don't miss when something changes

the three types of channels and what each teaches you when you're doing competitor research:

@stellytips1 @X Building Competitor Pulse - automatic competitor tracking for SaaS founders. Pricing changes, hiring signals, changelog updates. Looking for beta users!

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@robert_shaw Building Competitor Pulse - monitors your SaaS rivals' pricing pages, changelogs, and job listings. Emails you when something changes. Day 1 of building in public, 0 paying customers 🚀

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Day 1 of building in public. Built a tool that watches your SaaS competitors so you don't have to. Pricing pages, changelogs, job listings - checked every morning, emailed when something changes. 0 paying customers. Looking for 5 beta users. Would you use this? #buildinpublic