Flock
p/flock
Search your Twitter followers by Job,
Ryan Hoover
Flock — A CRM built on Twitter. Recruit, organize contacts, & more.
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Flock is a tool for Twitter power-users to search and stay updated on interesting people in their network.
Use it to query for investors, recruiting leads, or folks that like the same stuff. Flock also updates you when people change jobs in their profiles.
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Ryan Hoover
Very cool side project, @aaronykng. I created a hacky version of something similar for people I follow (not my followers) in Airtable. It serves as a CRM and is very helpful, although not comprehensive or fully up-to-date. We're going to use Flock for our new @yourstacks project at Product Hunt. 🥞
Adam Marx
@aaronykng @yourstacks @rrhoover I'll echo the sentiments here, very cool project! I'm curious to see how this might affect my Twitter usage, so will be interesting to see how I end up using it. Great build!
Jim
This product is useful, I can learn who is using my products with ease. I can't wait to see where things go!
Aaron Ng
@meanjim Thanks Jim!
Mike Smith
Reminds me a bit of @socialrank . Definitely a need for this. Like the detail of how you explain pricing ex. the cost of a burger and a beer
ronsheridan
Does it matter that there is already a well-established product which has been featured here on PH called Flock? (Flock.com, Flock.co) (https://www.producthunt.com/post...)
Aaron Ng
@ronsheridan Seems like there's a bunch of other Flocks, but I'm OK with that.
ronsheridan
@aaronykng Have you done a United States trademark search on the name? http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/sh...
Lydia Sugarman
I am so excited to get started using this! The possibilities are endless. What's there now is pretty great, but the upcoming features make it exponentially better. I'd like to also see the people I've followed but haven't yet followed back because... Definitely, being able to export to a spreadsheet to import into my CRM to trigger a workflow, drip campaign, etc. is high on my list.
Aaron Ng
@lksugarman Thanks for the feedback Lydia
Kunal Bhatia
Ooo..this could be useful. Nicely done @aaronykng! Similar to the thinking @rrhoover has, can this be turned into a CRM later? Perhaps be able to save searches, create lists, add meta data, etc.? I'd be able to keep tabs of all the product folks I want to reach out to when I want to get advice, for example. Being able to DM them directly from the search in Flock could be super handy!
Aaron Ng
@rrhoover @kunalslab Yeah, this is just the start. At some point saved queries and adding metadata will be all part of Flock. Thanks for the feature ideas!
Alex Arena
this is awesome @aaronykng. Twitter is sleeping on such a valuable network - props to you for beginning to surface some of that value for power users.
Aaron Ng
@alexarena Totally– I make so many friends on Twitter today. I just wanted to make something that made it easier to find people– it's definitely the network I use the most.
erwin blom
Why I don't start the 7 day free trial. I see why you do it, but please give me a 7 day trial and ask me after that week for creditcard data. I know startups choose this route because a lot of people will forget and start automatically paying, but I would respect it if people let that paymoment be a conscious decision.
Aaron Ng
Thanks for the Hunt @rrhoover! I made Flock because it was something I needed myself: I travel to conventions a lot and found that Twitter search was really bad at surfacing people. I wanted to go to Anime Expo and pull a list of everyone interesting to meet there– go to NYC and pull a list of every designer that follows me and pick one to grab a coffee with. There wasn't any easy way to do this, and in building this I found that there's a lot of people that might find it useful: • Founders can use this to find investors already following them and interested in their work. • Individuals can use this to find interesting folks with the same interests as them. • Professionals can use this to find other people at the same convention as them, since people tend to change their names to indicate they're at one. • Companies can use this to find recruiting leads by watching for Profile Updates in our daily feed. It can also filter out people that might already be following the account (so, Square Crypto could search for "Design, Crypto" and get a list of everyone that works in design and likes Crypto from their following. There are a lot more examples here, but hopefully this illustrates some of the stuff you can do. And there's more coming soon too– like ranking your most influential followers or getting a weekly digest of udpates.
David V. Kimball
I remember when Flock was the name of a Firefox-based social media-integrated browser. 😂
Aaron Ng
@davidvkimball There are definitely a lot of Flocks! I thought it was just appropriate here too.
Lachlan Kirkwood
Looks like a really valuable product for fostering relationships. Are there any plans to enrich user profiles with data from LinkedIn? Is it currently just filtering data in a users Twitter bio?
Aaron Ng
@lachlankirkwood It's just Twitter right now– and I'm thinking Instagram next. LinkedIn might be worthwhile too though, but it's just the one I personally use the least right now.
Kyle222
Great idea! Clever name too.. :)
Aaron Ng
@kyle_bristow Thanks Kyle
Jonathan Korn
Fantastic idea, and great execution. Great job!