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Meteor.link — Retarget anyone who clicks on your links.
Meteor.link allows marketers to easily build an audience by sharing links and retargeting on Facebook anyone who clicks on the them.
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This is smart. Like the narrow focus here @casnillig. Can see this solving a problem for folks 👌
Why should I use you and not a competitor like retargetlink? They offer something more.
Okay so I think this ain't affiliated with Medium in anyway so I think you should mention that below. A .tld with 'Medium' sounds so official. Great job @cassinellig, but do explicitly mention that please :)
@casinellig @ambonium that's an awesome comment, Amrith, I'm adding that asap. Thanks for checking it out!
@casinellig @ambonium Was also confused by the branding. Font choice on the homepage was probably the tipping point, appreciate you changing!
@casinellig @ambonium The branding is very much "medium-esque" and with the medium + tld i was equally confused. It appears that the change has already been made, as I saw it in the footer when I explored the site.
Cool concept.
@dredurr hey man, thank you for your comment. Regarding the domain, the reason we chose it was to make the link between the USP of the product and the audience we're trying to serve easier to understand. On the design end, can you please help me understand a little more what made you think this is similar? I would really appreciate if you can give some specific examples (the more specific the more useful for us) to help us improve, since nobody on the team has a design background? We tried to do the best we can to come up with a minimal site as we know Medium audience has a minimal taste. Thanks in advance for the help! 🙌🏻
@casinellig The color scheme, font choice, and layout are exactly like medium.
If I did not notice the "not affiliated with medium" on the bottom. I would have never noticed that it was not a medium product.
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Pros:clever way to continue engaging with your readers on other platforms
Cons:more retargeting options
@dmarcinkowski_ whoa, that means a lot! Thanks for this encouraging comment, Daniel 🙌
This does solve a problem, but it's the same solution as geni.us, clickmeter.com, and basically any other link shortening tool.
I'd also say a huge value prop of Medium is the organic audience/distribution that's baked into the platform. This only retargets people who you've driven from other channels—which is also worth mentioning.
Love the concept though!
@connorstweetin Thanks Connor! The sites you mentioned actually don't work with Facebook Pixel (as far as I'm aware). For example ClickMeter helps by letting you monitor / compare / optimize your marketing links, and showing a consolidated view with conversion rates etc.
We don't do any of that. We add a Facebook Pixel so that you can instantly, and with zero coding, do Facebook ads retargeted to everyone who clicked on your links.
@connorstweetin @casinellig With Geniuslink (geni.us) we support any pixel firing including Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
Unfortunately, we aren't alone in this either - https://blog.geni.us/2016/03/25/...
It's great - but not going to last very long without medium wanting some kickback for using their name in this way.
@duncanjcarter This was a common concern, so we've rebranded as Meteor.link ☄️
This got me excited, but what I'm wondering is - how does it work? Once someone clicks the link, they go to a slightly modified page which has the retargeting pixel in the source code on the said page? So it's not technically the same URL as your website? Just wondering how you're pulling this off technically.
@avtarramsingh I had the same question. Here is the content of the page: https://gist.github.com/Theminij...
@casinellig Seems like you trigger the redirect with javascript, which can produce problems with people that disabled Javascript in the browser (yes, they exist) or have window.location preventing addons/extensions.
@avtarramsingh @theminijohn You're right. From latest stats there's only about 0.2% of visitors who browse without javascript enabled (worldwide, if you focus say on the US it's even lower). For those who have it disabled we have a fallback that show them a clickable link that will get them to their destination.
@avtarramsingh @casinellig Sounds good. Question: Why don't you programmatically redirect them after 500 ms, instead of using js?
@avtarramsingh @theminijohn You mean with a meta header? Will look into pros/cons, might be a good idea!
@casinellig - Anytime. Love the stuff I learn from product hunt. I'm not a tech guy so this really helps. Your product is cutout, it seems, for people like me. We need all the help :)
It's such a good idea to retarget anyone who clicks on my links, not only those who visit my website. I'm happy to have this!
This is an amazing product! Great work guys. I will see how I can leverage this in our ecosystem soon!
Hey @casinellig, I see you could retarget any link. Are you guys planning to expand beyond Medium?
@rohit_mulani Hey Rohit, that's right, using Medium.link you could literally retarget any link, not just Medium. The reason we decided to focus on Medium is that we thought if we could solve the problem of Medium audience then we could solve many others'.
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