You are right, but with our Amazing plan you can have 2 way communication with your Twitter followers for just $10/month and upto X = 12 Twitter accounts with in-depth click tracking and lots lots more :)
We will consider that although I'm not sure the economics would work out.
Our API will go live soon(possibly as early as next week). It will be Free and you will be able to access all the data under your own account or any account that gives you permission to do so.
I'm happy to share. I'll do a blog post on this down the line, but here's the outline....
Node.JS at the core. Redis and AWS SimpleDB for the Database. Major caching at all levels (frontend/backend). Response times of less than 50ms for most calls. Web Sockets(SocketIO) for real time communications.
The frontend is built entirely in AngularJS with a few jQuery integrations. We write all our CSS in LESS and compile it using Grunt.
We used PHP (LAMP) for our last major Project and I can say that for what we are trying to achieve, NodeJS is much much much faster(10x) and leaner(we manage the same traffic with 20% of the server resources used on our last project with PHP)
Hi ljsocal, unfortunately we require every single permission we ask for in order to provide all the functionality we currently do. If its a specific permission you have issue with, I'm more than happy to elaborate on exactly why Stacker needs it.
You can rest assured that we encrypt all sensitive information before storing it in our databases.The security and privacy of our customers is our number One priority.
The Only non essential field we ask for is your Date of Birth, and we only do that so that we can wish you on your special day.
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback, will be sure to forward this to our design team. For the moment please accept a link to our Press Packet that includes screenshots of the app https://s3.amazonaws.com/stacker_assets/press.zip
Stacker has a very well featured Free-for-Life plan (everything that Circular offers and more)!
We love Circular, but it only posts to Twitter. Stacker posts to Facebook (Profiles/Pages/Groups), Twitter, LinkedIn (Profiles/Pages/Groups) and we are in the process of adding in many more networks.
With Stacker you also get a Universal Inbox that displays and lets you Like/Favorite/Reply-to incoming messages from across all your Social Media accounts in one place.
You are absolutely right, the Inbox is Stacker's most used feature. We find users coming back multiple times a day to respond to incoming requests from their fans and followers.
We would be super happy if Google+ opened up their API. Its a great network, just needs to become more open!
I like the idea of a CSV export. It shouldn't be too difficult to do since we have all the data with us. Our PDF reports are very detailed though.
Will be sure to pass this on to our Dev team. Thanks!
Yes absolutely! With Stacker you can post to..
* just your Personal Profile or
* just your Business page or
* to both your Personal and Business page(s) at the same time :)
Stacker is also the first Social Publishing tool that lets you create Photo Albums on the fly, which should be very helpful for pro photographers like yourself.
Yes, you can turn off link-shortening if you like.
If you do choose that option, the only thing you wont see is the Click tracking under Reports.
Stacker also supports using your own Custom domain to shorten links. Drop me a note at [email protected] once you've signed up for an account and I'll be happy to help you set it up.
Right now, we are on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (many more in the pipeline). We want to be on all the networks as soon as possible and even go beyond just social networks (think Tumblr, Disqus and others)
You are absolutely right, our focus right now is building up the user base. We want to be as competitive as possible at this stage.