[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":371},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-15544432":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":46,"what":47,"said":67,"maker_in_thread":205,"shape":213,"grid":217,"attempts":333,"same_week":334,"maker_shows":30,"maker_hidden":363,"reader_version":364,"card":365},"15544432","Product Substitutes","what software top companies are replacing","title","Show HN: Product Substitutes – what software top companies are replacing","https:\u002F\u002Fsiftery.com\u002Falternatives?src=hn","siftery.com","ayanb",1508872931,2017,103,50,442,2242,20,"notable","web_saas","b2b software comparison","web_app",[24,25,21,26],"software alternatives","saas substitutes","product switching data","curious",-0.431,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},1,15,0,14,30,{"idea":36,"execution":38,"privacy":40,"docs":42},{"positive":32,"critical":37},2,{"positive":32,"critical":39},7,{"positive":32,"critical":41},4,{"positive":32,"critical":30},[30,44,30,32,32,30,32,44,30,44,44,30,44,32,44,44,30,44,30,30,32,30,32,30,32,30,30,32,32,32,30,44,30,44,32,44,44,32,45,44],3,5,null,{"problem":48,"audience":55,"pricing":46,"motivation":46,"time_to_build":46,"stack":63,"openness":64,"stage":65,"team_size":66},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Finding which B2B software products companies switch to when they replace a tool","maker",[52],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},"15544444","Search for the top alternatives for over 40k B2B software products. We’re doing a couple of things here that this community might find interesting: A) Actually tracking when…",{"value":56,"source":57,"evidence":58},"Buyers evaluating B2B software and companies choosing replacements","inferred",[59,60],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"15547122","Source of data: 0) We analyze products that have a public footprint. 1) We analyze products that don't have a public footprint. 2) For 0), we crawl the internet periodically and…",[],"unknown","launched","company",{"praise":68,"objections":81,"requests":136,"questions":163,"alternatives":176},[69],{"value":70,"source":71,"evidence":72},"Interesting concept and useful for finding B2B alternatives","commenter",[73,77],{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"15547870","mariaesther111","This is so cool, thanks guys :)!",{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"15545414","zitterbewegung","I tried https:\u002F\u002Fsiftery.com\u002Faws-lambda\u002Falternatives and it pulled up the serverless framework . Why does it say that the serverless framework is something that runs on top of AWS…",[82,97,107,118,129],{"value":83,"source":71,"evidence":84},"Alternatives lists include irrelevant products such as Bootstrap for Vue.js",[85,89,93],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"15545424","holtalanm","did a search on React.js, got some results that I expected, and some that I did not. did a search on Vue.js, and the top 'alternative' is Bootstrap...... Yeah. Bootstrap isn't an…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"15545793","leeoniya","yeah.... https:\u002F\u002Fsiftery.com\u002Fjquery\u002Falternatives",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"15547478","cyberferret","That was one of the first thing I noticed about this too - the 'alternative' pool is just too broad and in some cases nonsensical. For example - I searched for replacements for…",{"value":98,"source":71,"evidence":99},"Spam-like mass tweeting @-mentioning companies and individuals",[100,104],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"15549380","troydavis","Siftery has repeatedly engaged in Twitter spam. Here’s one example account, @SifteryHello that exists solely to mention other companies and individuals:…",{"id":105,"by":102,"text":106},"15551308","I'd even generalize it to \"Doing anything you can to get attention, even when the overall impact is obviously negative.\" A ToS is the absolute minimum (well, other than the penal…",{"value":108,"source":71,"evidence":109},"Unsolicited emails to OSS maintainers without opt-in",[110,114],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"15547595","mholt","Siftery kind of annoyingly added my OSS project to it and started emailing me about it without me signing up for it... (months ago)",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"15547725","dawnerd","How about not emailing like that from the start without an opt-in?",{"value":119,"source":71,"evidence":120},"Data accuracy and source of switching data unclear",[121,125],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"15547035","ma2rten","I am wondering: How exactly are you getting this data? How do you make sure the data is accurate?",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"15547459","thisisit","One of my pet peeves on the new products launched on HN has been a missing \"About\" page. If people are asking for personally identifiable information like emails etc, they should…",{"value":130,"source":71,"evidence":131},"Missing explanation of NPS and unclear About page",[132,133],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},{"id":134,"by":127,"text":135},"15547889","Yes I found the wikipedia page later but it was confusing the first time around. The second data point on customers is intuitive though. I just wish there was a \"what is this?\"…",[137,149,153],{"value":138,"source":50,"evidence":139},"More granular categories for developer tools",[140,143,146],{"id":141,"by":11,"text":142},"15547013","Agree, need more granularity than just \"Javascript MVC framework\". Thank you, we are on it.",{"id":144,"by":11,"text":145},"15545839","Tagged it to Javascript Frameworks and the alternatives are much better now. Agree, we do need to split developer tools more granularly.",{"id":147,"by":11,"text":148},"15547554","In this case, the primary category for Intercom is `User onboarding and Engagement` which can be broken down separately to `User Onboarding` and `In-app Support` or `In-app…",{"value":150,"source":71,"evidence":151},"Explanation of what the NPS score means on the page",[152],{"id":134,"by":127,"text":135},{"value":154,"source":71,"evidence":155},"Clean up miscategorized products such as Word as PDF reader",[156,160],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"15545954","EliRivers","Microsoft Word’s primary category is PDF Readers and Editors I did not expect MS Word to be listed as a PDF Reader (and editor). Does this mean that (according to your data) when…",{"id":161,"by":11,"text":162},"15546997","Apologies, this is data we will clean up soon.",[164,168],{"value":165,"source":71,"evidence":166},"How is the switching data collected and verified?",[167],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"value":169,"source":71,"evidence":170},"Why are some alternatives listed for AWS Lambda and WordPress?",[171,172],{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"15545893","pbhjpbhj",">\"When companies stop using WordPress, its most frequent substitutes are HubSpot Website Platform (32.6% of the time), followed by Drupal (21.9%), and by EPi Ektron CMS (6.9%)\"…",[177,184,191,198],{"value":178,"source":71,"evidence":179},"AlternativeTo",[180],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"15546435","jessriedel","This strikes me as the business version of AlternativeTo.net, a stupendous website to help find alternative (consumer) software. https:\u002F\u002Falternativeto.net\u002F",{"value":185,"source":71,"evidence":186},"Google search 'vs' autocomplete",[187],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"15549491","flipp3r","Websites like this are completely useless once you know where to get real comparisons. Just go to Google and type in \"\u003Cproduct> vs \" and let Google's autocomplete suggest the top…",{"value":192,"source":71,"evidence":193},"Crunchbase competitors",[194],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"15549515","switchstance","I have been going to Crunchbase, looking up a company, and scrolling down to see their \"competitors.\" Though, they're often not listed. 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