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@_jacksmith Yo just solved this, mind checking it out to see if it works on your end? Really appreciate the feedback!
@juhaszhenderson @_jacksmith thanks for checking us out Jack. Been a minute (years) since we spoke. hope all is well!
@juhaszhenderson @andrewmedal great to see you involved Andrew. @Matt: yes, seems fixed now
fyi seeing some broken profile images though: https://nimb.ws/bgY8Df 
@bluetidepro Hey Zach thanks for commenting! We built the UI, aggregate the sources, enrich & host the data, provide support etc. Why would we not charge for our work?
We do have a free tier where you can get a newsletter of our active requests and search through them. That might be the best place for you to start!
@juhaszhenderson I understand charging if I wanted to do the search stuff, I was more so confused why I'd be charged to just go on and provide people info through the requests. Like as a fun thing to do on the side to help people out looking for info. I'm going to guess that's not a use case that's normal? haha I may have missed the point of the service.
@bluetidepro Ah I see what you're saying. What's in it for you––journalists submit their PR requests, and you give them a quote. Usually not that many people provide quality quotes––and if yours is quality & relevant, you've got a good shot at the journalist using your quote in their article. That's some pretty low friction PR, and is great if you're trying to get buzz as an expert, or for your business/product/book/etc
@bluetidepro I was confused as well. If *sources* are providing services to *journalists*, logically, journalists would be the ones paying.
I can see what Matt is saying regarding the source paying, but it seems like the goal of that business model is to help people promote themselves -- whereas the opposite business model would be more about helping journalists find quality sources. (Kind of like the talent placement / staffing business model, where the party seeking the source pays.)
I suppose they're both viable.
Great idea as a potential HARO replacement. Willing to sign-up for a paid plan when you improve the curating of the requests. Right now it looks like a Craig's List message board filed with random personal posts and spam that are not related to media/PR source requests.
@juhaszhenderson Hey Matt, I'm looking for source requests from journalists, similar to HARO, but in a more streamlined manner. That is the impression I got from your service offering, but as mentioned, when I created a trial account to run a few queries, most of the requests were not from journalists. The requests were mostly random personal posts similar to what you'd find in a Craig's List message board. Once you clean this up, I'm happy to become a paid subscriber.
@kensavage Thanks for commenting Ken!
Yes, except a few big differences:
1. HARO’s requests are anonymized––they don’t give you the journalist’s direct contact info.
2. They only update requests 3x a day, while we update hourly.
3. They don’t aggregate requests, so they have much less with less breadth.
4. HARO charges you to search through requests, while we offer it for free (we only charge for access to contact info).
5. HARO is traditionally for coverage in only articles & blog posts, while we’ve optimized for every medium from articles to TV to podcasts.
Happy 2020 PH! 🎊
When journalists need an expert source for a new article they post requests like “I’m looking for a tech founder who's moving to Asia and not raising VC for a new piece about digital nomads”
They post these requests in dozens of places online like HARO, group chats, Twitter, Facebook Groups, Reddit, etc
If you want to get press coverage, responding to these requests is your best bet––BUT monitoring thousands of these requests is basically impossible, especially because they’re often anonymous
To solve this, we source them all for you every hour, match them to our journalist database to de-anonymize them, then make them all searchable
While this PR strategy used to take hours of work every week, with PR Requests you can maximize your coverage with less than 5 mins of work every day
Unlike competitive products like HARO, we offer both a daily newsletter of requests + a search engine for FREE
If you want to respond to a request directly, you can get full access to the service for $69/mo! If you use our discount code PRODUCTHUNT you can get 40% off forever 👍
I’m around all day here & on live chat if you have any questions or need any help!
– Matt, Aaron, & Andrew from Press Hunt
I've been looking for the next HARO for a while and no far not very impressed. It mostly feels like a better twitter feed, which is nice, but hardly worth a subscription price.. I'll keep an open mind and try it for the month.
@isaac_hammelburger Thanks Isaac hope you enjoy it! Much better than HARO in our opinion (they haven't even updated the © on their footer since 2015 😂)
@isaac_hammelburger @juhaszhenderson Don't hate on HARO on the © since you are being told above you don't have privacy policy nor terms and conditions. It is a big deal.
@deekor our website is responsive. Our app is designed as a web app, so it will be much easier to use on a laptop or tablet. Thanks for the feedback!
Congrats on the ship! HARO hasn't been updated in ageeeees and hunting down these PR request does get fairly time-consuming. I think this is a really good idea to capture, categorize and collect these. Is it possible to get notifications for specific journalists and/or topics?
I can't see your privacy policy, terms and conditions, list of third parties who have access to our data (this includes things like Crisp or FOMO) nor a "delete account" button, and you're accepting payments on the website. This looks like a clear violation of GDPR.
Currently the latest PR Request is "lοοking fοr gаy, bi аnd quееr mеn fοr аn аrticlе аbοut hοοk-ups." – if you want people to trust your platform enough to respond to sensitive PR Requests like these, you might want to take your users' privacy seriously and provide a big privacy policy, terms, clarify how you keep their data safe, and provide a way for them to delete their account.
[EDIT : After a long thread of messages, they now have these.]
– Moral of the story, *you have a right to privacy* folks, always challenge companies and demand it!
@johnozbay Hey John thanks for commenting! You're right user privacy is really important here. I'm going to get started on a privacy policy and publish that asap. Also in the case of sensitive user messages, we don't actually store any user data––we simply display contact info (email, phone, social), then you send messages through those clients. Additionally, there are unsubscribe links in every email 👍
Thanks again John!
@juhaszhenderson In order to give a journalist's (Alice) contact info to a source (Bob), you need to check whether if the source (Bob) is a paid PR Requests member. This is your business model correct?
Which means, Alice the journalist posted an inquiry like:
"lοοking fοr gаy, bi аnd quееr mеn fοr аn аrticlе аbοut hοοk-ups."
(a real example from your product)
Then Bob, the source, clicks contact after seeing this specific inquiry.
So now you know which source clicked on which inquiry by which journalist.
So you know Bob -> Clicked on : "lοοking fοr gаy, bi аnd quееr mеn fοr аn аrticlе аbοut hοοk-ups." -> to respond to Alice's inquiry.
Meaning that, you know (and can know) journalist's sources. In this context, you can also infer / know that Bob, the source, fits into the category of "gay/bi/queer men".
So here's what you know about Bob, the source, just based on this example :
First & Last Name (from the payment information)
Zip Code (from the payment information)
Email (from the signup)
Bob's gender identity (based on the inquiry),
Bob's sexual preferences (also based on the inquiry)
These are very sensitive pieces of information, especially when combined together. So whether if you store this or not, you have the capability to learn so much about the sources from the context alone.
Therefore, you need to have a proper privacy policy, and show your users how much you can learn about their personal lives simply by observing the articles they click on. (Or how much of their personal information would be leaked if your company gets hacked)
–– Finally, you need terms and conditions. During signup, I didn't agree to anything like "I won't be scraping all journalists' posts & contact information from your website" – So a single paying user can scrape all your journalist's posts and contact information, use it, sell it, release for free, and you wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on without proper terms.
@johnozbay Come on dude. The guy is doing a startup. Don't be such a stickler for rules. He will sort shit out when he gets the time. Until then, it is a great product.
Matt – a tip is to copy the GDPR terms and conditions doc from another website and adapt it to your startup.
@gavri_birnbaum Those “rules” are written in law in EU under GDPR, and CCPA in US. + All tax paying businesses have to have company information on the website if they accept payments online. Otherwise people could get scammed, companies could avoid tax etc. Being a startup doesn’t exempt anyone from obeying laws, and disrespecting others’ legal rights.
@johnozbay written by a bunch of octogenarian bureaucrats in Belgium. Generating huge legal fees for startups just getting started. Doing next to nothing to really protect user data. This product creates value. There is nothing the EU, GDPR or anyone can do about that. Value first. Stupid legal compliance later.
@parag_r Thanks Raj! Next on the list is categorization for search filters, but at least for now you can search for keywords!
I know of several immigrant startup founders who would love a service like this to help with the evidence they need to for visa purposes ;) In terms of your landing page I feel like it gets the point across and it has most of the elements like social validation but it is rather text heavy. I've illustrated where exactly with a screenshot: https://app.usebubbles.com/a3712...
I would start tracking conversion on your main CTA then start cutting out text and certain elements and track the effect on your conversion rate. In most cases it'll probably stay the same or go up while having a cleaner and more easily digestible landing page.
@tom4 yes, great use case. Awesome Tom. Thanks for the notes and feedback. I'll share with the team. We really appreciate this insight!
@marksnowdon1 Thanks for commenting Mark! Yes, you can sign up for free at https://presshunt.co/signup
@marksnowdon1 @juhaszhenderson thanks Mark, let us know if you have any other questions. And, we love feedback.
This is a great feature. I’ve been using Press Hunt for the past year and have generated a ton of PR. This new feature is amazing. I used to use Haro before Press Hunt so very familiar with how this can benefit. Thanks!
@danielle_biondo Thanks for the review Danielle! Glad Press Hunt's been useful 👍
We've got a bunch more coming in the next month!
Hi @christenvidanovic
Thanks for the question.
We're different from HARO in a couple key points:
1. HARO’s requests are anonymized––they don’t give you the journalist’s direct contact info, even after you pay.
2. They only update requests 3x a day, while we update hourly.
3. They don’t aggregate requests from all over the web through different sources, so they have much less with less breadth.
4. HARO charges you to search through requests, while we offer it for free (we only charge for access to contact info).
5. HARO is traditionally for coverage in only articles & blog posts, while we’ve optimized for every medium from articles to TV to podcasts.
Thanks!
quite interesting for a new product. As a reporter these kind of products will make my work easy..
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