Snapdex: Find People's Snapchat Usernames

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Snapchat really need to do something clever around discovery. Until then its useful to have these kinds of sites to help find awesome accounts to follow And yes, I think @stringstory is one account to follow!

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9yr ago

Adam Marx

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@bentossell @stringstory I agree here. One thing that I find a pain point on Snapchat is serendipitous discovery of new people to follow. I'm not sure it needs to be constructed like the discovery functions on other social sites like Twitter or FB, but it's something I wish was there. Also, I like the wikipedia feel. Has more of a collective-consciousness dynamic to it.

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9yr ago

Antoine ROUSSEAUX

@bentossell @stringstory I Really agree, as a french guy starting a world tour, it's even harder now. You need to already have a community on #snapchat, you can't really creates one. By the way my #snap is antoine-rsx

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9yr ago

Laurent Van Winckel

Snapdex

Maker

@antoinersx Glad we can help people get some exposure on Snapchat. I saw you've added your account on Snapdex. Thanks! I have a long list of pending (and incomplete) items, so it's going to take a while to get them approved, but I'm working on it!

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9yr ago

Justin Wu

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@antoinersx @bentossell @stringstory Not exactly true! I started Snapchat about 5 months ago, you just have to put in the work on the platform itself, engage with users and other big snapchatters for collaboration. It is possible. A lot of growth will come from outside of the platform too so think multi-channel via Instagram, articles and etc.

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9yr ago

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Anchor

@laurentvw what is your criteria for approving profiles? Any rhyme or reason? Btw, totally love the site! Great job!

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9yr ago

Laurent Van Winckel

Snapdex

Maker

Hi, I'm Laurent, creator of Snapdex, together with @prameya. Thanks for hunting the site, @stringstory! Snapchat is full of interesting people who produce unique content exclusively to Snapchat (Justin Kan, Mark Suster to name a few). I wanted to find more people like them, but there's nothing really good out there to help you discover new Snapchat accounts, so I made Snapdex! I'm aware there are a couple other sites out there, but I wanted to make something that's 10x better than the competition. The site is fully user-editable, just like on Wikipedia, and includes categories and location for filtering, and snaps and reviews to learn more about a certain Snapchat account. I launched the site a few months ago. Right now I'm focusing on growth. Would be great if we can make this the de-facto platform to discover new interesting Snapchat users. So feel free to add more Snapchatters to the index! And if you have any questions, or feedback on whatsoever (how to improve the site, foster growth), let me know! I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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9yr ago

Derick Hildebrandt

@laurentvw @prameya @stringstory Two ideas that I had off the top of my head: 1) It would be nice to see more categories that accounts fit into. For example, I looked for a "tech" category right away. 2) This is more of a question than a suggestion, for the category selection on the explore page, why did you decide to go with a drop down menu versus a facet selection?

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9yr ago

Laurent Van Winckel

Snapdex

Maker

@derickhilde 1) You're right, there's no tech category yet, but we do have Entrepreneurship, Startups, Marketing and some others. I personally don't like the idea of tags, because it lacks context, and it's definitely something that we need to fix. A better way of doing this is to e.g. have an "occupation" element with values such as "Actor", "Tech Entrepreneur", "Web Developer", "Journalist", etc. Then have other elements in the same manner, e.g. "interested in", "industry sector", etc. It's in the pipelines, but it's going to take a little while to develop. 2) The dropdown was slightly easier and faster to code. That's really it. I still consider the site to be an MVP. There's a lot that we can improve on, but it takes time. That being said, I've added the necessary todos in our task list! Thanks for the feedback Derick! :)

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9yr ago

Adrian Grant

Email Wars

@laurentvw @prameya @stringstory is there a API on the way?

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9yr ago

Laurent Van Winckel

Snapdex

Maker

@adriangrant We currently have an API, but it's for internal use only. What would you like to use it for? It didn't occur to me yet that there would be a need for this.

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9yr ago

Suzanne Nguyen

True Stories

Hunter

@laurentvw @prameya atm the url are based on the person's full name (ie. snapdex.com/suzannenguyen) being that it's snapchat and you're encouraging people to review/add details. how about changing the url to the username. (ie snapdex.com/stringstory). It'd be easier to search and discover, and if you have regular contributors, they can add it to the snaphandle

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9yr ago

Matthieu de Luze

Wonderful 👍 I was looking for services like that to discover snapcodes. I agree 100% with @bentossell, Snapchat needs to work on discovery it's a huge pain point. Well done to Snapdex 👏 Hope to see them add other features & maybe Instagram accounts for story makers 🙀

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9yr ago

Laurent Van Winckel

Snapdex

Maker

@matthieudeluze Thanks for the kind words. What other features were you thinking of? As for Instagram, we do link to an item's Instagram account if there's any. Perhaps we can integrate them on the site as well, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea since the site is very focused on Snapchat (especially the domain name). Building an Instagram clone of Snapdex is possible though, I'll think about it!

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9yr ago

Matthieu de Luze

@laurentvw You're right, not a great idea to add Instagram stories with that domain name but creating one for IG could be cool too 😹 I will test it deeper to eventually suggest features but it already looks great 👍

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9yr ago

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