Hey Josh, this is a really neat idea! I can definitely see the value in real-time forum and Twitter monitoring, especially for brand reputation management and lead generation.
A few thoughts and questions:
Scalability: With so many forums and the real-time aspect, how do you handle data processing and ensure timely notifications without delays?
Filtering: False positives could be a pain. How robust is the keyword matching, and are there options for filtering by sentiment, forum quality, or specific user profiles?
Integrations: Down the line, integrations with popular marketing/CRM tools would be super valuable (e.g., pushing leads into a CRM). Any plans for this?
I'm curious about the technical side too. Combining various forum APIs and handling the data firehose must be quite the challenge. Did you build any custom scraping/parsing solutions?
c0mbonat0r
isnt the twitter api super expensive? how did you get around that?