A brand new startup is addressing the necessity for an all-in-one toolset constructed for individuals who need to develop, handle, and observe their Bluesky presence and following. The subscription service BlueSkyHunter, which launched Friday, introduces a web-based dashboard that mixes entry to analytics and different instruments to schedule posts and automate DMs (direct messages), alongside different options.
Designed by Slovenia-based Borut Udovic with outsourced growth assist, the brand new service goals to place skilled progress and analytics instruments into the fingers of Bluesky customers — together with those that could have switched from the bigger social community X the place such instruments have lengthy been obtainable.
The providing will make it simpler for particular person creators, manufacturers, and small to medium-sized companies to benefit from Bluesky, the rising social community that now reaches over 31.5 million customers.
Udovic says he was excited to work on a toolset for Bluesky due to the chance the market presents.
“Normally, I’m already too late as a result of large firms have already got the market share,” he explains. “That’s one of many [reasons] I went to Bluesky: as a result of it’s nonetheless fairly early … so I consider will probably be simpler for me to enter the market, hopefully.”
Whereas there are different providers that assist to schedule social posts, BlueSkyHunter goals to supply an expanded function set the place scheduling is only one of many choices obtainable.
At launch, the service additionally provides instruments like a thread composer and one other that may automate sending DMs to your followers — like thanks messages to new followers. An choice to ship follow-up messages will later be obtainable to toggle on, too, for these recipients who didn’t reply to your preliminary DM.
Monitoring your Bluesky efficiency is one other key side of the service, as BlueSkyHunter provides quite a lot of metrics and charts in its dashboard, together with these for monitoring whole follower rely, posts per thirty days, engagement charges, progress charges, greatest posting instances, prime niches (classes), subject engagement, and extra. These may be filtered for the previous day, week, month, three months, or all time.
Instruments for monitoring analytics round your rivals are additionally within the works, with a watch on enterprise use instances.
Past measurement and content material administration instruments, BlueSkyHunter goals to assist customers perceive what’s trending on Bluesky. A piece referred to as Viral Posts will showcase the extra widespread posts on the social community. This might assist content material planners choose up on traits and memes or discover templates which can be widespread with different customers that they may undertake.
Over time, Udovic plans to develop the software to filter these posts by subjects, like enterprise, journey, politics, and extra. (Proper now, political posts are inclined to dominate this part, he notes.)
BlueSkyHunter shall be obtainable by a subscription, with a 14-day free trial obtainable. A launch particular reductions the service to $15 per thirty days, although it is going to usually value $29. The low cost will embody entry to imminent options, as effectively, like viewers evaluation and an AI assistant.
Udovic says that if BlueSkyHunter takes off, he’d love to rent a full-time programmer to work on the venture, however for now, he’s taking a leap of religion.
Correction: This text was up to date after publication to point the trial is 14 days not 40.
