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# Maker Inbox - project brief

### Headline suggestions
"Spend your time creating, automate the marketing"
"Web presence channel for makers"

### Niche / Target Audience
Makers who create projects (coding, art, music, etc), most of the time, by themselves. Who need to market their projects and have social media presence, but need some assistance (don't have enough time, are too introverted, etc).

### Description and features
Maker Inbox is a tool made for the Makers. It's an aggregator that allows to schedule posts on social platforms targeted at makers of various kind (wip.chat, getmakerlog.com, twitter, product hunt makers, indiehackers, hacker news, ...).

* Creates and schedules a post to be posted on selected platforms
* When you make a post on a connected platform, it's fetched into Maker Inbox
* Unifies comments, reactions from those various platforms in a single feed
* Writing a post has optional useful features: attachments, links, URL shortening, grammar fixes, suggested hashtags and emojis
* Analytics of the posts (length, regularity of posting, etc) analytics of reactions; the tool makes suggestions
* Graph of timeline with posts grouped by projects, so you can identify that some projects are inactive
* Offers integrations to suggest you some posts automatically (github hook, automatic alerts every 100th events, etc)
* Set alerts on mentions in other people's posts on connected platform (username, project name, etc)

### Competitors / Inspirations

* Buffer, mention.net, Hootsuite, [Recurpost](https://recurpost.com/recurpost-as-free-hootsuite-alternative) -> (multi-account aggregation, automation, notifications)
* wip.chat, getmakerlog.com producthunt.com/makers, indiehackers, hacker news -> social platforms made for makers
* unito.io -> tool to help setup syncing, multiaccount aggregation
* zapier -> creating custom automations