Just launched CryptoSocialRank, a crypto community growth tracker

[cryptoteams]

Hi All,

I just launched this little fun side-project. I was a bit done at staring at prices and getting depressed of missing out on all those DeFi gems 

With the app you can look at procentual growth of 500+ crypto communities (and counting). You can also view absolute or total growth numbers and sort. In the future you will be able to select different time periods (daily/weekly/monthly) and select which social channels you want to display. And a bunch of other stuff I have in the pipeline, like adding more channels (medium, facebook, youtube, github, etc.).

Each week I will create a report with all the winners and losers of that week and some extra numbers.

Please have a look and let me know what you think.

https://cryptosocialrank.com/

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About CryptoSocialRank

Looking for that crucial metric which can give you the edge in the crypto space? We are tracking data which, when added to your usual signals, might be the secret sauce you need.

Leaving aside all the hype, all the price movements and the 'pump and dumps', one of the most important, and overlooked, factors in the success of a project is community growth and engagement.

That's why we created CryptoSocialRank, a crypto community growth tracker.

We track hundreds of projects (and growing) on a daily basis. We automatically monitor all their social media platforms (including Twitter, Reddit, Telegram, Facebook, Discord, and YouTube, plus any others they may have), and present you their numbers in beautiful and easy-to understand graphs.

This way you can easily DYOR on multiple projects at once, and make your own judgement if a community is growing in a healthy way.

You can filter and sort the result as percentages, numbers, or as the total size of their communities in order to give you an idea of who really are the movers and shakers in the space.

In addition you can sign up for our free weekly report/digest where we present you the results from the past week.

In the future we will be adding new crypto projects to the list, social metrics and markets, filters, zooming, sorting, API's, and other ways to help you make sense of the crypto space.

Projects will always tell you that they are healthy and growing - now you can check for yourself!

[cryptoteams]

Thanks! That was kind of the initial reason. I am looking at the space for a long time and out of nowhere all these DeFi projects made headlines. Since the tool looks at percentage growth, a lot of small projects will become visible. Compared to all the price/market cap. sorted websites.

The cool thing about it is that you can see when bots are used and/or followers are being bought. A bit hard to call people/projects out on this, since it is hard to prove. It also doesn't mean the team is behind this, but at least it becomes visible something fishy is going on

[LeGaulois]

How are you monitoring the stats behind the scene? (if it's not a secret sauce)

If I may suggest. Above or below "last updated" it could be useful for visitors to know since when the site is monitoring the project.
For example, if I take a look at Celsius Network I may think they had zero followers on October 11 and 101k on October 12, which would lead me to think that this is abnormal performance.

However, the real reason is that (I guess) you added the project  on Oct 12

[robelneo]

Congratulations on launching this kind of project, this is very interesting targeted niche or market this kind of project do have a market especially now that the Decentralized Finance and Decentralized market is making a lot of noise, this project will serve as a big help to who are involve on this kind of market and looking for tools for comparison.

How are you monitoring the stats behind the scene? (if it's not a secret sauce)

I also want to know if the stat are on real time and will show the exact and right data.

[Upgrade00]

This is a very 'out of the box' idea, a lot of investors gets influenced by social media hype, so having a tool which effectively tracks engagements on social platforms would be very useful. I also think it would be beneficial to track the buzz a project generates on different platforms, this would include discussions about that project using specific key words peculiar to it.

While browsing through, there seems to be a bug in the search feature, I'm currently using mobile and when I enter a keyword, the related project flashes below the search bar and dissapears, clicking on next on the keyboard or on the search icon does not do anything.

However, the real reason is that (I guess) you added the project  on Oct 12

Isn't this information visible by looking at the origin of the graph on the chart, since it starts from the day the website was first tracked and not from zero? It could however still be useful for reference.

[cryptoteams]

Thanks and good to hear you find it useful!

How are you monitoring the stats behind the scene? (if it's not a secret sauce)

If I may suggest. Above or below "last updated" it could be useful for visitors to know since when the site is monitoring the project.
For example, if I take a look at Celsius Network I may think they had zero followers on October 11 and 101k on October 12, which would lead me to think that this is abnormal performance.

However, the real reason is that (I guess) you added the project  on Oct 12

It is pretty easy: scrape website > extract social links > get followers counts with API or through scraping.

Once I got, for example a reddit link, I will start extracting the data. This happens a couple of times a day. The problem, and what you saw with Celsius Network, is that sometimes a link doesn't work. There is something wrong with it (some redirects, timeout, or just broken or wrong). Currently, if this happens I log this error and add the previous counted value or zero. I added the previous counted value in case I get some weird timeout. If I don't do this and add zero or null, there will be a huge drop in the graph data and will mess up the percentage calculation.

When I am getting an error, I will try to fix it myself and replace the link manually. This can take some time and this was probably the case with Celsius. Once it start 'picking up' data again, you will see a huge spike and this also messes with the percentage calculation. I think this could be improved and it would be better to not add anything, just null value until I found out why it is not recording data.

Sometimes there are other things, I get timeouts or hit limits on the API's. Been tweaking this for a while now, and should almost run smoothly now.

With people buying followers, you see a pattern. They don't buy all their followers at once. I saw some clear 'stepped' increases and you see it is very unnatural.

I am still improving and beta testing. In the final version I should have ironed out all these inconsistencies! Soon I will add some other metrics (youtube, facebook and medium) and some new features.

Thanks for the feedback! I will look for a way to make it more visible when the project was added. I understand it can be confusing right now.

[cryptoteams]

This is a very 'out of the box' idea, a lot of investors gets influenced by social media hype, so having a tool which effectively tracks engagements on social platforms would be very useful. I also think it would be beneficial to track the buzz a project generates on different platforms, this would include discussions about that project using specific key words peculiar to it.

While browsing through, there seems to be a bug in the search feature, I'm currently using mobile and when I enter a keyword, the related project flashes below the search bar and dissapears, clicking on next on the keyboard or on the search icon does not do anything.

Thanks a lot for the find! I will improve the search and fix it asap.

It would be very cool to be able to track buzz and sentiment. Cool idea. Not sure how to do this, but will start thinking about ways to expand and improve the platform. It would be cool if teams and people could use it as a dashboard with some colors indicating the health of the project, community-wise. Awesome

[SFR10]

The cool thing about it is that you can see when bots are used and/or followers are being bought. A bit hard to call people/projects out on this, since it is hard to prove. It also doesn't mean the team is behind this, but at least it becomes visible something fishy is going on

For the most part, you're right but could you also scrape the announcement/event section ^{[if there are any]} from each respective platform and list it together with their dates?
^{- It'll help with getting a better picture in terms of seeing if certain events led to sudden spikes.}
I believe there's a bug in the way it sorts the ascending/descending results ^{[it does the opposite thing]}.

[cryptoteams]

The cool thing about it is that you can see when bots are used and/or followers are being bought. A bit hard to call people/projects out on this, since it is hard to prove. It also doesn't mean the team is behind this, but at least it becomes visible something fishy is going on

For the most part, you're right but could you also scrape the announcement/event section ^{[if there are any]} from each respective platform and list it together with their dates?
^{- It'll help with getting a better picture in terms of seeing if certain events led to sudden spikes.}
I believe there's a bug in the way it sorts the ascending/descending results ^{[it does the opposite thing]}.

That's a good idea. I made a news aggregator for crypto a while ago and maybe I can dust it off and re-use some parts of it. Maybe an event calendar integration would make more sense...will have to think about it. Maybe I can work together with some other platforms out there.

I am always a bit confused about ASC/DESC. According to me, Ascending is small to large, where negative number/percentages are the smallest. 

[SFR10]

Maybe an event calendar integration would make more sense...

Indeed, that's even better.

I am always a bit confused about ASC/DESC. According to me, Ascending is small to large, where negative number/percentages are the smallest. 

The first part of your statement is correct but the latter part is wrong...

• Anything that is rising/increasing/improving belongs to ascending and anything on a decline ^{[negative numbers]}, belongs to descending.
  _{- Negative numbers are indeed the smallest on the list but they keep getting smaller as well.}

[cryptoteams]

Thanks for the feedback! I am still a bit confused I managed to fix it by changing the text to 'Lowest first' & 'Highest first', so it is more clear. Not super happy with it yet, but will do for now.