A brand new startup is addressing the necessity for an all-in-one toolset constructed for individuals who wish to develop, handle, and observe their Bluesky presence and following. The subscription service BlueSkyHunter, which launched Friday, introduces an internet 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 development and analytics instruments into the arms of Bluesky customers — together with those that might have switched from the bigger social community X the place such instruments have lengthy been out there.
The providing will make it simpler for particular person creators, manufacturers, and small to medium-sized companies to reap the benefits of 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.
“Usually, I’m already too late because big companies already have the market share,” he explains. “That’s one of the [reasons] I went to Bluesky: because it’s still pretty early … so I believe it will be easier for me to enter the market, hopefully.”
Whereas there are different companies that assist to schedule social posts, BlueSkyHunter goals to supply an expanded function set the place scheduling is only one of many choices out there.
At launch, the service additionally presents 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 out there 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 presents quite a lot of metrics and charts in its dashboard, together with these for monitoring whole follower rely, posts per 30 days, engagement charges, development charges, greatest posting instances, prime niches (classes), subject engagement, and extra. These might 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 bit known as Viral Posts will showcase the extra fashionable posts on the social community. This might assist content material planners choose up on developments and memes or discover templates which might be fashionable with different customers that they may undertake.
Over time, Udovic plans to broaden the software to filter these posts by subjects, like enterprise, journey, politics, and extra. (Proper now, political posts are likely to dominate this part, he notes).
BlueSkyHunter might be out there via a subscription, with a 40-day free trial out there. A launch particular reductions the service to $15 per 30 days, although it should usually price $29. The low cost will embrace entry to imminent options, as nicely, 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 mission, however for now, he’s taking a leap of religion.
