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Your competitors' week, on one page.

Rivalwire reads their sites, pricing pages, videos and Hacker News every day. Once a week you get what changed, what is new, and what did unusually well for them.

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  • Public sources only
  • No browser extension
  • No access to your accounts
This week's findingsSample data

Harborline · pricing page

Starter went from $10 to $12 a seat.

Leads the briefing Mentions a price

Seen 10 Nov · 2 lines added, 1 removed

harborline.example/pricingcompared with 9 Nov
  Starter − $10 per seat / month + $12 per seat / month + Billed annually   Up to 10 seats
PRICING Starter plan went from $10 to $12 a seat HOMEPAGE Headline now says "for agencies" SHIPPED Offline mode for the desktop app HIRING First enterprise sales role posted VIDEO 9.2× their usual views in three days INTEGRATIONS 4 new integration pages PACE 7 articles this week, usually 2

What it catches

Not everything they did. The part that matters.

Most tools forward every post and every edit. Rivalwire decides what made the page, and tells you why.

01 / 04

Unusual by their standards, not by a fixed number.

A million views is an ordinary Tuesday for some companies and a miracle for others. Every video and story is compared with what that competitor usually gets.

Big channel

1.1M views

Their usual: 1M

Not news

Small channel

9,000 views

Their usual: 975

9.2× usual · reported

02 / 04

Pricing changes, line by line.

When a pricing page or homepage changes you get the exact lines added and removed. Anything that mentions a price is flagged and goes to the top.

Pricing page changedMentions a price
− $10 per seat / month + $12 per seat / month + Billed annually − Free for teams under 5

03 / 04

Everything they published, sorted by what it is.

New pages are found the day they appear and grouped by the part of the site they sit in. A new integration and a new job post tell you different things.

Product updatesArticlesIntegrationsCustomer storiesHiringDocs
Offline mode for the desktop appPublished 6 Nov
Comment threads in shared docsPublished 4 Nov
Faster search on large workspacesFirst seen 3 Nov

04 / 04

It says when it couldn't look.

If a site blocks readers or a source fails, the briefing names it. Every date says where it came from. Silence should mean nothing happened, not that nobody checked.

Could not be readNorthmoor's pricing page answered 403 on 9 Nov.
Published 6 NovThe date comes from the page, its feed or its address.
First seen 9 NovNo date on the page, so this is the day it was found.

The briefing

No dashboard to open. It comes to you.

One email a week. Two minutes to read.

Pricing leads.A price change is the first thing you see, with the lines that changed.
Then the outliers.Whatever beat that company's usual by the widest margin.

RivalwireCompetitor digest · 3–10 November

Sample

Harborline harborline.example

Pricing page changed Mentions a price

Seen 10 Nov · 2 lines added, 1 removed

+ $12 per seat / month− $10 per seat / month

Quillpad quillpad.example

We rebuilt the editor from scratch

9.2× this company's usual 975 views

Video · 8 Nov · 9,000 views, counted 10 Nov

Product updates

  • Offline mode for the desktop app
    Published 6 Nov
  • Comment threads in shared docs
    Published 4 Nov

Stackwell stackwell.example

Hiring

  • Enterprise account executive, London
    First seen 9 Nov

Nothing new at: Northmoor.

Then everything new.Grouped by what it is, newest first, each with its date.
And who was quiet.So you know they were checked.

  1. Add their domains.

    Each site is read once to learn what is already there, including its pricing page and the accounts it links to.

    add harborline.example quillpad.example

  2. It reads every morning.

    New pages, changed text, new videos and stories, each compared with the last reading and with that competitor's own history.

  3. One briefing a week.

    Pricing first, then the outliers, then everything new. Nothing to log into and nothing to remember.

Sources

Only what they publish for everyone.

Competitor research has a habit of collecting data in ways you would rather not be part of. Rivalwire reads the open web, politely, and nothing else.

What it reads

  • Their public pagesFollowing each site's robots.txt, at most one request a second, under a name that says who is reading.
  • Sitemaps and feedsThe lists sites publish so readers can find what is new.
  • YouTube channel feedsThe channel's own public feed of recent videos, with view and like counts.
  • Hacker NewsStories that link to their site, through the public search.

What it never does

  • Use your loginsIt never asks for, reads or borrows your sessions on any social network.
  • Run inside your browserThere is no extension, so nothing on your machine collects data for other people's reports.
  • Go behind a login or a paywallIf a page is not public, it is not read.
  • Guess whose account is whoseAccounts come only from links on the competitor's own site.

Questions

Fair things to ask.

How is this different from a change-alert tool?

Alert tools tell you a page changed. Rivalwire reads the change, shows the lines, sorts new pages by what they are, and ranks videos and stories against that competitor's own history. Then it sends one briefing instead of forty emails.

What counts as "unusual"?

A video is reported when it has at least twice the views that company's other recent videos typically get. A Hacker News story is reported at three times their usual points, and never below thirty. With too little history to know what is usual, nothing is claimed.

Why is my first briefing short?

The first reading of a site records what is already there. Calling all of it new would be wrong, so the first briefing only includes things that carry their own recent date. From the second reading on, anything that was not there before is reported.

Does it need access to any of my accounts?

No. You give it your competitors' domains and an email address for the briefing. It never signs in anywhere as you.

What can't it see?

Pages drawn entirely by JavaScript have no text to compare, and the briefing says so when it meets one. Hacker News stories are found by links to the site, so a thread that only mentions a company by name is missed. YouTube feeds list the latest fifteen videos.

What will it cost?

Pricing is not set. It will be published here before anyone is charged.

When can I use it?

Early access is not open yet, and this page does not take sign-ups. It will say so here when that changes.

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