Show HN: I've made Keyword Research tool that's 90% cheaper than anything

How important do you think this kind of tool is in the age of massive amounts of LLM generated text everywhere?

While content mills that could crank out any keyword optimized content very cheaply existed for a long time it is now basically free. Whereas producing deep and well researched articles maybe doesn't need that razor sharp focus on specific keywords?

Since you made this tool, you probably think otherwise, but I would like to hear your opinion.

This is super cool and I would love to try it out. We use SEMrush and they are basically charging us +$1000 dollar for the basic plan, with every other feature as an add-on for addition $200 - $400.

Question: Do you have (or plan to provide) features like -

-- Questions around the seed keywords

-- Keyword exports for external analysis with details like volume, difficulty, etc,

-- Can I tag keywords if I save them in a particular list?

In my work, I do SEO research almost every day and have a very extensive keyword strategy. So above features are what's keeping me stick to SEMrush.

What I learned recently was that all the SEO tool basically query the same back end provider.

So I guess it makes sense that there is innovation on the pricing model side of things.

We use ubersuggest which has a lifetime pricing, quite neat.

From your landing:

Keywords Page 450 x $0.05

Keyword Details 150 x $0.04 Your estimated bill

$29

> Semrush. Save up to 71% of your current bill

While using semrush, you pay 4 times more, but it provides DAILY 3k requests. Your tool provides overall(not daily) 3k requests for the bigger price

For OP: Would you say this is a drop-in replacement from ahref's lite plan ?

What would I miss from ahref ?

whoever is wondering about the website home page design, it looks direct copy paste from here: https://tailwindui.com/components/marketing/elements/headers...

On popular mid-sized websites spiders/bots traffic is about 50%. On less popular - up to 90%. Every new SEO tool adds to it. Vercel, Cloudflare et al will happily charge their customers for that parasite load. Web search engines will become worse because of it. Seems like we will be better off blocking it altogether.

Awesome!! Congrats on the value prop and landing!! Very clear.

I run a marketplace in Brazil (kwara.com.br) and we happen to be focusing on SEO at the moment! What's your coverage in Portuguese / Brazilian market keywords? Or is it US only at the moment?

(Ps, I don't mind the tool itself being in english)

I hate SEO, it ruined the Internet

How do these tools source data for alternative keywords, visits per site, visitor breakdowns, etc, competitor rankings, etc

The only thing I can imagine is buying it from chrome plugins. How else would you scrape Google at that rate?

I'm not someone who has ever worked with SEO but I'd like to use this tool for other research purposes. Can you make a guide for someone who's entirely new to SEO but is experienced in the field of web and CS.

The guide could cover jargon and how the tool can be used to get started, it would really offer me a huge reason to start using this. Right now all I know is I need to have SEO incorporated into my website but I have no idea how.

looks really cool, i've often through there should be an alternative like this, especially for just getting started

my first feedback is i'm not totally sure on the difference between "keyword explorer" and "keyword ideas" on the home page

it would be nice to add those names as meta titles too. I have both open in separate tabs, but it's not easy to tell which is which (page title is all "Telescope - Keywords Research Tool")

These are the products that are being used to destroy the internet. It's like selling meth at a school playground to applause. Nice UI execution I guess.

Looks to be just a basic UI to your data provider. What makes you better than all the others doing the same and selling it or open sourcing theirs?

your pricing for kw tracking seems nonsensical to me.

eg i have a site where pages rank for 1,000+ keywords it has many pages like this..

tracking for just this ONE SITE would still cost me hundreds of dollars with your plan.

add more sites, and we are paying thousands of bucks. seems like we should just roll our own serp scrapers + use proxies when pricing is out of hand like this ...

[an ex ahrefs user. ditched it after ~ 4.5 years fwiw]

Do you offer an API? My issue with most keyword tools is that their APIs suck, with tight limits that force you to only request data in bulk, and so on.

Your logo is very similar to https://insomnia.rest/

Hi, congrats on the launch!

Are searches cached locally in my account?

I accidentally reload a page, it seems to run the search again and charge the (free and provided) balance.

Thanks

What is the difference between this and Google Keyword Planner? I am asking this as someone with minimum experience in SEO

It's a much needed tool!

I saw one more project do this with a credit based system, I read in this article: https://saasgodfathers.com/article/seo-tools-without-subscri...

Looks interesting- good luck with the launch! I noticed that some keywords that I tried out in the overview page returned results, but the high level overview stated `search results : 0` - just wanted you to know :-)

This is super nice

Keyword research should absolutely be a pay per use thing instead of a SaaS. So many marketers I know use Ahrefs literally for 2 days for keyword research for a new project and cancel right after. But they still have to pay for the full month.

one thing to be aware of - is SEO is a kind of a losing game. Cheap in terms of organic traffic since organic traffic costs 0.

but then once you rank higher - google will have your competitors bid on your domain / keywords. then again you will pay the google tax on your domain.

if you run a business that generates revenue from millions of low CPC's - e.g aggregation engines that sell clicks - and have millions of pages to spread traffic then SEO might be worth it.

but then adept competitors - pursue mobile apps. hardly any tax there. -- that's why many sites push you to download their app.

source - worked on an internal linking engine for an aggregator and was able to see the impact of SEO

Seems nice but going from a keyword search to my account and back, there was another charge on the credit as if a new search was done. This was I fear the charges will rise up with very minimal use.

The background-color and content is missing when pressing the little question mark next to keyword details on the pricing page.

Also thank you for sharing and congratulations on shipping. Will definitely try this out in the coming days!

Could you enlighten us what is new here?

Your marketing is quite misleading. The value of Ahrefs and SemRush is not in the research but in the representation the clickstream data and backlinks. The data you provide is available also for free in the Keyword Planner Tool, except that it isn’t visualized on fancy shadow-cdn tables. There are dozens of extensions that do all this for free.

Nightwatch.io recently launched a free keyword research and everything else this seem to do, and much more powerful suite for a fraction of the price.

It doesn’t have 3rd party data providers, and the most accurate ranking data, and I would personally not pay for anything that relies on the providers you mentioned (you can fact check how outdated their data is).

I’m affiliated with Nightwatch and the SERP Simulator Chrome Extension.

I don't know that much about SEO. Are you planning on adding a blog section maybe with a few article about how someone might use a tool like this to optimise their own SEO?

Very nice! Awesome landing page!

FYI, the `www` version of your domain doesn't resolve. You might want to add a redirect.

Just FYI your logo is almost identical to that of Inoreader (apart from the color).

This is something I've been looking for for a while !! What about keywords for France? and in Arabic?

Instantly bookmarked! Great landing page, will definitely check this out. Keep up the great work :)

Do you provide keyword popularity and is it based on Google Keyword Tool data or clickstream data?

The question mark on the "KEYWORD DETAILS" on the pricing page... says... HEY ..... lol

this is so cool! Much simpler than all the other tools and even I know how to use it. Awesome work!

Thank you! This is great.

Do you happen to know keyword tools that specialize on app store and play store search?

Thanks for sharing! There’s so much opportunity to build lower cost tools here. Very cool.

FYI - Your FAQ at the bottom of each use-case page does not expand

Where do you get volume and CPC data? keyword planner API?

Awesome. All those tools are so freaking expensive.

How to understand the meaning of what I'm seeing on screen. I'm not versed into SEO but I'd like to. Your tool is very nice to use.

Email sign-up would be nice.

clicking FAQ from your hamburger menu button is busted fyi. good luck!

Hi - is there an API?

>Base your SEO strategy on higly precice and detailed data

>higly precice

looks cool do you have a trial version?

awesome design!

- No option to download as excel sheet

- No option to sort by columns