Watch your competitors’ mentions
Your competitors’ users complain in public, and every complaint is a line of your roadmap or a buyer about to switch.
Nephia watches a rival’s name the way it watches yours, reads each mention for sentiment and intent, and files the comparisons and complaints apart.
A rival is one more keyword, with its spellings in the same search: Solo runs 3, Growth 10.
What a rival’s mentions tell you
- Complaints
- What breaks for their users, in their words, before it reaches a review site.
- Comparisons
- The threads that weigh you against them, where a good answer changes the choice.
- Switching
- Someone asking for an alternative is purchase intent with a name attached.
- Launches
- A new video, a Show HN, a Product Hunt launch, the day it appears.
The filter
q = payhook
Mentions of a rival
From the demo account. Acme, Payhook and every handle are fictional.
Redditr/SaaS302 score
Moved our billing from Payhook to Acme in a weekend, what broke and what didn’t
positivepraise
A migration described in the past tense, weighing what broke against what did not and landing positive.
Hacker NewsAsk HN412 points
Acme vs Payhook for usage-based billing, anyone run both?
questioncomparison
Asks the thread to compare two providers on usage-based billing, with no position of its own yet.
Redditr/startups64 score
Any Payhook alternative that does usage-based billing without a sales call?
questionpurchase intent
Asks for an alternative to Payhook with usage-based billing and no sales call. Looking to buy, and says so.
Questions
Does watching three spellings of my brand cost three times as much?
No, and that is the point. A search carries a list of terms and they are OR'd into a single request upstream, so “nephia”, “nephia.cc” and a common misspelling are one poll at the cost of one check. Your plan caps the list, 3 terms on Free, 10 on Solo, 50 on Pro, and the sources whose own search cannot do boolean OR (Hacker News and Bluesky both silently AND everything they are given) take one term and say so rather than quietly returning nothing.
N terms · 1 poll · 1 check
Will a competitor know I am watching?
No. Nephia reads public posts; it follows nobody, likes nothing and posts nothing, so there is nothing for anyone to see.
Does a competitor count as a keyword?
Yes. A keyword is one thing you watch, and a rival is one. Free runs 1, Solo 3, Growth 10 and Pro 30.