If you’ve been paying attention to my emails recently, thank you, by the way. You’ll know that I launched my new project’s analytics offering as an MVP before validating it commercially.
Why?
Number one, that’s sort of how I work. It’s both a strength and a weakness.
Number two?
I don’t want to try to validate something I can’t show.
First impressions count, and being able to offer something tangible means a lot more than asking someone to imagine what something might eventually become.
I learned that lesson the hard way...
Some of you might remember MissingTopics
It was a tool that was ahead of its time in some ways.
You’d put in a URL or article, and it would extract the topics, visit the SERP and extract the topics from what I called “the champion list” aka… the top-ranking results on Google.
MissingTopics would then score your paragraphs for topical completeness and show you which topics or entities were missing.
I originally showcased the idea in 2019 with a Streamlit application, developed it further in 2020, before ultimately returning to it when AI first truly hit the scene.
That final version could generate additional paragraphs incorporating the missing topics naturally into your article.