FollowStats - keep track of your followers and subscribers and get weekly emails
Soumya Ranjan Mohanty

Soumya Ranjan Mohanty @geekysrm

About: Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Ex-Dell, JLL, Hasura | Google Certified MWS | Google India Scholar '18 | Full stack dev | 600K+ views on blogs

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FollowStats - keep track of your followers and subscribers and get weekly emails

Publish Date: Jan 14 '22
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Overview of My Submission

As part of the MongoDB Atlas + Dev hackathon, I am glad to present FollowStats.
FollowStats enables you to be more intentional about building an audience and helps you to track your followers, subscribers from various platforms periodically. It keeps a daily track of your followers and subscribers count. You can view your growth/ decline of your followers and subscribers in an organized dashboard.
It also sends you a weekly overview of your audience to your email every Monday morning at 09:00.

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Submission Category: Action Star

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My Submission for MongoDB - Dev.to hackathon 2022.

FollowStats

Overview of My Submission

As part of the MongoDB Atlas + Dev hackathon, I am glad to present FollowStats FollowStats enables you to be more intentional about building an audience and helps you to track your followers, subscribers from various platforms periodically. It keeps a daily track of your followers and subscribers count. You can view your growth/ decline of your followers and subscribers in an organized dashboard It also sends you a weekly overview of your audience to your email every Monday morning at 09:00.

Live Application

Submission Category: Action Star

How to run the application locally

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Additional Resources / Info

Screenshots and Video

User Dashboard
User Dashboard

Settings Page

Settings Page

Weekly Email Report

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I have prepared a demo video which can be viewed here: Video Link

How to run the application locally: 

AUTH0_SECRET=<Auth0 secret>
AUTH0_BASE_URL='http://localhost:3000'
AUTH0_ISSUER_BASE_URL=<Auth0 domain>
AUTH0_CLIENT_ID=<Auth0 client ID>
AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET=<Auth0 client secret>
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My experience

I had previously used MongoDB but was unaware of the cool functionalities like Realm functions, triggers etc.
I was really fascinated by how easy it is to build your backend using MongoDB Realm functions. We can easily import npm packages and use those too. I also used triggers for the first time to fetch followers' count everyday and send email report every Monday.

Technologies used

  • MongoDB Realm functions for backend
  • MongoDB Realm Triggers to keep track of follower count on schedule and send email on Monday
  • Auth0 for login
  • Taiwind CSS for styling
  • Next.js as frontend framework

Challenges faced

The major challenge was to figure out the way to fetch followers/ subscribers data from various platforms. I had to try many methods (like using official API, scraping etc.) before I arrived at a method that works.

What's next for FollowStats?

  • Add more platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn and newsletter platforms like Mailchimp, Convertkit, Buttondown etc.
  • Add charts and graphs to visualize followers' growth.

Try it Out

Live Application
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Please try this out and give your valuable feedback in the comments below or on Twitter.

Again thanks to @mongodb_staff and @thepracticaldev for this amazing opportunity!

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