Competitors
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Beacons is an all-in-one platform designed for social media creators to manage their online presence. It provides a customizable 'link in bio' page, tools for selling digital products and memberships, email marketing, and analytics to help creators monetize their audience and secure brand deals.
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Membership & Monetization
Reader Engagement Metrics
Rich Text Editor
Distribution & Recommendation Engine
Community Feedback Tools
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User Profiles & Following
Email Newsletter Integration
Mobile App Access
Social Sharing & Embedding
Search & Discovery
Publication Management
Tags & Topics
Audio Story Playback
Beacons is primarily a 'link in bio' tool for creators, offering features like a customizable profile page, analytics, and monetization options (selling digital products, memberships). While it has some features that overlap with an online publishing platform (like email marketing and analytics), it lacks the core 'rich text editor' for long-form content creation and a 'distribution & recommendation engine' for surfacing content within its own platform, which are must-have features for Medium. It focuses more on aggregating existing social media content and direct sales/marketing for creators rather than hosting and distributing original long-form articles.
I've been using Alternative A for 6 months now and it's been fantastic. The pricing is much better and the features are actually more robust than what [Product] offers.
It handles edge cases much better and the API
is actually documented properly.
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Honestly, after trying both, Competitor B wins hands down. Better customer support, cleaner interface, and they don't nickel and dime you for every feature.