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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

akfaew wrote: post #91

Hey, welcome to the club. I'm working on Syften.com. I'm focused on helping startups engage in conversations, so I try to send the notification within one minute. Here for example is how I used Syften to grow Syften by an additonal $640 ARR from one Reddit comment: https://syften.com/blog/post/one-comment-640-arr/ . It also has features like being notified when someone replies to you on Hacker News. PS. I'm wondering…

Pleasure to connect, and congrats on the success! I envy your alert times :).

I actually don't scrape all of GitHub (or any platform)... I just simulate a user performing a keyword search and share new results.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

markdown wrote: post #90

If you're taking feature requests, I have one for you: Let me filter the alerts. For example, I want an alert every time "foo" (a topic) comes up on social media. However, some fool just named their startup "foo", and now all searches for "foo" the topic are polluted with material about "foo" the startup. So maybe let me set up alerts for "foo -finance -money -banks" because the topic is about gardening and the start…

Ooh this is implemented! If you click on "Filters" at the top of any selected alert, you'll see options for keyword filtering, username filtering, and domain filtering. The UI/UX is a bit immature, so if you use it and have any feedback, I'm happy to address whatever friction you hit.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by tectonic »

kilroy123 wrote: post #87

I'm very curious how this is built, I've created something like this myself using a combination of tools. (huginn, rss-bridge, searchx, etc.)

Huginn author here (alerted by huginn to this post!) and I'd also like to know how it's implemented.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by markdown »

mickdaisy wrote: post #103
markdown wrote: post #90

If you're taking feature requests, I have one for you: Let me filter the alerts. For example, I want an alert every time "foo" (a topic) comes up on social media. However, some fool just named their startup "foo", and now all searches for "foo" the topic are polluted with material about "foo" the startup. So maybe let me set up alerts for "foo -finance -money -banks" because the topic is about gardening and the start…

Ooh this is implemented! If you click on "Filters" at the top of any selected alert, you'll see options for keyword filtering, username filtering, and domain filtering. The UI/UX is a bit immature, so if you use it and have any feedback, I'm happy to address whatever friction you hit.

Ooops, not sure how i missed that. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

Hi everyone - just wanted to drop a message here in case you sent me an email and I haven't responded yet.

First - thank you for the super supportive and encouraging vibes here, and for the candid feedback. Really, really appreciate how many improvements are going to be attributed directly to you.

Second - sorry for the delayed responses. I'm working through emails / messages / comments and promise to get back to you - I just don't want to rush through bugfixes and conversations, so it might take longer than I'd like.

Third - There have been a few reports of email verification breaking, and also of features not being fully enabled with Early Adopter subscriptions. This is my bad - the email verification flow didn't take into account case-insensitivity. Should be fixed now (for anyone impacted, you should have a new verification link in your inbox). Features should also be enabled by EOD today - the complexity of feature-by-feature upgrades is coming back to bite me now.

Fourth - I've authored a couple more notes to answer questions that have popped up:

Bizdev strategy / vision: https://www.karma.fm/p/SdjVjdj/the-pmalerts-strategy

How closely does PMAlerts listen?: https://www.karma.fm/p/rk3HI4d/how-closely-is-pmalerts-liste...

Thank you again,

- mick

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by jamyot »

mickdaisy wrote: post #108

Hi everyone - just wanted to drop a message here in case you sent me an email and I haven't responded yet. First - thank you for the super supportive and encouraging vibes here, and for the candid feedback. Really, really appreciate how many improvements are going to be attributed directly to you. Second - sorry for the delayed responses. I'm working through emails / messages / comments and promise to get back to you…

Hey Mick, really great tool and super useful, here are my bits of feedback: 1: When you customize what websites you want to listen to, you should also be able to customize what language you want to include/exclude (where I work, there is a univeristy in Italy with the same name, so google alerts floods my email with Italian website mentions, but they aren't actually relevant to us) 2: When I signed up, I got a message that said "something bad happened", the wording is a little alarming right after giving information, and it doesnt give any more info on what I can do/ where to go to fix things. It stopped giving that alert once I unchecked "custom". Like I said, awesome tool, keep it up!
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