I love the idea. Does this support searching for links to a specific domain? I tried adding my personal blog (without the http:// prefix) and no results showed up.
Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
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#72Really nice tool! Couple things I'm running into:
1. I registered on my laptop, opened account verification email on my phone. Verification link says I'm verified, laptop say's I'm not even after logging out/in.
2. It says 5 alerts are free, but at 3 alerts I'm presented with a message stating I've reached my limit.
3. Last pass doesn't seem to like the email field on sign in. It won't autofill it :(
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#73Nice work. Have you considered creating a page/blog post the explains how you've used your own tool to find paying customers? Doing that would provide a ton of value I think: 1. You'll (hopefully) find new customers 2. By using your own tool regularly, you'll gain invaluable insight into UX issues and new feature ideas. 3. Potential customers on your site would get to read through a play by play story about somebody…
I LOVE this thinking. I have a small write-up about "how I'm using PMAlerts to drive growth for PMAlerts" here: https://www.karma.fm/p/BcMEfxQ/frequently-asked-questions But it's not presented as a formalized case study and doesn't provide the value you're proposing (to me or others). I'll do it!
Congrats on your Show HN!
I absolutely liked your copy.
Is karma.fm one of your side projects too?
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#74Really nice tool! Couple things I'm running into: 1. I registered on my laptop, opened account verification email on my phone. Verification link says I'm verified, laptop say's I'm not even after logging out/in. 2. It says 5 alerts are free, but at 3 alerts I'm presented with a message stating I've reached my limit. 3. Last pass doesn't seem to like the email field on sign in. It won't autofill it :(
I'm hearing similar feedback from others on all three items - if you shoot me your email to m@pmalerts.com I'll upgrade + verify you manually while I troubleshoot. Thanks for confirming these, and sorry for the headache!
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I LOVE this thinking. I have a small write-up about "how I'm using PMAlerts to drive growth for PMAlerts" here: https://www.karma.fm/p/BcMEfxQ/frequently-asked-questions But it's not presented as a formalized case study and doesn't provide the value you're proposing (to me or others). I'll do it!
Congrats on your Show HN! I absolutely liked your copy. Is karma.fm one of your side projects too?
Thanks very much! And yes it is - I'm using PMAlerts to learn how to listen, and Karma is teaching me how to think and write (though it's a bit less mature)
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#76I'm floored with this app. Well done!!! If you don't mind me asking...how did you manage to scrape linkedin?
Thank you! Right now LinkedIn results show you what you'd see from a timeboxed google search, like "ryanr site:linkedin.com", but this will change once I have either 1) time to implement deep native polling, or 2) a service that does it for me (high confidence in 2 becoming available soon).
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#77I love the idea. Does this support searching for links to a specific domain? I tried adding my personal blog (without the http:// prefix) and no results showed up.
Thanks nyellin - and for sure! If you used the onboarding flow or "result preview" functionality, you'll only see recent Twitter results. But if you create an alert for your personal blog and select "Custom" along with other platforms, you'll be notified whenever someone drops your link AND (important) it isn't shortened by something like bitly.
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#78For anyone curious about the services being used to support platform polling, I'm using serpapi.com for the Custom and LinkedIn options on PMAlerts. I highly recommend experimenting with this service - lots of potential gets unlocked as soon as you work around arbitrary scraping limitations that Google throws up. Plus, Julien from serpapi is awesome and super accessible.
How are you getting the data from Twitter and Facebook?
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#79Great product!! Super simple to onboard, cheap and very useful.
What service are you using from sending Emails and Text notification?
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#80Great product!! Super simple to onboard, cheap and very useful. What service are you using from sending Emails and Text notification?
Thanks uberneo! I'm using Sendgrid for emails (looking to switch to something with high deliverability, high trust, and easy analytics if you have any suggestions!) and Twilio for texts (super friendly SDKs).