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HodlFeed – a Cryptocurrency Newsfeed

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Re: HodlFeed – a Cryptocurrency Newsfeed

#51

any details to methodology, which news sites are being used? also, any plans to add analysis from medium / twitter?

Yes medium and twitter are in the pipeline. Sites are being selected based quality of articles.

cool - i find a lot of useful analysis from medium and twitter.

how is quality of articles determined? is there a working list of sites currently included / excluded?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes medium and twitter are in the pipeline. Sites are being selected based quality of articles.

cool - i find a lot of useful analysis from medium and twitter. how is quality of articles determined? is there a working list of sites currently included / excluded?

Right now its crypto focused sites, but I find some of them to be positive leaning. Likewise the traditional finance sites seem to be negative leaning. My goal is to add source sentiment so you can see all the sources and which way they lean for all articles. You will also be able to filter the sources you wish to see. Quality of sources/articles are based on reading though the articles, comparing them to similar articles from other sources and making a determination whether or not its a unique article or a spin off another one.

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#53
post #35

Compare with https://cryptopanic.com

They don't compete, they compliment each other. Cryptopanic gives you manual user ratings, Hodlfeed gives you text sentiment ratings. It's a perfect combo, especially if you add in another site like http://solume.io

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

cool - i find a lot of useful analysis from medium and twitter. how is quality of articles determined? is there a working list of sites currently included / excluded?

Right now its crypto focused sites, but I find some of them to be positive leaning. Likewise the traditional finance sites seem to be negative leaning. My goal is to add source sentiment so you can see all the sources and which way they lean for all articles. You will also be able to filter the sources you wish to see. Quality of sources/articles are based on reading though the articles, comparing them to similar art…

Awesome! I think it's important to segregate social media, blog and news media sentiment data. The differences are important, for example, news media will usually run a story on something that already has social buzz. People who post on Medium are probably already invested (in the financial and effort sense) in some side of the conversation. Twitter posts might be fleeting thoughts on a project.

To help beginner's, you might consider some combined number that weighs each rating differently according to what you think is important.

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now its crypto focused sites, but I find some of them to be positive leaning. Likewise the traditional finance sites seem to be negative leaning. My goal is to add source sentiment so you can see all the sources and which way they lean for all articles. You will also be able to filter the sources you wish to see. Quality of sources/articles are based on reading though the articles, comparing them to similar art…

Awesome! I think it's important to segregate social media, blog and news media sentiment data. The differences are important, for example, news media will usually run a story on something that already has social buzz. People who post on Medium are probably already invested (in the financial and effort sense) in some side of the conversation. Twitter posts might be fleeting thoughts on a project. To help beginner's, y…

Great points. I think showing all of them on a graph separated will allow you to see how each is affecting the overall sentiment. Being able to make custom feeds will also empower you to make your own weights.

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#57
post #29
post #2

Takes about 6 secs or more to fully load the feed on my work desktop. Looks like this API request is to blame: https://api.hodlfeed.com/coin-types ?

Where can I find more information about the API? I think this would be great to incorperate in a trading bot.

We plan on adding a real-time socket option for trading bots once we add additional sources and ensure sentiment analysis is solid.

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#58
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where can I find more information about the API? I think this would be great to incorperate in a trading bot.

We plan on adding a real-time socket option for trading bots once we add additional sources and ensure sentiment analysis is solid.

Great news. I'll be keeping an eye out.

Re: HodlFeed – a Cryptocurrency Newsfeed

#59
post #31

I like this feed - a more centralized collection of cryptocurrency news, however it is unfortunate that left sidebar does not show currency. At the moment of writing this comment it BTC is worth 13081.8 of something.. is it USD, EUR, LTL?

Currently its in USD, but good point. I will show it in USD and add the ability to change the currency of your choice.

The first thing I went looking for, was a way to set this to EUR, because I am european. There is no such setting.

A small word of unwanted advice for anyone developing anything related to crypto-currency tickers: don't add "multi currency" as an afterthought. E.g. coinmarketcap's API, or the CoinCap interface have hacked this in. It's ugly, inconsistent and feels amateurish. Nothing wrong with adding "mutli-currency" in a later phase, but this is certainly not a "YANGI" thing: There are far, far more people out there, who will want to use your product, but who don't use USD than there are that use USD.

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#60
post #9

The sentiment section filters out "blocks" and "block" as negative words. I feel like you should block it from doing that, considering the subject matter.

Thanks, we will add these to the excluded words

Can you make an API available to paying customers? I'm trying to contact you directly but there is no contact information on the website.
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