NowPublic did a tool like that in 2008 intended for the use of newsrooms but we never got a single subscriber, every newsroom we showed immediately wanted to acquire the company :D Eventually one did. It was a relatively primitive affair extracting information from the Twitter gardenhose with Stanford NLP and storing / retrieving with Xapian. There was nothing like that at the time as far as I am aware.
Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
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#12NowPublic did a tool like that in 2008 intended for the use of newsrooms but we never got a single subscriber, every newsroom we showed immediately wanted to acquire the company :D Eventually one did. It was a relatively primitive affair extracting information from the Twitter gardenhose with Stanford NLP and storing / retrieving with Xapian. There was nothing like that at the time as far as I am aware.
Very cool! And yes, all the data is out there and is public, it's just a problem of filtering through the noise to get the signal. Because 1. at a non exorbitant cost
2. in a time period where it takes less time than the cycle of information otherwise it's useless by the time the trend is surfaced.
Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
#13Hey everyone, founder here. A few friends and I built Glimpse to surface trending topics - companies, products, industries, everything - and we send out curated trend reports via email. The way it works is we first capture nearly every topic online, then we look at frequency of discussion, searches, shares, etc. around each topic. Beyond just the growth in frequency, our software looks for indicators that a trend is…
Hi, do you track HN frontpage too? Glimpse sounds good, at the moment I use https://trennd.co, glad to see you are both building interesting solutions.
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#14NowPublic did a tool like that in 2008 intended for the use of newsrooms but we never got a single subscriber, every newsroom we showed immediately wanted to acquire the company :D Eventually one did. It was a relatively primitive affair extracting information from the Twitter gardenhose with Stanford NLP and storing / retrieving with Xapian. There was nothing like that at the time as far as I am aware.
Very cool! And yes, all the data is out there and is public, it's just a problem of filtering through the noise to get the signal. Because 1. at a non exorbitant cost 2. in a time period where it takes less time than the cycle of information otherwise it's useless by the time the trend is surfaced.
Yeah, as I said, this was primitive: Stanford NLP was used to extract keywords out of tweets and then it was down to measure the velocity of keywords.
Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
#15A solution seeking a problem, to be sure.
In what sense? This seems like a great tool for trend forecasting, and hedge funds are constantly spending millions for this sort of data.
Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
#16Hey everyone, founder here. A few friends and I built Glimpse to surface trending topics - companies, products, industries, everything - and we send out curated trend reports via email. The way it works is we first capture nearly every topic online, then we look at frequency of discussion, searches, shares, etc. around each topic. Beyond just the growth in frequency, our software looks for indicators that a trend is…
Hi there! As the former head of product for a tool in a related space, I'm curious how you're handling the high data costs involved in building these businesses?
Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
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I absolutely love what you're doing. I'd love the subscribe. But most buttons don't work on your homepage! Also, I'd love the check the pricing - but can't for the same reason.
> I'd love the check the pricing $0/mo | Every month | 2 Exponential Trends $29/mo | Every month | 7 Exponential Trends | 3 Exponential+ Trends | Before-It-Happens alerts | Get last 2 reports on signup | Insights for each trend $479/mo | Every month | 10 Exponential Trends | 5 Exponential+ Trends | Before-It-Happens alerts | Get last 3 reports on signup | Insights for each trend | Add your team members
I guess they decided to follow their datasets and offer exponential pricing as well!
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Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics
#20Hey everyone, founder here. A few friends and I built Glimpse to surface trending topics - companies, products, industries, everything - and we send out curated trend reports via email. The way it works is we first capture nearly every topic online, then we look at frequency of discussion, searches, shares, etc. around each topic. Beyond just the growth in frequency, our software looks for indicators that a trend is…
Would be helpful to see a sample report (even a non-current one) before signing up.