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Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

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Post by jhow15 »

framschwartz wrote: post #49
jhow15 wrote: post #47

Hey Noah, great work with Glimpse! Josh here from https://trennd.co/ which I recently built and launched on Show HN too. We're tackling the same problem of surfacing new trends, just in different ways! Interested to hear more about how you validate trends and reduce noise. I'm inclined to agree that this is the biggest challenge. I'm guessing it's a lot of manual verification on your end?

Hey Josh! Yes, fun stuff to be working on! We use a number of strategies to cut through the noise. One of strategies that's easiest to articulate is comparing a topic's trend lines on different channels to identify organic growth vs. inorganic growth. This is because we think it’s important to provide high quality trends that aren’t biased by data from one channel. We're also more inclined to share trends that we thi…

Yeah that makes a lot of sense to compare trend lines across channels - thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

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Post by chx »

vinhboy wrote: post #50
chx wrote: post #11

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.

> every newsroom we showed immediately wanted to acquire the company :D That's an amazing story. Where can I read more about this?

Ask away. Here's what the public knew at the time of Scan: https://mashable.com/2008/09/19/nowpublic-blog-scan/ and here's the acquisition https://venturebeat.com/2009/09/01/examinercom-snaps-up-citi... I will try to answer but if there's real interest, I haven't lost contact with the old team so we could perhaps do a Reddit AMA . Maybe? It's not so interesting after so long, really. Well, now I Google'd it I now remember we used MongoDB for initial storage, that was quite an early use for it and frankly ideal because we just needed to store quickly and if a few tweets got lost, big deal...

Here's a Scan example: https://web.archive.org/web/20081015004600/http://www.nowpub...

Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

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Post by dorgo »

pembrook wrote: post #24
bananocurrency wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the same boat -- stop sending me emails. If your tool is based on email, I'm not going to use it. Why does it matter that the comment is directed at the founder? No sense in screaming at a customer service rep to change company vision/direction/policy.

So, assuming you're interested receiving these reports, how do you propose they send them to you then? SMS? Fax? PDF printed and sent via snail mail? Facebook Message? Randomly logging in to their website to check if a new report is out? I always hear people complain about how many emails they get but I never understand it. I guess most people just passively give out their email address to everybody and are surprised…

API?

Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

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Post by wslh »

framschwartz wrote: post #36
wslh wrote: post #33

But this gives the information every month instead of when the growth is happening?

Exceedingly few trends - whether companies, products, industries, etc. become popular overnight. Truly sustainable trends have healthy growth curves, rarely propped up by huge spikes often caused by PR or unsustainable growth stunts. If we showed you everything that was happening the day or even week it started to be talked about or searched more than 100 times per day, you'd see a ton of noise, 99% of which would be…

I understand that this is true in general but you can add intelligence to the process and filter the noise (even with errors). For example, if there is a disease that is propagating (e.g. flu) you can understand that this trend means something different than a music show trend that sparks around a specufic event.

Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

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Post by gcatalfamo »

framschwartz wrote: post #2

Hey 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, I subscribed then invited friends and colleagues to get more trends, they subscribed, but nothing happened.

Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

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Post by qatanah »

jhow15 wrote: post #51
framschwartz wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Josh! Yes, fun stuff to be working on! We use a number of strategies to cut through the noise. One of strategies that's easiest to articulate is comparing a topic's trend lines on different channels to identify organic growth vs. inorganic growth. This is because we think it’s important to provide high quality trends that aren’t biased by data from one channel. We're also more inclined to share trends that we thi…

Yeah that makes a lot of sense to compare trend lines across channels - thanks for sharing!

Hey Josh! Loved the website and your work! ;)

Re: Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics

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Post by alexbanks »

lettergram wrote: post #32
framschwartz wrote: post #2

Hey 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…

Congratulations! We built a similar product: https://projectpiglet.com/ Except it appears we do filtering very differently. Our system also suggests points to enter and leave a given asset based on the information. It’s a pretty hard and crowded space. Feel free to look at some of my repos and blog posts, might shed some light on how to improve your system. Although your UI/UX is far superior

Maybe I do not understand something about your system (or how all of this is supposed to work). When I view companies/dashboards/the buy/sell and stock price screen, lots of data is from June? Some of the charts for a company show current information, but the top chart always stops at June? Is this right?
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