This looks super cool, I just signed up :) FYI, the verification email landed in my spam folder.
Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#32Nice 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!
Nice, you have the foundation there which is great.
I'd also recommend making the faq table of contents into clickable links.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#33Love the pricing model and the UX is nice.
Three small things I noticed during sign-up:
1. Please let me sign-up from the pricing page. At least on my phone I couldn't find a direct link or button.
2. The "Save Upgrades" button is annoyingly sticky on my iPhone.
3. Email doesn't autofill.
Otherwise registering and adding an alert was smooth. Well done!
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#34It's like https://www.sprinklr.com but 1,000-4,000x cheaper (seriously).
Love the homepage.
EDIT: Question, I just tried the demo out on some very popular terms (e.g. "google", "Microsoft", etc) - it appears results are only returned for Twitter. If I unselect Twitter, "no results found".
Just an FYI in case that's not intended behavior.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#35It's like https://www.sprinklr.com but 1,000-4,000x cheaper (seriously). Love the homepage. EDIT: Question, I just tried the demo out on some very popular terms (e.g. "google", "Microsoft", etc) - it appears results are only returned for Twitter. If I unselect Twitter, "no results found". Just an FYI in case that's not intended behavior.
And I guess it's also like youtube-dl in the sense that it needs to continuously fight updates and/or banning from the sites it wants to download from.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#36Are you using public/legit APIs for all these services? Seems like you might be at risk for TOS violation for at least a couple.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#37Earlier 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!
Nice, you have the foundation there which is great. I'd also recommend making the faq table of contents into clickable links.
On it, thank you lprubin.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#38This is slick! I could see using this for one of my own projects. How do you get the data? Are you using the official apis or are you 'scraping'?
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#39If, like me, you clicked this expecting to find a tool that would aggregate posts from social media for their own consumption, not as a business intelligence tool, let me recommend https://fraidyc.at/.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#40This looks super cool, I just signed up :) FYI, the verification email landed in my spam folder.
Thanks for the heads up, others have said the same. Someone shared some deliverability tips with me that I'll be implementing asap.