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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by amelius »

mickdaisy wrote: post #47
amelius wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

yeah, it's not as fixed-cost as I'd hoped

Have you considered open-sourcing the libraries that fetch content from these platforms? You could build an entire community that helps you maintain the code ...

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

makeee wrote: post #60

Nice work! I'd love something that alerted me to mentions in Discord servers. Not sure if that's doable without having a bot in every server.. but I'd pay for that.

Hmmm... I could have a setting for PMAlerts integrations (slack, teams, discord, zoom) that configures it to not only feed alert results into the app, but to listen to that server's contents for you and only you. A bit tricky with privacy implications, but technically feasible. I'll have a think on it - thanks for the love.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by huhtenberg »

When trying to set up an Hourly alert on a free account it says "Please _register_ your account to ...". Apparently, it's a $10/mo feature, so you may want to reword the message to explain that and also link respective part of the price list from the message itself.

Also, "Purchase Upgrades" button is not clickable - https://i.imgur.com/uIyrIFv.gif

PS. I'm curious to see how well it works, but from what I saw so far - well done, break a leg. Saying this as a user of Talkwalker and F5Bot ;)

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

huhtenberg wrote: post #63

When trying to set up an Hourly alert on a free account it says "Please _register_ your account to ...". Apparently, it's a $10/mo feature, so you may want to reword the message to explain that and also link respective part of the price list from the message itself. Also, "Purchase Upgrades" button is not clickable - https://i.imgur.com/uIyrIFv.gif PS. I'm curious to see how well it works, but from what I saw so far…

Ack, thanks for the heads up RE the "register" copy. Just pushed a fix.

Edit: RE the Upgrade button - once that 0 goes to nonzero, it should work. It's poor design on my end, I'll improve the UX asap. Thanks for trying it out, and for the feedback :).

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

amelius wrote: post #61
mickdaisy wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, it's not as fixed-cost as I'd hoped

Have you considered open-sourcing the libraries that fetch content from these platforms? You could build an entire community that helps you maintain the code ...

I haven't, mostly because I'm scared of the liability. My code is pretty sketchy for everything but Twitter, and for that I use LinqToTwitter (.NET) which is already OSS (and amazing).

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by makeee »

mickdaisy wrote: post #62
makeee wrote: post #60

Nice work! I'd love something that alerted me to mentions in Discord servers. Not sure if that's doable without having a bot in every server.. but I'd pay for that.

Hmmm... I could have a setting for PMAlerts integrations (slack, teams, discord, zoom) that configures it to not only feed alert results into the app, but to listen to that server's contents for you and only you . A bit tricky with privacy implications, but technically feasible. I'll have a think on it - thanks for the love.

Cool, just signed up! Transitioning my Zapier-powered twitter alerts over. Love the thought you've put into this, like ability to hide results authored by certain usernames.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

krelian wrote: post #67

I really like this! If you don't mind sharing, how much time roughly was spent from the time you wrote the first line of code and until this launch? I'm curious about these things.

Thanks very much! The prototype was a console application I built a little under a year ago (Jan 2020). I've been chipping away at it on nights and weekends since then... maybe about 10 hours per week on average (some none, some double). So ~10 full-time weeks? 9 too many

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

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Post by mickdaisy »

makeee wrote: post #66
mickdaisy wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmmm... I could have a setting for PMAlerts integrations (slack, teams, discord, zoom) that configures it to not only feed alert results into the app, but to listen to that server's contents for you and only you . A bit tricky with privacy implications, but technically feasible. I'll have a think on it - thanks for the love.

Cool, just signed up! Transitioning my Zapier-powered twitter alerts over. Love the thought you've put into this, like ability to hide results authored by certain usernames.

Woohoo! Email is m@pmalerts.com if you need anything (a bit behind at the moment, but I generally aim for responses within a day). Would love to connect + learn more about your use-case and general needs/challenges in this space.
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