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Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
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#82Nice work!
You mentioned you are using serpapi in one the response below. Are you simply fetching results from Google or are you also using some other ways to monitor these sites like
Facebook, Reddit and others natively. I would be curious to understand how you implemented it.
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#83This 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.
I've also had issues with deliverability. Please share what you learnt about this if you don't mind me asking.
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#84my antivirus blocked this page
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#85For anyone curious about the services being used to support platform polling, I'm using serpapi.com for the Custom and LinkedIn options on PMAlerts. I highly recommend experimenting with this service - lots of potential gets unlocked as soon as you work around arbitrary scraping limitations that Google throws up. Plus, Julien from serpapi is awesome and super accessible.
How are you getting the data from Twitter and Facebook?
Not OP, but they stated for Twitter they use LinqToTwitter (.NET), for Facebook is a custom { hack } to acomplish.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congrats on your Show HN! I absolutely liked your copy. Is karma.fm one of your side projects too?
Thanks very much! And yes it is - I'm using PMAlerts to learn how to listen, and Karma is teaching me how to think and write (though it's a bit less mature)
Do you plan to post about karma.fm when it comes out of alpha?
I'd be interested in the Zettelkasten and second brain examples under "How can Karma help me?"
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#87I'm very curious how this is built, I've created something like this myself using a combination of tools. (huginn, rss-bridge, searchx, etc.)
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#88Cool tool! I added it to our slack and did a /pmalerts a couple of times in a channel (twice I think) without first inviting your bot to that channel and I got A LOT (10+) of messages from the bot. Seems like something's a little off there.
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#89There's https://brand24.com/ that might do something similar
Re: Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media
#90If you're taking feature requests, I have one for you:
Let me filter the alerts. For example, I want an alert every time "foo" (a topic) comes up on social media. However, some fool just named their startup "foo", and now all searches for "foo" the topic are polluted with material about "foo" the startup.
So maybe let me set up alerts for "foo -finance -money -banks" because the topic is about gardening and the startup is in the financial services sector.