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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 akfaew »

Hey, welcome to the club. I'm working on Syften.com.

I'm focused on helping startups engage in conversations, so I try to send the notification within one minute. Here for example is how I used Syften to grow Syften by an additonal $640 ARR from one Reddit comment: https://syften.com/blog/post/one-comment-640-arr/ . It also has features like being notified when someone replies to you on Hacker News.

PS. I'm wondering, how in the world can you monitor GitHub? There is no API that I know of. Surely you don't scrape the entire GitHub every minute?

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

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Post by adrianh »

mickdaisy wrote: post #80
uberneo wrote: post #79

Great product!! Super simple to onboard, cheap and very useful. What service are you using from sending Emails and Text notification?

Thanks uberneo! I'm using Sendgrid for emails (looking to switch to something with high deliverability, high trust, and easy analytics if you have any suggestions!) and Twilio for texts (super friendly SDKs).

Postmark is great for sending transactional email with high deliverability.

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

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Post by kyriee »

mickdaisy wrote: post #14
cmg wrote: post #12

This is really, really cool. And I love the home page! Being able to see results before signing up is great. I'm not a potential customer right now, but the text on the pricing page "If you find a payment bug (incorrect charges, broken UI, etc), let me know and I'll give you the full version of PMAlerts for free, for life." would absolutely give me pause. A simple addition if you're actually dealing with payment issu…

I very much appreciate the candid feedback, cmg. I'll update the copy now.

Seconded.

Maybe push the security aspect? Have a tier be “bug bounty” and add something like “PM alerts are for users only. Report a bug and get a free version, for life”

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

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Post by mickdaisy »

kyriee wrote: post #95
mickdaisy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I very much appreciate the candid feedback, cmg. I'll update the copy now.

Seconded. Maybe push the security aspect? Have a tier be “bug bounty” and add something like “PM alerts are for users only. Report a bug and get a free version, for life”

I like this a lot. I'll incorporate it - thank you!

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

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Post by mickdaisy »

ykat7 wrote: post #86
mickdaisy wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?"

Yes, for sure. If you'd like to help me nail down the MVP for this, feel free to send an email (m@pmalerts.com). Would love to have some company over there.

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

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Post by mickdaisy »

kevsim wrote: post #88

Cool 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.

Hey Kevsim - thanks for the heads up and sorry about that - that's a familiar bug that I thought was fixed. I'll try to repro, would love to connect via email to confirm any attempted fixes - m@pmalerts.com

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

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Post by mickdaisy »

tug0fwar wrote: post #94

Hi, you should hide elements with CSS instead of with JS, following is visible on visiting the page with JS disabled. "A confirmation link has been sent to your email. If you register and confirm your email, you can skip this step."

Thanks for the heads up about this

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

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Post by mickdaisy »

northpoleescape wrote: post #82

Nice 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.

Thank you! Most platforms have a combination of "poll via search engines" and "poll natively". Native polling mirrors the functionality of performing a keyword search using the platform's search functionality.
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