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Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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Neat, but "Google Alerts for famous people" already exists. It is called..Google Alerts. Maybe sell it as "a better Google Alerts" or something.

Google Alerts has a bad reputation. https://www.gwern.net/Google-Alerts

That's irrelevant. My point is you can't advertise your service as "X for Y" when X already does Y.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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I have mixed feelings about this as someone that creates a bunch of content across different platforms. I intentionally spread it out across platforms as different platforms have different groups of people that follow me and engage with things differently. This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking. It would be nice if there was an explicit opt-in for creators having their feeds associated here…

Appreciate the feedback here /u/xena — > This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking. So we make sure to only aggregate publicly available information that the creator released and never include pieces about them or from someone else. We also make sure not to aggregate any gated/paywalled content. The problem with having every creator opt-in is that that we'd never be able to launch the profiles…

> The problem with having every creator opt-in is that that we'd never be able to launch the profiles because there are so many creators.

This is only a “problem” if you take “this service should exist” as axiomatic.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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Useful for tracking citations of your favorite white papers. Or in one extreme case of mine, to monitor for that obituary of a certain folk who refuse to sell their rusted classic car on their property. (Because, I covet it).

we sincerely hope you get that car of yours!

Why do you want that guy to die? Kind of messed up.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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I have mixed feelings about this as someone that creates a bunch of content across different platforms. I intentionally spread it out across platforms as different platforms have different groups of people that follow me and engage with things differently. This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking. It would be nice if there was an explicit opt-in for creators having their feeds associated here…

If you want to keep your identities separate, then use different identities (hopefully Alias will not dox you). If you want people to have to manually find your different public profiles and not use a tool to do so, that sounds unreasonable.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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I have a question: How do these way early startups put together such animated, great looking website / landing pages? Are one of you founders just brilliant front end designers? Is there some kind of easy/cheap service I’m missing out there? Did you just spend some crazy money on getting the page custom done for you? This isn’t just some theme that was altered for you. The graphics, animations and layout are all matc…

You know how everyone shouts learn to code? To coders/founders I say learn to design. Or give more of your equity than you think you should to a designer. The nice thing about design is its pretty easy to see examples and references and most designers would actually be happy to work at a start up from the beginning as part of the founding team, its just that in a lot of the tech world designers aren't viewed as integral until after the fact and really the track record of design-led startups and your reaction to ones that are polished out of the gate should indicate otherwise. Contrary to what OP said /u/iMuzz isn't really even a unicorn designer, there's plenty just like them, you've just got to decide its important and find a way to invest time, money, or effort.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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"For your favourite people" For some of my favourite people. There are many, maybe niche, personalities I can't see listed. I was hoping that I could put anyone 's name in there, not just predefined ones.

Yes, I'm not sure if I really feel the need to use something like this anyway, but none of the names I searched for were listed.

Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

we sincerely hope you get that car of yours!

Why do you want that guy to die? Kind of messed up.

It’s a polite way of waiting for the car and hopefully first in line.

Although it can get problematic for those who do this technique if he gets murdered.

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