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
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#82I 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…
This is only a “problem” if you take “this service should exist” as axiomatic.
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#83Useful 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!
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#84Re: Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people
#85I 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…
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#86For 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.
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#87I 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…
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#88"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.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
we sincerely hope you get that car of yours!
Why do you want that guy to die? Kind of messed up.
Although it can get problematic for those who do this technique if he gets murdered.