Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News

Re:Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News by marcxmiller on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:46PM (#20822734)

The top story on HN changes around 10 - 20 times per day so it is nice to get a notification in Slack (or Discord, text, email, or your preferred method) when a new story hits #1.

My version of "Google Alerts" for Hacker News runs a cron job every five minutes that sends me a new Slack message each time a new story hits #1.

I know there’s a lot I can improve here and so would love any feedback, ideas and/or opinions.

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Re:Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News by jklehm on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:48PM (#20825274)

On the chance you hadn't seen it, I must mention this aggregator[0] since it addresses the issue you are facing down with your alerts except async.

[0] https://hckrnews.com/

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Re:Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News by stevejohnson0 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:30AM (#20828265)

Thanks for sharing.

Also pipedream looks really powerful (it looks like you're affiliated but correct me if I'm wrong). Any plans to support typescript and/or other languages?

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Re:Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News by dylburger on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:40PM (#20831814)

Hi, this is Dylan, a Pipedream founder.

Yes! We do plan to support other languages, but we're prioritizing other parts of the platform first, e.g. getting the developer UX right, environment separation, the ability to connect to accounts via OAuth, etc.

We've had a lot of requests for Python support, and we would love to ship support for TypeScript, as well.

I appreciate the feedback. Please let me know if you have any more!

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