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Re:My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months by jimmytucson on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:20AM (#21692986)
Cool app! Curious about the data sources, or is that a secret sauce?

For example, you have "google cloud platform" trends going back 15 years - does that mean you have 15 years of data from all your data sources? How do you backfill that?

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Re:My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months by omarhaneef on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:29AM (#21693107)
From the medium article:

"I needed something that could surface opportunities by automatically monitoring the web for new topics. So that I can then plug them into Google Trends.

Heck, it could even check Google Trends itself so I don’t have to."

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Re:My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months by jhow15 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:32AM (#21693156)
Thank you! Yeah that's part of the secret sauce... but what I can say is that we monitor lots of different places: search, shopping, online communities looking for interesting topics and then we cross-check that against Google Trends data and curate topics ourselves.
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