Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list...
by amelius on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:29PM
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And I guess it's also like youtube-dl in the sense that it needs to continuously fight updates and/or banning from the sites it wants to download from.
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list...
by fstopmick on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:54PM
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yeah, it's not as fixed-cost as I'd hoped
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list...
by amelius on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:00PM
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Have you considered open-sourcing the libraries that fetch content from these platforms? You could build an entire community that helps you maintain the code ...
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list...
by fstopmick on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:30PM
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I haven't, mostly because I'm scared of the liability. My code is pretty sketchy for everything but Twitter, and for that I use LinqToTwitter (.NET) which is already OSS (and amazing).
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list...
by fstopmick on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:39PM
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Yeah - the onboarding flow (insta-results) only supports Twitter. Other platforms are polled run on a recurring basis and take ~10 minutes to show results, so when you create an alert you'll see stuff from other places. I need to make that clear on the onboarding flow - it's a UX bug. Thanks very much for the feedback and love.
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list...
by onli on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:22PM
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Also on the site itself, because I did not realize that at all! Good to know!
I know that one of my sites is mentioned on one of the services that is not twitter, and not seeing it in the preview results gave me pause.
Nice site otherwise, best of luck!
Love the homepage.
EDIT: Question, I just tried the demo out on some very popular terms (e.g. "google", "Microsoft", etc) - it appears results are only returned for Twitter. If I unselect Twitter, "no results found".
Just an FYI in case that's not intended behavior.