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A comment on Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media.

Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by akfaew on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:49AM (#25168962)
Hey, welcome to the club. I'm working on Syften.com.

I'm focused on helping startups engage in conversations, so I try to send the notification within one minute. Here for example is how I used Syften to grow Syften by an additonal $640 ARR from one Reddit comment: https://syften.com/blog/post/one-comment-640-arr/ . It also has features like being notified when someone replies to you on Hacker News.

PS. I'm wondering, how in the world can you monitor GitHub? There is no API that I know of. Surely you don't scrape the entire GitHub every minute?

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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that list... by fstopmick on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:18PM (#25171521)
Pleasure to connect, and congrats on the success! I envy your alert times :).

I actually don't scrape all of GitHub (or any platform)... I just simulate a user performing a keyword search and share new results.

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