Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people

Re:Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people by jonathancai on Thursday July 22, 2021 @05:32PM (#27924612)

Again, like stated in my other comments, we initially started out with these people because they were the people we mainly read, but we plan on expanding outside of the bubble.

Let me flip it back on you - which types of people would you want to see?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people by marc__1 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @06:51PM (#27925301)

Can't you build workflows for auto addition? This way, your platform would have exponential more content and therefore interest

- if more than x ppl searching for a person then add

- if more than x followers on twitter

- if more than x citations on google scholar

You get the point.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people by jonathancai on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:34PM (#27926024)

Our service is not entirely scalable yet, as there is still quite a bit of manual work being done behind the curtain.

But the other larger concern is that many large accounts don’t necessarily post much original content. Or rather noisy content. Or they’re an organization, and not a person.

We want to do quality control over who gets indexed, at least initially.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people by iMuzz on Thursday July 22, 2021 @09:13PM (#27926220)

We do a bit of the first 2. The third we never considered.

That's a great idea.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people by clircle on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:49PM (#27926987)

Personally, I would find academics and researchers more useful, especially if they could be tagged by keywords

[ Parent | on HN ]