Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at any follower level

Posted by edgarasben on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:35PM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey all! On X, big stars are easy to spot, but finding awesome smaller accounts isn't. I built Big on X - a talent leaderboard that finds rising stars early. Whether you've got 100 or 1M followers, if you're growing, we'll highlight you. Check it out if you're curious about up-and-coming X accounts:)

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by lqcfcjx on Sunday August 18, 2024 @05:09PM (#41285531)

this looks interesting. just curious how did you collect this data? i believe it's ridiculously expensive to use X api.

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by edgarasben on Sunday August 18, 2024 @06:08PM (#41285932)

It's public data, so it's quite limited. But even with limited data it's possible to be a little creative:)

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by slater on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:51PM (#41285400)

Two tiny bits of feedback:

- Don't link directly to an account's avatar image. None of them load for me, because of cross-domain blocking (macOS, Firefox)

- Make the tables sortable by clicking on table headers

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by edgarasben on Sunday August 18, 2024 @06:09PM (#41285941)

Thank you for the feedback! Is this specific to your browser? I would like to avoid hosting the images myself, at least for now.

For the sorting, good idea!

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by slater on Sunday August 18, 2024 @09:25PM (#41287007)

Might be UBlock Origin, not sure.

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by edgarasben on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:51AM (#41289163)

Yeah probably some browser plugin. Referring to external images should be quite common on the web?

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by slater on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:13PM (#41295931)

Frowned upon, tho ;)

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by edgarasben on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @06:08AM (#41298536)

Do you mind testing if it's better now?:)

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by slater on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:34AM (#41300995)

Works! Now, table sorting... >:]

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by mtmail on Sunday August 18, 2024 @05:14PM (#41285565)

Took me a while to realize there are multiple tables.

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by edgarasben on Sunday August 18, 2024 @06:10PM (#41285952)

Fixed it! Each group meant to have only top 10 accounts. Will probably add "Show more" button, to reveal more accounts in a group.

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by dankwizard on Sunday August 18, 2024 @11:38PM (#41287594)

1 - is this scanning every account? i thought X did some fancy stuff where an API hit would only ping a random ~1-5% of the total base. the 100k->1m tier list looks especially wrong

2 - whats time on growth? is it +x% in 24 hours / what time frame?

3 - cool

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by edgarasben on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:22AM (#41289010)

1 - good question! using public data only for now, so I have to add usernames manually, but I also have an automatic scaling mechanism, where I discover "recommended" usernames for each user.

2 - for now it's daily only, last 24hours. Once I have more data I will display 7 days, 30 days and 365 days switcher.

3 - thnx :D

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by tomaslau on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:33AM (#41289060)

1. Awesome.

2. I suggest you add a short paragraph or a button to explain the methodology. I see you answered these questions in some comments already, but I'm sure other visitors may have similar questions.

3. Well done!

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Re:Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at a... by edgarasben on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:50AM (#41289160)

Thanks! Will do that next!

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