Little Birdie

Productivity

brand mention alerts

SHOW HN2017

132points
31comments
#309of 2,242 in 2017
Top 14%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.

Pricing: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful service for tracking HN mentions

    From 2 comments

Objections

  • Site lacks a contact email and looks shady

    From 1 comment
    • can you put at least a contact email on that page? looks shady although very useful service (using it already). What are your future plans for it?
      ruslan_talpa on HN

Requests

  • Filter by source such as excluding Reddit

    From 1 comment
    • Would be great if we could select source (eg. not have Reddit)
      rrggrr on HN
  • Notify on front page content matches and vote thresholds

    From 2 comments
    • Free product idea: Same general concept but applied to the content of sites that make the front page. In your Bitcoin example, one would be notified if the displayed content of…
      koolba on HN
    • Another suggestion: Send me the posts in the front page that have more than 100 (or any amount) votes. Or maybe a daily message of yesterdays front page. Thanks!
      guillegette on HN

Questions

  • How matching works internally

    From 1 comment
    • Cool. Is there a blog post somewhere that shows how it works internally? I'm curious if there's some formal named entity recognition, or more basic string matching. Would it work…
      tyingq on HN

Alternatives named

  • Zapier

    From 1 comment
    • Do not wanna be that guy, but you can do that with Zapier and way more https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-your-company-name-mentioned-hacker-news/ We…
      LeonidBugaev on HN
  • HNWatcher

    From 1 comment
  • F5Bot

    From 1 comment
    • F5Bot[1] is a free alternative that sends an email instead. [1] https://f5bot.com
      fridaa on HN
  • Mention

    From 1 comment
    • Mention (https://web.mention.com/) is also another social mention tracker. I use it for an open source project and would recommend it.
      ngokevin on HN
  • Notify.ly

    From 1 comment
    • There's also https://notify.ly/ which includes "dozens of sources, like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Reddit, Blogs, News, Medium & Product Hunt."
      tlrobinson on HN

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