Treendly
Web and SaaS
trend discovery
SHOW HN2020
343points
115comments
#111of 3,028 in 2020
Top 4%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 19 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Execution: 0 for, 11 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful service with a good opportunity indicator and data presentation
From 2 comments
Really cool - I'm interested in this. Despite similar services - I like your opportunity indicator. Love the search functionality idea - but hit a bug so it took a couple of…
jefflombardjr on HNSo this is a bit like https://explodingtopics.com but with a different angle to find the categories and trends? I see no "world/global" option, is that on purpose? I do like how…
bastijn on HN
Useful coronavirus trend views
From 1 comment
I liked this for example to watch how people are going crazy due to viral epidemiology https://treendly.com/trend/Healthcare?geo=US
oogetyboogety on HN
Objections
Unicode and special characters (umlauts, Japanese, URL encoding) break searches
From 3 comments
Hi Mike, nice work! I noticed that you have some problems with UTF8 characters like German umlauts. Might want fix that: https://treendly.com/trend/Künstliche-Intelligenz?geo=DE
riedel on HNI tried it out and it doesn't seem to support unicode well. I searched for "学校" (Japanese: gakkou, school) in Japan and the results page was headed with "%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1".…
sdrothrock on HNTried adding a monitor for a trend with two words, got lots of matches for just one of the words that is generic. Tried then again but putting the two words in quotes, expecting…
capableweb on HN
Registration and free-tier limits feel confusing or too strict
From 3 comments
On the website you are showing 7 trends for free. So I created an account in the assumption that I can see more for free. But when I logged in I can only see 6 for free and then…
1337biz on HNI opened the page and tried to register but got "Too many requests" message. Any reason for that? Edit: Also, the website field doesn't accept at least some ccTLD's.
arianestrasse on HNReally cool - I'm interested in this. Despite similar services - I like your opportunity indicator. Love the search functionality idea - but hit a bug so it took a couple of…
jefflombardjr on HN
Results are noisy or inaccurate for some queries
From 2 comments
I tried it out and it doesn't seem to support unicode well. I searched for "学校" (Japanese: gakkou, school) in Japan and the results page was headed with "%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1".…
sdrothrock on HNTried adding a monitor for a trend with two words, got lots of matches for just one of the words that is generic. Tried then again but putting the two words in quotes, expecting…
capableweb on HN
Spline interpolation on graphs is misleading for data
From 1 comment
The interest over time graph uses spline interpolation to connect the datapoints, while that might look prettier than straight lines, it is something that is strongly discouraged…
orbifold on HN
Requests
Support for special characters and non-English languages
From 2 comments
Hi Mike, nice work! I noticed that you have some problems with UTF8 characters like German umlauts. Might want fix that: https://treendly.com/trend/Künstliche-Intelligenz?geo=DE
riedel on HNI tried it out and it doesn't seem to support unicode well. I searched for "学校" (Japanese: gakkou, school) in Japan and the results page was headed with "%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1".…
sdrothrock on HN
Adjustable time range for charts
From 1 comment
The project looks very good. It would be nice a feature to modify the time range, for instance on the Covid-19 trends, Zoom is -50% over the last 30 days. It would be interesting…
marian2js on HN
Add Canada and more regions
From 1 comment
I don’t see Canada on the list which makes me sad eh.
Jemm on HN
Questions
How is it different from Exploding Topics, Glimpse or Google Trends
From 3 comments
Hi Mike, your service and interface remind me Exploding Topics [https://explodingtopics.com/]. Known as Trennd before and launched here:…
seapunk on HNHow is this different from Glimpse https://meetglimpse.com/ ?
personjerry on HNHow is this different from google search trends?
m3kw9 on HN
Where does the data come from and is scraping risky
From 2 comments
Is this based on Google Trends? Where is the data coming from? Interesting project, btw
saturday14 on HNIs the data coming from Google Trends? If so, are you worried they're going to shut down your scraping at some point?
narrator on HN
Alternatives named
Exploding Topics
From 2 comments
Hi Mike, your service and interface remind me Exploding Topics [https://explodingtopics.com/]. Known as Trennd before and launched here:…
seapunk on HNSo this is a bit like https://explodingtopics.com but with a different angle to find the categories and trends? I see no "world/global" option, is that on purpose? I do like how…
bastijn on HN
Glimpse
From 1 comment
How is this different from Glimpse https://meetglimpse.com/ ?
personjerry on HN
Google Trends
From 1 comment
How is this different from google search trends?
m3kw9 on HN
Trennd
From 1 comment
Hi Mike, your service and interface remind me Exploding Topics [https://explodingtopics.com/]. Known as Trennd before and launched here:…
seapunk on HN