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Just subscribed to a few of my faves!",{"value":92,"source":81,"evidence":93},"Nice design and execution.",[94,98],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"27923456","apurvak","I really like this website design especially on mobile - how did you make it?",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"27923265","vertoc","Looks amazing, great job!",[103,118,129,144],{"value":104,"source":81,"evidence":105},"Feels like stalking; aggregating creators' content without opt-in raises privacy concerns.",[106,110,114],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"27923493","xena","I have mixed feelings about this as someone that creates a bunch of content across different platforms. I intentionally spread it out across platforms as different platforms have…",{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"27926788","encryptluks2","Seems a bit stalkerish. Why not just use standard tooling and check at healthy levels instead of feeling the need to be notified of everything they do.",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"27926929","notananthem","Stalking, but pretty!",{"value":119,"source":81,"evidence":120},"Biased toward Silicon Valley figures and lacks diversity.",[121,125],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"27924202","clircle","Seems to be heavily biased in favor of silicon valley personalities.",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"27927105","cardamomo","This looks super useful! I was curious who I might be able to follow on Alias, so I checked out the list. I saw that an overwhelming majority of the people are white. I know this…",{"value":130,"source":81,"evidence":131},"Many lesser-known people are missing from the index.",[132,136,140],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"27923955","rahimnathwani","I wanted to follow two people who are not super-famous. They have written blog articles and been interviewed on podcasts. But I could not find them in your search. The folks who…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"27926032","smoldesu","I just looked up 5 of the \"people I care about\", only to find that none of them had entries. They were fairly popular podcasters too, so I guess I don't know what your target is…",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"27928480","0xdeadb00f","\"For your favourite people\" For some of my favourite people. There are many, maybe niche, personalities I can't see listed. I was hoping that I could put anyone's name in there,…",{"value":145,"source":81,"evidence":146},"Name overlaps with Google Alerts, which commenters find noisy.",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"27926484","paxys","Neat, but \"Google Alerts for famous people\" already exists. It is called..Google Alerts. Maybe sell it as \"a better Google Alerts\" or something.",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"27923692","Nowado","How is it different from, well, Google Alerts?",[156,160,170,180],{"value":157,"source":81,"evidence":158},"Opt-in or opt-out for creators.",[159],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},{"value":161,"source":81,"evidence":162},"Import followers from Twitter during onboarding.",[163,167],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"27924264","JoshTriplett","I like the concept. But I found myself thinking \"who that I follow is prominent enough to be listed\". I'd love to say \"this is my Twitter account, tell me who of the people I…",{"id":168,"by":11,"text":169},"27924587","Yep, we do need to improve our onboarding flow a bit. We plan to include that Twitter followers list integration, and also suggest you people based on your interests. 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