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Show HN: Radar – Sort contacts by their activity on social media, email, blogs

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I don't use an iPhone, but on Android it sorts contacts based on how frequently you call them.

That seems like the only logical way, at least for the dialer app. In Gmail for example, I don't need to sort contacts, because my use case is sending an email to a specific person --- I type their name and they pop up (I think Apple mail does this too).

Please don't interpret this as snark or sarcasm, I'm just looking for a use case -- when is this useful? which situations does this improve upon?

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EDIT: i totally missed the "social feed" aspect.

Seems like the best aspect of this is showing social updates from people in your actually contact list -- like a high priority follower list.

I probably follow thousands of people across social media but i really only care about a few dozen people.

A combined feed of their updates is actually valuable to me.

yea these social media sites are great when you're using it live. when you step away, you miss so much through all the noise. for me, to know when certain people have posted last on all these sites... time saver.

I don't understand the rating for this app... someone mind explaining? And sorry it's a little tangent and hardly related to the app, but order-by-activity isn't exactly new or appealing to me. But this being rated 12+ is...weird.

  Rated 12+ for the following:

    Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
    Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
    Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
    Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
    Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
    Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
    Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
    Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes

My bet is they mean "12 years old, or older," but you need to have iTunes installed to view the link telling what the ratings mean.

https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/appRating...

All of these things may emerge from the available subscription services.

Looks like part of the app shows latest social-media activity from contacts, and probably anything that touches those networks gets an automatic 12+.

A free app. Which has access to your contact list and the email conversations, social media and blogs of the friends, family, colleagues and other people on it.

Something tells me this app isn't just going to do what it says it does...

How does the service access all my social media feeds and contact data? What's the security and privacy policies in place? What access does the company have to my data? What are they planning to do with it?

Signed up and now there is no way to delete my account, is this not required by U.S. law?

now this is going to save me a shit ton of time. good stuff.

Anyone know if this is available for android?

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