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michal_aon Show HN: ShopSleuth – Get notified when an item is ready to buy

Don't price comparison sites already do this, while pulling in prices from all available shops? How is this better?

michal_aon Unable to email anyone from primary domain name; thanks Google Mail and G Suite

Great writeup. I'm running an app that monitors social news sites like HN and sends the matching posts to the user. Most of my emails are marked as malicious, and my G Suite account was even blocked once.

michal_aon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)

I wrote yet another Hacker News notifier that can be used to receive emails with relevant job posts from these threads.

So for example you'd use these filters to look for remote Golang jobs:

  site:ycombinator.com title:`Ask HN: Who is hiring?` remote go
  site:ycombinator.com title:`Ask HN: Who is hiring?` remote golang

Give it a go: https://syften.com/hackernews

michal_aon Do people still use Mention tools?

I use my mention tool to monitor mentions of my mention tool. I hope you don't mind, I included your post in my blog: https://medium.com/syften/how-to-monitor-your-competitors-be...

I don't think you should be asking if anyone would use a free account. Ask if anyone would pay.

michal_aon Ask HN: Are available domain names still important when naming a company?

It's easier to remember example.com than example.app, so it matters in contexts where someone has to remember an URL. Imagine nike.get - sounds like a scam. Big serious brands have a .com. And now you have the association: if you have a .com then you're a big serious brand.

> Or prepend "get" or append "app" to the name to obtain the dot com TLD. This is bad advice - always check if the word is trademarked. I learned it the hard way - I was running mentionme.app and mention.com sent me a cease and desist letter, since they own the word "mention".

Similarly Facebook sent a cease and desist letter to openbook.social.

I'm collecting cases like this, as I recently had to go through the rename. If you know more please let me know. I've documented my story here: https://medium.com/syften/you-should-obsess-over-your-produc...

michal_aon Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News

I'm running https://mentionme.app (I guess we're somewhat competing) and when talking with users I learned that there is a common misconception with Google Alerts. I don't think it works how people think it works. It will miss mentions on social news sites, it seems it's more of a trend measuring tool than an alerting tool. Just monitor and post a random string to reddit.com/r/test to see yourself.