Hacker News Reader

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Thank you!!! Will address each of these, hopefully by the weekend depending on dayjob demands. Don't hesitate to let me know of any other friction points - I'm aiming for frictionless

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Twitter results use their official API, otherwise I crackle sounds can't he- crackle what?.. call disconnected

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Twitter is legit, otherwise I plead the 5th. I do outsource this risk (and pay for that), so stability shouldn't be an issue unless there's a broad and deep crackdown on everyone who scrapes, which I think is unlikely given recent sentiment around the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180559

But it is a risk. Serpapi.com is helping me a lot with that - give them a tinker!

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Thanks for the heads up, others have said the same. Someone shared some deliverability tips with me that I'll be implementing asap.

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

On it, thank you lprubin.

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

If you're curious about how PMAlerts addresses this and other Google Alerts shortcomings, I wrote a small piece about that here: https://www.karma.fm/p/0SZfbtW/9-reasons-why-you-should-stop...

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

I LOVE this thinking. I have a small write-up about "how I'm using PMAlerts to drive growth for PMAlerts" here:

https://www.karma.fm/p/BcMEfxQ/frequently-asked-questions

But it's not presented as a formalized case study and doesn't provide the value you're proposing (to me or others). I'll do it!

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Super appreciate that sentiment. That's what I'm going for - 1) build something valuable, default to freemium 2) pave a clear path to free for those in need 3) have faith in voluntary reciprocation of value

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Thanks for the love!

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Oh I don't want to pretend to be original here. mention, brand24, awario, and lots of other "social listening" solutions exist. I'm just particularly interested in building SaaS products on top of a business model that's designed to redistribute wealth from megacorps to people-in-need, so I don't mind playing copycat until I can fund true originality :p

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Ack! The onboarding flow only works with Twitter right now, but once you create an alert all platforms will be polled (though some will be polled via search engines until I can fund native search, like LinkedIn). I should add a disclaimer to the onboarding UI...

site:TLD filtering is sort of in place right now but it's not obvious... you can select the "Custom" platform and then use that site:tld syntax (or any syntax supported by Google). Lmk if you run into any issues there, that's a relatively new feature.

Language / geography filtering is on the backlog! hopefully to be funded by paying customers.

Thanks for trying it out!

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Gah, the mobile UX is pretty horrible right now. I'll prioritize it, thank you bzb6

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Thanks Chris! My email is m@pmalerts.com if you hit any snags or want to share more about your particular needs/goals. Happy to chat.

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

I very much appreciate the candid feedback, cmg. I'll update the copy now.

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Thank you!! That's all attributable to early adopter feedback, but I'll take the credit :)

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Yeah, I'm super excited to build this out.

I'm admittedly overeager to build and am not very good at building financially sustainable projects, so I told myself I'd fund this feature with revenue from paying customers. ($0MRR right now)

In the meantime, you can use webhooks to push results into your own sentiment analysis flow. That's supported (and free).

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

I'm super on the fence about my pricing page, to be honest. Would you rather have just a standard three-tier Personal / Startup / Enterprise plan (3 choices), instead of granular control that confronts you with a $numberOfFeatures choices?

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

It's always seemed strange to me that the normal SaaS flow forces users to blindly commit... I want you to fall in love without any coercion. It's more romantic that way

mickdaisyon Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media

Absolutely, shooting an email over now!

If anyone here on HN wants it for free, just let me know via m@pmalerts.com and I'll give you an early adopter subscription (full product, free for however long it's around).

mickdaisyon SaaS Needs a Single Point of Purchase

Do you have a salesforce?

mickdaisyon Show HN: How to Take Smart Notes on Karma

I've been trying to figure out how to accelerate my personal self-education with technology, and this represents my latest attempt at solving that problem.

Two questions for you:

1) What are your initial impressions? 2) What would make you fall in love with something like this?

mickdaisyon How to Get Upvoted on Hacker News

Relevant - Effects of title length on upvotes gained by a [Reddit] post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/durndj/eff...

mickdaisyon Show HN: Block Brain – a rather tricky puzzle game

Odd - searching for "Block Brain" on the iOS App Store doesn't show me your game within the first 5 clusters. I wonder if there's any ASO you can do for that, or if it's just not indexed yet?

mickdaisyon Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit

Thanks for the heads up; prioritizing mobile ux now.

mickdaisyon Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit

Here's the source of that line of code:

https://www.karma.fm/p/hJibw7y/eric-migicovsky---how-to-talk...

The way I presented it is certainly weird, but Eric's articulation resonated with me. He also describes cohort retention iirc.

mickdaisyon Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit

Thanks so much for taking a look! I'm happy it resonated :)

mickdaisyon Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit

Thank you for introducing me to David Allen.

mickdaisyon Biology Is Eating the World

I'd be really disappointed if your opinion is unpopular. I completely agree and find it depressing to see how our culture admires Gates as an idol of altruism. He's had impact, sure, in the same way that someone with an infinite river has the ability to extinguish forest fires but extinguishes a few brush fires instead... just enough to outpace his competitors and lock in the perception of being most benevolent.

Worst form of social darwinism EVER.

mickdaisyon Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit

I don't disagree with anything you've said... I'm just a lousy communicator. I should have been clearer: I don't think self-actualizing is selfish, in fact I think for most people, self-actualization requires you to be unselfish. Maybe I can revise my statement to clarify:

"Sticking that at the end of the main() method was my way of saying that I won't feel self-actualized until I've had some impact on the bigger picture."