Little Birdie
Productivity
brand mention alerts
SHOW HN2017
132points
31comments
#309of 2,242 in 2017
Top 14%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Pricing: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful service for tracking HN mentions
From 2 comments
This looks nice ! i was missing such thing to search for hacker news mentions of our company.
marcinkuzminski on HNAnother vote for HN watcher. Great little service.
nodesocket on HN
Objections
Site lacks a contact email and looks shady
From 1 comment
can you put at least a contact email on that page? looks shady although very useful service (using it already). What are your future plans for it?
ruslan_talpa on HN
Requests
Filter by source such as excluding Reddit
From 1 comment
Would be great if we could select source (eg. not have Reddit)
rrggrr on HN
Notify on front page content matches and vote thresholds
From 2 comments
Free product idea: Same general concept but applied to the content of sites that make the front page. In your Bitcoin example, one would be notified if the displayed content of…
koolba on HNAnother suggestion: Send me the posts in the front page that have more than 100 (or any amount) votes. Or maybe a daily message of yesterdays front page. Thanks!
guillegette on HN
Questions
How matching works internally
From 1 comment
Cool. Is there a blog post somewhere that shows how it works internally? I'm curious if there's some formal named entity recognition, or more basic string matching. Would it work…
tyingq on HN
Alternatives named
Zapier
From 1 comment
Do not wanna be that guy, but you can do that with Zapier and way more https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-your-company-name-mentioned-hacker-news/ We…
LeonidBugaev on HN
HNWatcher
From 1 comment
Have been using https://www.hnwatcher.com/ for more than 3 years. Love it.
nickstinemates on HN
F5Bot
From 1 comment
F5Bot[1] is a free alternative that sends an email instead. [1] https://f5bot.com
fridaa on HN
Mention
From 1 comment
Mention (https://web.mention.com/) is also another social mention tracker. I use it for an open source project and would recommend it.
ngokevin on HN
Notify.ly
From 1 comment
There's also https://notify.ly/ which includes "dozens of sources, like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Reddit, Blogs, News, Medium & Product Hunt."
tlrobinson on HN