PMAlerts
Productivity
social media monitoring alerts
SHOW HN2020
261points
107comments
#174of 3,028 in 2020
Top 6%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
28 positive, 58 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 9 critical, out of 102 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Design: 9 for, 2 againstIdea: 5 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstPricing: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Onboarding lets you see results before signing up
From 2 comments
Wow, this is really cool! I especially love how you can see results before signing up!
_hoysala_ on HNI love the fact the you've spent time focusing on onboarding. Most SaaS companies onboarding workflow these days is: - Describe what they're about - Ask for a sign-up before you…
greatsaas12 on HN
Clean UI and pricing model
From 2 comments
Awesome! I'm digging this. I also like how the features are tiered. You might want to make a chart showing what features are under what tier, but it's not overly confusing.
hmhrex on HNReally well done, slick onboarding, nice and simple UI, pricing page makes sense. Good work!
dmje on HN
Objections
Results only appear for Twitter during onboarding; other platforms take about 10 minutes
From 2 comments
Yeah - the onboarding flow (insta-results) only supports Twitter. Other platforms are polled run on a recurring basis and take ~10 minutes to show results, so when you create an…
fstopmick on HNAck! 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…
fstopmick on HN
Mobile header takes up too much screen
From 2 comments
The header of your website is sticky and takes up half the height of my screen.
bzb6 on HNQuick feedback, on mobile the header takes up about half of the viewport
corytheboyd on HN
Verification emails land in spam
From 1 comment
This looks super cool, I just signed up :) FYI, the verification email landed in my spam folder.
jakelazaroff on HN
Requests
Language and geography filtering
From 2 comments
Hey Mick, really great tool and super useful, here are my bits of feedback: 1: When you customize what websites you want to listen to, you should also be able to customize what…
jamyot on HNNice tool, just in time I sought an alternative to Google Alerts, because they filter out most stuff and are biased towards bigger/news portals. For now something is not quite…
rathel on HN
Discord mention alerts
From 1 comment
Nice work! I'd love something that alerted me to mentions in Discord servers. Not sure if that's doable without having a bot in every server.. but I'd pay for that.
makeee on HN
Built-in sentiment analysis
From 1 comment
Anyway to plug in sentiment analysis ? I would love for you to run this through IBM Watson or something so I can see if people are saying positive things about my brand
offtop5 on HN
Questions
How data is collected from Facebook, LinkedIn and GitHub
From 3 comments
How does it monitor results on Facebook? AFAIK the api is closed down for this - it's possible to get content only for a single authorized user.
tasubotadas on HNI'm floored with this app. Well done!!! If you don't mind me asking...how did you manage to scrape linkedin?
ryanr23 on HNHey, welcome to the club. I'm working on Syften.com. I'm focused on helping startups engage in conversations, so I try to send the notification within one minute. Here for…
akfaew on HN
Whether scraping violates platform terms of service
From 1 comment
Are you using public/legit APIs for all these services? Seems like you might be at risk for TOS violation for at least a couple.
mobileexpert on HN
Alternatives named
F5Bot
From 2 comments
When trying to set up an Hourly alert on a free account it says "Please _register_ your account to ...". Apparently, it's a $10/mo feature, so you may want to reword the message…
huhtenberg on HNNice work! Definitely a more complete complement to f5bot
swlkr on HN
Syften
From 1 comment
Hey, welcome to the club. I'm working on Syften.com. I'm focused on helping startups engage in conversations, so I try to send the notification within one minute. Here for…
akfaew on HN
Brand24
From 1 comment
There's https://brand24.com/ that might do something similar
slykar on HN
Sprinklr
From 1 comment
It's like https://www.sprinklr.com but 1,000-4,000x cheaper (seriously). Love the homepage. EDIT: Question, I just tried the demo out on some very popular terms (e.g. "google",…
alberth on HN
Fraidycat
From 1 comment
If, like me, you clicked this expecting to find a tool that would aggregate posts from social media for their own consumption, not as a business intelligence tool, let me…
fiatjaf on HN