recon.io
Web and SaaS
brand monitoring
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
5 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 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
Simple and well designed
From 3 comments
I love the simplicity of it. Don't be compelled to succumb to feature creep. There is already plenty to make people pay five bucks or more a week for this. The worth to movie,…
kmfrk on HNSigned up with one of my brands. First of all, I have to say great design! The sign up process was easy and getting started by adding a campaign was simple. I can't comment yet…
Axsuul on HNInteresting twist. Excellent execution. Great MVP.
irrationalfab on HN
Sign-up and setup are easy
From 1 comment
Signed up with one of my brands. First of all, I have to say great design! The sign up process was easy and getting started by adding a campaign was simple. I can't comment yet…
Axsuul on HN
Objections
Already many similar competitors exist
From 2 comments
How is this new? Similar services have been around for years already.
Avalaxy on HNBut that too already exists... I wanted to built exactly this ~6 months ago, but I didn't because there were already so many competitors back then.
Avalaxy on HN
Sentiment scoring is basic bag-of-words, not real sentiment analysis
From 2 comments
AFAIK that is an emoticon based thing, not real sentiment analysis.
abhaga on HNThis is the same response that several business development people I know would give. "NLP" is treated as a black box that turns words into useful output, hooray! It's kind of…
Cyranix on HN
Demo page too heavy and has CSS scrollbar bug
From 1 comment
I clicked on the demo and then on the positive tweets and the page that opened was just too huge, add pagination or date grouping or something. My firefox exploded. Also 2…
ddorian43 on HN
Requests
Add pagination to tweet lists
From 1 comment
I clicked on the demo and then on the positive tweets and the page that opened was just too huge, add pagination or date grouping or something. My firefox exploded. Also 2…
ddorian43 on HN
Add mobile notifications
From 1 comment
I love the simplicity of it. Don't be compelled to succumb to feature creep. There is already plenty to make people pay five bucks or more a week for this. The worth to movie,…
kmfrk on HN
Support languages other than English
From 1 comment
Very cool, and great design! Seems you filter out tweets that are not in english? Is that provided by the Twitter API as well?
sgdesign on HN
Questions
How is sentiment determined?
From 2 comments
How are you determining if a tweet is positive, negative, or neutral?
optimus on HNWhat sentiment analysis API do you use?
instakill on HN
Does it fetch every tweet or filter by keyword?
From 1 comment
I clicked on the demo and then on the positive tweets and the page that opened was just too huge, add pagination or date grouping or something. My firefox exploded. Also 2…
ddorian43 on HN
Alternatives named
Google Alerts
From 1 comment
This doesn't just alert you anytime someone mentions your brand (like a Google alerts style service might) - this analyses tweets to identify mentions that you might want to act…
illdave on HN
Buffer
From 1 comment
Just because a service exists does not mean that someone else shouldn't launch something better. I love the simplicity of the service (reminds me of buffer that does one thing…
adambenayoun on HN