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Probably like a lot of you on HN, in my downtime, I closely follow people that I think are high-signal in their various domains (science, computers, startups, longevity, philosophy, cryptocurrencies, etc). Once I find someone, I consume all their content obsessively, reading all their books, tweets, essays, and watch their videos/podcasts. But I noticed a few problems:
1. A person's content is scattered around the web on multiple platforms.
2. Twitter is too fresh and noisy. It's hard to find someone's most seminal work across the years.
3. It's unusually difficult to be told/notified every time they release something new. People don't always like to self-advertise all their podcast appearances, or panels/interviews they've done. So we built alias to address these issues - we've indexed all the content on some of the best creators in many fields, for you to subscribe to, which means you get an email whenever they release content. For info on how this is built - Some of the indexing is done by cron jobs that fetch from RSS feeds, utilizes the Twitter API, and scrapes the web, but also some of it is manual, performed data contractors. We'd love to hear your feedback and also - whose profile would you like to see on the site next? |