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by kevmo314 571 days ago
That tool itself might be worth publishing. I've noticed some cofounders (Supabase's kiwicopple comes to mind) that are very on top of HN comments and I am not sure if they're literally reading all the HN comments or doing that in some automated, "notify me when someone talks about Supabase" kind of way. Could be very valuable to notify when even a related discussion happens!
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kiwicopple 571 days ago
> I am not sure if they're literally reading all the HN comments or doing that in some automated

i use f5bot[0] and have notifications set up for "supabase". it helps that supabase is a unique word so I don't get many false-positives.

[0] https://f5bot.com/

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paradite 570 days ago
Hey. I actually just built a dashboard and filter for f5bot hits. Would love to know your thoughts and if you think it is useful!

https://tracker.16x.engineer/

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throwup238 571 days ago
The script is a few hundred lines mostly dealing with the Discord API and Discourse scraping, written entirely by GPT4 so anyone can do it easily. If anyone wants to take the idea and run with it, all the power to them!

HN is easier since you can just use the HN Firebase API. I think people like kiwicopple just use basic string matching, don’t even need LLMs. I only use it because I need to match against my feature set instead of a simple string.

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rovr138 571 days ago
‘Brand monitoring’ is definitely a thing and there are platforms for it.

You could even start very basic with Google alerts for example.

Still up for new things. Looks like a fun project.

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