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by ovi256 5045 days ago
Wow, it's pretty amazing, but you've described one of the use cases for my upcoming webapp: www.alertoid.com

Technically, Alertoid would be an RSS reader that goes beyond the Read/Unread tagging, with the Commented/Comment Approved stages you described. Furthermore, it can be used for inbound marketing: as you monitor the keywords that interest you, you see the blog posts that mention them and can use those as starting points or ideas for your own blog posts, because if bloggers love comments, they love answer posts or reposts even more, and it's another great way to start a conversation and get backlinks.

/shameless plug

Hope my pitch was clear enough, don't hesitate if you have any feedback. If you're interested by Alertoid, email's in my profile, would love to hear from you, even more if you're a marketing/PR professional.

Feedback on SERPIQ: I just signed up, on the confirmation page (http://serpiq.com/users/sign_up) I see "You have signed up successfully. However, your need to confirm your email address." but a signup form is still there, empty, as if nothing worked. That doesn't seem right!

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I'd love to try it, but your launchrock submit is broken.

(Also: http://signup.alertoid.com/ on your HN profile doesn't work.)

Sorry to hear that, but the launchrock widget works for me :( FWIW, I'm on Chrome/Mac OS, how about you ? I also updated the obsolete signup link.

If more people have trouble with launchrock, I'll bring that in house. So much for building on the shoulders of giants :)

oh man I've wanted to build such a webapp for so long. That's awesome, congrats!

I'd love to hear how you're tackling the problem of tracking the actual comments that were left without resorting to a browser plugin in order to pull the details from the actual form on submit. Or maybe I said too much :)

I can't seem to be able to reply to you directly, so email me at admin@serpiq.com and I'll gladly connect with you
Well, I'd love to have you as a beta tester! Haven't got around to tracking comments yet. Looks tricky indeed.