I've been using Hacker News alert for a while for my blog, so I figured I'd build out the Product Hunt ecosystem with the same feature set. Right now, it only supports text notifications for domains mentioned on the front page, but if there's interest, I'm up for adding term-based alerts and support for mentions in the comments.
In terms of the actual product, I tried to keep it really simple. The styles are clean and familiar (h/t to the @rrhoover and the other PH builders), there's no backend, and the notify job just runs as a scheduled task on Heroku, which I can update with a git push. It's all open source and on Github here: github.com/jessepollak/phalert.
@jessepollak you're the man, Jesse. I've received several emails from founders worried their product will be "hunted" before they're ready. @eriktorenberg and I try reaching out to every creator as soon as their product is posted but we don't always catch everyone.
Also, HN Notify is awesome. I've been using it for my own blog as well.
@danlev Speed, really. It's valuable to know quickly when your domain goes up on a site like Product Hunt and things that go to my email often don't get attention for hours.
@ak310i all the data is stored in Firebase (https://www.firebase.com/) and I rest my entire reputation on not doing anything malicious with your numbers :)
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@jessepollak i signed up in good faith, but thanks for confirming!
@bswen we're working on a categorizing the three type of product submission: pre-launch, launch, and new updates. @Jonnotie has a super sexy redesign in the works. :)
@jessepollak I bet you've collected a list of super exciting products that everyone are eager to play with. If this would have been done by a VC, that would be ingenious move to source products ahead of anybody else.
@siddygups we're trying to find the right balance between consumers and makers. We don't want to restrict people from sharing new things they find but we also recognize the frustration in getting hunted before the product is "ready." We're exploring a few solutions but if you have any suggestions here, please let me know!
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@rrhoover hmm i see the dilemma. This is not well thought out but one possibility is a form to submit sites to a "blacklisted sites" list where sites can only be added or removed with an email address from that domain name?
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