Product Hunt Alert

Get a text when your domain is mentioned on Product Hunt

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Get a text when your domain is mentioned on Product Hunt

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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.

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

@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.

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12yr ago

Backchannel

@jessepollak @rrhoover +1 this is great!

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12yr ago

Pivot

@jessepollak Love it! Good work, Jesse :) Does it work for UK numbers at all?

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12yr ago

Lighthouse 1 on 1 meeting software

@rrhoover @jessepollak Can you use the HN alert for your domain or just your handle on HackerNews?

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12yr ago

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Maker

@riaface it should - are you trying with the country code? can you post an example number?

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12yr ago

Swan Bitcoin

Thanks! @rrhoover - Any thought about a stream for newly launched products? As opposed to products that have just a pre-launch landing page?

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12yr ago

Product Hunt

@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. :)

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12yr ago

Swan Bitcoin

@rrhoover fantastic

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12yr ago

@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.

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12yr ago

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Maker

@nikitakorotaev $50? EDIT: lol

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12yr ago

@jessepollak Deal! You have your exit :P

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12yr ago

JournoConnect

Since Product Hunt Alert is dead, I think it's fair for me to point you to a replacement, https://syften.com/ - enjoy!

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6yr ago

Dododex

Just curious, why text? I'd much prefer email, personally.

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12yr ago

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Maker

@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.

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12yr ago

Cucumbertown

@jessepollak Text works for only US users right? I am in Bangalore :-(

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12yr ago

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Maker

@cherianthomas it should work internationally. is it not validating? can you share an example number that I can test with?

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12yr ago

Cucumbertown

@jessepollak ooh, I thought without the international code in the phone area (+__) it was just for US audience. Let me try it out.

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12yr ago

@rrhoover any plans for an opt-in list for people to let PH know they dont want to be featured yet?

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11yr ago

Product Hunt

@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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11yr ago

@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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11yr ago

The Friend You Never Had

Promise you won't get hacked by some college kids and lose all our numbers?

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12yr ago

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