I've been building mentions.us[1] - it sends you alerts when your keywords are mentioned on Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky, LinkedIn and a few other places. For anyone who uses F5Bot, it's similar but with some extra data sources and a Slack integration.
It's been a fun project. Dealing with the scale of Reddit (~300 posts/second) creates some interesting technical challenges. It's also let me polish up my frontend development skills.
I don't think it will ever be a money spinner - it has ~70 folks using it buy they're all on the free tier. It's felt really good to build something useful, though.
It's been a fun project. Dealing with the scale of Reddit (~300 posts/second) creates some interesting technical challenges. It's also let me polish up my frontend development skills.
I don't think it will ever be a money spinner - it has ~70 folks using it buy they're all on the free tier. It's felt really good to build something useful, though.
[1]: https://mentions.us