Rather than polling you can probably just subscribe (via Firebase[1] and the HN API) to changes to the user's profile e.g[2] [1] https://firebase.google.com/do

Rather than polling you can probably just subscribe (via Firebase[1] and the HN API) to changes to the user's profile e.g[2] [1] https://firebase.google.com/docs/libraries#client-sdks https://firebase.google.com/docs/libraries#client-sdks [2] https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/hardwaresofton/about.json?print=pretty https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/hardwaresofton/ab...