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Thanks Josh. If you don't mind sharing, how was your approach different? Maybe there is a hybrid idea in there somewhere that makes better sense that I haven't

by rkalla 15y ago

Thanks Josh. If you don't mind sharing, how was your approach different? Maybe there is a hybrid idea in there somewhere that makes better sense that I haven't thought of. What I currently have on the books is to allow following of individuals (e.g. "Every time tbob posts something, let me know!") as well as following New submissions that meet a certain threshold. I know I don't spend enough time ranking new stories, if I could set a base threshold like "New story with at least 5 votes" I would probably participate more. So I figured I would add something like that.

joshmanders 15y ago
Basically the idea behind what I was gonna do was a user can subscribe to certain keywords. The system would than keep track of the /new page and when a new post was made with that keyword, for example: "Apple", it would round it up, and on the next batch of alerts sent out, it'd put that one in the list for that user to be notified of. Had a bunch of other ideas for it too, a long with watching what x user submitted, and even the ability to be notified of "Show HN" and "Ask HN" posts.
- rkalla 15y ago
  Ahh nice, really good ideas. I agree the following notifications are all handy, didn't think about Shown/Ask HN posts, that's a good one. As for keywords, that didn't dawn on me either, another good one. With all these notification settings I can see that a "digest" style email once or twice a day might be the way to go to avoid Google banning me for outbound mail and annoying subscribers.
  - joshmanders 15y ago
    Yep, that's a good idea. I've also thought about even allowing users to subscribe to domains. Want to keep an eye on new TechCrunch articles posted? Subscribe to techcrunch.com and that will also be put into your notifications. Best way to handle all this in my opinion would be user accounts, and I know you probably had the same thing in mind when I started mine. No accounts, just put an email in, and a keyword and let them input as many as they wanted.
    - rkalla 15y ago
      Yea exactly right, I didn't want to go down that every-notification path because it would make everything more complicated to use. Also, another user in this thread made me aware of http://notifo.com/ http://notifo.com/ which I think does the every-notify already. I really just wanted to help out HN users specifically, not really a startup I had in mind. So I'll keep the features paired down to services you good folks :)
      - joshmanders 15y ago
        If I remember correctly, notifo.com is shutting down.

by rkalla 15y ago

joshmanders 15y ago

Basically the idea behind what I was gonna do was a user can subscribe to certain keywords. The system would than keep track of the /new page and when a new post was made with that keyword, for example: "Apple", it would round it up, and on the next batch of alerts sent out, it'd put that one in the list for that user to be notified of. Had a bunch of other ideas for it too, a long with watching what x user submitted, and even the ability to be notified of "Show HN" and "Ask HN" posts.

rkalla 15y ago
Ahh nice, really good ideas. I agree the following notifications are all handy, didn't think about Shown/Ask HN posts, that's a good one. As for keywords, that didn't dawn on me either, another good one. With all these notification settings I can see that a "digest" style email once or twice a day might be the way to go to avoid Google banning me for outbound mail and annoying subscribers.
- joshmanders 15y ago
  Yep, that's a good idea. I've also thought about even allowing users to subscribe to domains. Want to keep an eye on new TechCrunch articles posted? Subscribe to techcrunch.com and that will also be put into your notifications. Best way to handle all this in my opinion would be user accounts, and I know you probably had the same thing in mind when I started mine. No accounts, just put an email in, and a keyword and let them input as many as they wanted.
  - rkalla 15y ago
    Yea exactly right, I didn't want to go down that every-notification path because it would make everything more complicated to use. Also, another user in this thread made me aware of http://notifo.com/ http://notifo.com/ which I think does the every-notify already. I really just wanted to help out HN users specifically, not really a startup I had in mind. So I'll keep the features paired down to services you good folks :)
    - joshmanders 15y ago
      If I remember correctly, notifo.com is shutting down.