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Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at any follower level
Hey all! On X, big stars are easy to spot, but finding awesome smaller accounts isn't. I built Big on X - a talent leaderboard that finds rising stars early. Whether you've got 100 or 1M followers, if you're growing, we'll highlight you. Check it out if you're curious about up-and-coming X accounts:)
- slater 2y agoTwo tiny bits of feedback: - Don't link directly to an account's avatar image. None of them load for me, because of cross-domain blocking (macOS, Firefox) - Make the tables sortable by clicking on table headers
- mtmail 2y agoTook me a while to realize there are multiple tables.
- edgarasben 2y agoFixed it! Each group meant to have only top 10 accounts. Will probably add "Show more" button, to reveal more accounts in a group.
- edgarasben 2y agoThank you for the feedback! Is this specific to your browser? I would like to avoid hosting the images myself, at least for now. For the sorting, good idea!
- slater 2y agoMight be UBlock Origin, not sure.
- edgarasben 2y agoYeah probably some browser plugin. Referring to external images should be quite common on the web?
- slater 2y agoFrowned upon, tho ;)
- edgarasben 2y agoDo you mind testing if it's better now?:)
- slater 2y agoWorks! Now, table sorting... >:]
- lqcfcjx 2y agothis looks interesting. just curious how did you collect this data? i believe it's ridiculously expensive to use X api.
- edgarasben 2y agoIt's public data, so it's quite limited. But even with limited data it's possible to be a little creative:)
- dankwizard 2y ago1 - is this scanning every account? i thought X did some fancy stuff where an API hit would only ping a random ~1-5% of the total base. the 100k->1m tier list looks especially wrong 2 - whats time on growth? is it +x% in 24 hours / what time frame? 3 - cool
- edgarasben 2y ago1 - good question! using public data only for now, so I have to add usernames manually, but I also have an automatic scaling mechanism, where I discover "recommended" usernames for each user. 2 - for now it's daily only, last 24hours. Once I have more data I will display 7 days, 30 days and 365 days switcher. 3 - thnx :D
- tomaslau 2y ago1. Awesome. 2. I suggest you add a short paragraph or a button to explain the methodology. I see you answered these questions in some comments already, but I'm sure other visitors may have similar questions. 3. Well done!
- edgarasben 2y agoThanks! Will do that next!