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There was an alternative called Mention[1] that made the front page[2] of HN a few days ago, I have no idea how it compares in terms of features/quality/etc tho
by kayge 14y ago
There was an alternative called Mention[1] that made the front page[2] of HN a few days ago, I have no idea how it compares in terms of features/quality/etc though:
[1]https://en.mention.net/ https://en.mention.net/
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376180
- easytiger 14y agoand they same to have a native client for win/lin/mac ... which is nice... but wouldnt a web portal be the way to do this
- welcometothesky 14y agoHi, I'm a co-founder at mention. mention goes way beyond what Google Alerts can do. We're real-time, monitor way more sources (Twitter for example). We do have native clients, but we also have a web and mobile version available. We'll soon be available right from your iPad too.
- easytiger 14y agoah cool. I'd put it on my list of platforms then, Windows, Mac, Linux, Web :)
- gwern 14y agoThe pricing of Mention alone torpedoes it as a tool for anyone but a commercial entity: you need to pay them $120 a year to get like more than 5 searches! (5 searches wouldn't even cover my existing Google Alerts for just my family, to say nothing of all the other interesting things I want news of.)
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