JamesGreene

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by JamesGreene 6y ago
It's always crazy what others can find that you might have skipped or overlooked. That's what I love about SHOW HN! Everytime I show a community or ask for feedback from a customer, things are brought up I would have not thought a
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by JamesGreene 6y ago
At the moment, my costs are extremely cheap because of a number of factors and building it as a MVP. As it grows in size and features, I plan on raising the price ( current customers are grandfathered in ) and going after larger customers.
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by JamesGreene 6y ago
Thanks!
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by JamesGreene 6y ago
Hey everyone! I submitted Brandchirps 7 months ago to SHOW HN, but didn't provide a usable way for you to try the product out ( I only had a paid sign up at that time ). My bad, I didn't read the rules entirely. That caused some i
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Show HN: I built a simple, reliable, and affordable brand monitoring service(brandchirps.com)
16 points by JamesGreene 6y ago|6 comments
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by JamesGreene 7y ago
I will add this to your credit. I totally understand the mentally behind this. I just do not agree with it is all. Also, I had the wrong idea for what SHOWHN was. That is totally on me. I misunderstand what SHOWHN was used for and it's
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by JamesGreene 7y ago
Results will come down to the term you pick and the negatives you bundle with that term. We also offer a filtering option so that if you do still get a bunch of data you do not want to see, you can filter in live time for results you do wan
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by JamesGreene 7y ago
With the way web hosting servers are set up, and specific companies that sell this hosting, bandwidth for crawling/scraping is basically $0 at most popular companies.
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by JamesGreene 7y ago
A lot of it is because I have been involved in prior projects that involve scraping for the past decade. I have built up a lot of code, skill, API access, libraries, and thoughts on crawling and scraping different websites. Also, this won&#
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by JamesGreene 7y ago
I know a lot of people are asking for this, but it would literally fill up this whole page listing all the URLs. Best way I can describe it is "publicly allowable URLs on the web" which would include blogs, forums, social networks
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by JamesGreene 7y ago
I have a background in scraping from prior projects over the last decade. Bandwidth is not a concern for projects like this at a lot of hosting/VPS providers.
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by JamesGreene 7y ago
I wanted a simple and easy social media listening tool that was cheaper than Brand24, Brandmentions, and Awario.. but scanned more sources than TalkWalker and Google Alerts. It became very convenient to find discussions about my brand, my c
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Brandchirps – Simple Brand Monitoring(brandchirps.com)
121 points by JamesGreene 7y ago|85 comments