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Assume You're Going to Lose(jonathancai.com)
2 points by jonathancai 5y ago|0 comments
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Assume You're Going to Win(jonathancai.com)
1 points by jonathancai 5y ago|0 comments
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Take Burnham’s Test to See If You’re a Progressive(wmbriggs.com)
5 points by jonathancai 5y ago|4 comments
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Theory of Change(aaronsw.com)
3 points by jonathancai 5y ago|0 comments
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by jonathancai 5y ago
I hear your concern, and we had a similar thought when preparing to post on HN. We made sure to display women and poc on the front page, but I admit, we can and will do a better job of highlighting diversity. Even if the industry is current
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by jonathancai 5y ago
It’s completely custom and in-house. u/iMuzz is just a unicorn designer/engineer. Not sure how else to put it.
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by jonathancai 5y ago
We use daily cron jobs that fetch from various RSS urls for blogs, and use the Twitter API. We also have data contractors that do some manual work to aggregate the content.
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Our service is not entirely scalable yet, as there is still quite a bit of manual work being done behind the curtain. But the other larger concern is that many large accounts don’t necessarily post much original content. Or rather noisy con
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Oh this is interesting, although I’m not sure how much our current audience would rather see push notifs or texts for the more long form content alerts we mainly have right now
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Who wouldn’t?
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Are you suggesting that we’d inevitably place ads in our emails alerts?
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Yeah this is an awesome suggestion. It can be pretty easy to predict who someone would enjoy reading if they follow related people within their domain.
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Thanks - will add them to the queue of people to consider indexing
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Again, like stated in my other comments, we initially started out with these people because they were the people we mainly read, but we plan on expanding outside of the bubble. Let me flip it back on you - which types of people would you wa
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Yep, we do need to improve our onboarding flow a bit. We plan to include that Twitter followers list integration, and also suggest you people based on your interests. Thanks for the feedback.
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Who are the two people if you don't mind me asking?
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by jonathancai 5y ago
> Like will this be useful for someone who is following thought leaders in MMA fighting, Pornstars, DIY Guns and Drugs? We haven't quite been considering the latter folk for obvious reasons, but we have been pondering the general qu
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Yep. We've been meaning to change that for a while, thanks for reminding us.
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by jonathancai 5y ago
We are definitely looking to expand beyond the tech/silicon valley scene. We only started in this space because it's the kind of stuff we read, but we're looking into which spaces make the most sense to scale into, and we ind
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Show HN: Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people(alias.co)
153 points by jonathancai 5y ago|86 comments
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by jonathancai 5y ago
Probably like a lot of you on HN, in my downtime, I closely follow people that I think are high-signal in their various domains (science, computers, startups, longevity, philosophy, cryptocurrencies, etc). Once I find someone, I consume all
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Ask HN: Do you have a personal website?
17 points by jonathancai 6y ago|36 comments