Friend Hunt

Friend Hunt

Get desktop notifications when your friends comment on PH

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foo
Maker
Hi there! There are many insightful people on PH, who you want to read content from, disregarding which product this is about. Sadly, you will miss those insights most of the time because you just don't look at every single product detail page. Friend Hunt was made to allow you to receive (deactivable) desktop notifications when those people comment, and list your recent notifications in the extension. You're now sure you won't miss the latest insights about product design. Or you may just be warned when your friends join a discussion in order to chat with them :) Hope you will find it useful!
Alain Lagrecque
@oelmekki Great to see this go live! Olivier was kind of enough to let me test this out over the last few days and so far it works really well :)
Ben Tossell
@oelmekki this is awesome. I checked it out the other day :) It's something we have discussed before in-house with the team...
foo
Maker
@alangarrec Thanks Alan ;) Glad you like it!
Mark Lombardi-Nelson
@oelmekki Coming through clutch again connecting people! Looking forward to using this my friend!
foo
Maker
@bentossell Actually, this is something I had in mind after PH team asked us for feedback on MakerHunt :) Figured I will make it as an experiment, I can provide usage rates in a while if you want to figure out if it's worth building as a core feature ;)
foo
Maker
@bentossell @rrhoover @jsneedles Ok, I figured a way to add a follow button on each user in the user lists page (followers / followings). It will require a server side app restart, so I'll wait tomorrow to do it, when there will be less traffic (plus, the extension update needs time to propagate anyway).
Jeff Needles
@oelmekki Yaaaay! 👏
foo
Maker
@jsneedles @bentossell @rrhoover Ok, it's ready! http://www.awesomescreenshot.com... It will be available in version 1.3 of the extension. As usual, it can take between 3 and 12 hours to auto update. If you want to update it manually (and instantly) instead, you can go to chrome://extensions, enter developer mode and click "update extensions now": http://www.awesomescreenshot.com...
Ben Tossell
@oelmekki so coool
David Diamond
@bentossell @oelmekki Feature requests in a matter of hours, THIS is customer service, everybody take note
foo
Maker
@david_diam That's the cool thing with brand new projects, they're quick to be changed ;)
David Diamond
Very nice, the social interaction between people you follow is definitely something that is lacking right now in PH, but they're working on it with the new home page etc etc.
foo
Maker
@david_diam Thanks David! Well, have a glimpse of the future right now ;)
Ryan Hoover
@david_diam we're working on social annotations -- showing which of your friends have upvoted or commented on something on the homepage -- in addition to curating content through your social connections. Perhaps we'll add an "upvote by your friends recently" section on the site. 😊
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