I've been using Hacker News alert for a while for my blog, so I figured I'd build out the Product Hunt ecosystem with the same feature set. Right now, it only supports text notifications for domains mentioned on the front page, but if there's interest, I'm up for adding term-based alerts and support for mentions in the comments.
In terms of the actual product, I tried to keep it really simple. The styles are clean and familiar (h/t to the @rrhoover and the other PH builders), there's no backend, and the notify job just runs as a scheduled task on Heroku, which I can update with a git push. It's all open source and on Github here: github.com/jessepollak/phalert.
@jessepollak you're the man, Jesse. I've received several emails from founders worried their product will be "hunted" before they're ready. @eriktorenberg and I try reaching out to every creator as soon as their product is posted but we don't always catch everyone.
Also, HN Notify is awesome. I've been using it for my own blog as well.
@danlev Speed, really. It's valuable to know quickly when your domain goes up on a site like Product Hunt and things that go to my email often don't get attention for hours.
@ak310i all the data is stored in Firebase (https://www.firebase.com/) and I rest my entire reputation on not doing anything malicious with your numbers :)
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