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Syften
Company blog · syften.com/blogbusinesswriting
Syften is the company blog at syften.com, writing about business and writing. Since 2019, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “One Comment – $640 ARR Plus”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Syften as a paid service for monitoring keywords and mentions across Reddit, Hacker News and other sites, and as a way to find people to reply to. The linked pages describe that product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Monitor Reddit, X/Twitter, Hacker News, forums, Slack communities, GitHub, podcasts, and blogs for keyword mentions with Slack, email, RSS, or API alerts.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-13
- /2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-12-16
- One Comment – $640 ARR Plus2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-21
- On Writing Well2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-11
What Hacker News says?
Another indie hacker here, to add to OP’s reply, I’ve been using Syften[0] to monitor relevant keywords across various sites to find people my product can be of value to, or I provide answers to their related questions (which can lead them to checking out my profile and then product). I’m building Conjure[1] a habits, behavior and goals platform, so I track everything from ‘habits’/‘productivity’/‘quantified-self’ t…
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on “Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo”Submitted Get Yourself Banned as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI see that your tool is mentioned constantly in online forums: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=site%3Areddit.com+O... - that's 526 results. I suggest keeping an eye on those mentions and reply to any questions someone might have, or clear up any misconceptions. You might think it's silly to interact directly like this for a product priced at $1, but keep in mind Reddit and Hacker News have very good SEO, so…
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on “Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue”Submitted On Writing Well as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote yet another Hacker News notifier that can be used to receive emails with relevant job posts from these threads. So for example you'd use these filters to look for remote Golang jobs: site:ycombinator.com title:`Ask HN: Who is hiring?` remote go site:ycombinator.com title:`Ask HN: Who is hiring?` remote golang Give it a go: https://syften.com/hackernews
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)”Submitted Google Alerts Doesn't Work. Why Did Google Break It? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnother great service for mentions is https://syften.com/ , also supports Twitter but is paid.
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on “Managing my motivation as a solo dev”Submitted How to Do Content Marketing on Social News Sites? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm able to support myself from my online business now, but it took three years of learning and struggle to get here. This was not time wasted, as I grew a lot. I get a compliment from time to time from my users asking if I'm really running my product solo. The tool is https://syften.com and it's a keyword notification service for Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Slack communities, Facebook groups etc. I think th…
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?”Submitted One Comment – $640 ARR Plus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey, welcome to the club. I'm working on Syften.com. I'm focused on helping startups engage in conversations, so I try to send the notification within one minute. Here for example is how I used Syften to grow Syften by an additonal $640 ARR from one Reddit comment: https://syften.com/blog/post/one-comment-640-arr/ . It also has features like being notified when someone replies to you on Hacker News. PS. I'm wonderin…
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on “Show HN: I made an alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media”Submitted A few 80/tips for writing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot exactly the same but Syften ( https://syften.com/ ) can do this kind of 'listening' for social platforms like HN, Reddit, ... . Possibly you could reach out to Michal about extending their ingest with arbitrary/custom websites?
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on “Custom Search Engine Built on Searx”You might find https://syften.com/ interesting. I use it for monitoring Reddit and all kinds of communities for mentions of my name and the titles of my books.
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on “Insanely Fast Whisper: Transcribe 300 minutes of audio in less than 98 seconds”https://syften.com/ searches for comments, but you have to supply a search term (not URL).
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on “Ask HN: Looking for a Tool to Search for Comments”I'm working on https://syften.com - a few of my users switched from Mention.
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on “Ask HN: What is used instead of mention.com nowadays?”Have you tried this one? https://syften.com/?redirect=false#pricing . Seems like it's an option for your use case. You just format the example of a problem as keyword as filter.
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on “Ask HN: Looking for a Tool to Monitor Hacker News”I'm working on a tool like that, feel free to check out https://syften.com .
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on “Ask HN: Getting an email when a HN post mentions a keyword?”You can try https://syften.com , but it's paid.
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on “Ask HN: How to subscribe for specific repeated stories on HN”
