More reading for developers, first published on claudegpt.si.
If you went looking for a Feedly API alternative, you probably found the same wall many developers hit: Feedly lists API access in its Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with a sales conversation. For a side project, a team dashboard or a script that posts news to a channel, that…
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FollowThatPage vs Distill comes up when a developer wants to watch a page and has narrowed it to the two free options that feel lightweight. They solve the problem from opposite ends. Follow That Page runs on someone else's server and emails you text diffs. Distill runs mostly in your own browser…
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Most developers find their first Reddit keyword alert tool the same way: someone mentions F5Bot, you add your project's name, and a day later you get an email that someone on Reddit used it. That works until your project shares a name with something else. Name a CLI after a bird, a planet or a…
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How does Dataminr work? From the outside, it is a pipeline with three stages: collect public data at scale, decide which signals describe a real event, then describe and route that event to the people who need it. This explainer walks through those stages using what Dataminr says on its own site…
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The Distill web monitor for Chrome is one of the most installed page watchers around, and for good reason: it is quick to set up and runs fast checks from your own browser. What many users only learn later is how much depends on where each monitor runs. This explainer covers the local and cloud…
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People look for a CrowdTangle alternative for Reddit for two reasons: some want to watch Reddit itself, and some want to ask Reddit what to use now. This post is for the first group. CrowdTangle never covered Reddit; it was built around Meta's platforms and stopped being available on August 14…
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Search for a website change monitor docker image and you land on changedetection.io almost every time. It is the most popular open source option, and its container is easy to start. This guide covers what running it in Docker actually involves, what keeps costing you time after day one, and when a…
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You can track press coverage without Cision by setting up three kinds of AyeWatch monitor, a topic, a page and a social account, and sending each one to the channel where your team already works. It takes an afternoon, needs no sales call and starts at $9 a month. This tutorial is written for the…
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Browse AI vs Apify is a common comparison for developers who need web data without building a scraper from scratch. One is a no-code recorder with a friendly dashboard; the other is a platform full of ready-made scrapers you can call from code. Below is a straight head-to-head, followed by the case…
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If you build developer tools, a lot of your feedback lives on Reddit. Bug reports, "has anyone tried X" threads and comparisons with your competitors show up there before they reach your issue tracker. If you tried Brand24 for this and found it heavy, you are probably after a Brand24 alternative…
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If you want mentions of your product to land in your own database, ticketing system or chat bot, you need a social listening tool with API access, and you need it on a plan you can justify. That second part is where listening tools can get expensive; at Awario, for one, the API sits on the top…
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Brandwatch vs Talkwalker is the comparison most buyers reach once they decide they need enterprise social listening. The two suites overlap a lot, both sell through demos, and neither puts a price on its site. This piece sets them side by side on what each vendor says about itself, then makes the…
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