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Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

92 pointsby ohsikalmost 5 years ago

23 comments

orthecreedencealmost 5 years ago
Some feedback: the signup process is difficult. I signed up, 32-char password, but it doesn&#x27;t have a special character, so I had to regen. Ok fine, whatever. Then a captcha. At least it&#x27;s not one of the ones that shows a new picture each time you click so you&#x27;re endlessly clicking buses or manhole covers for 45 seconds. But I get captcha, whatever.<p>Ok, so I sign up, and now I have to confirm my email. But...it&#x27;s not a link I can just click, it&#x27;s a code. So I switch back to the postbag tab, log in again, and it asks me for the code. I switch to email tab, copy the code, switch back to the postbag tab, put in the code. All a bit obstuse, but ok whatever...I&#x27;m done, right?<p>Nope, now I have to log in <i>again</i> after my account is verified.<p>That said, this looks really interesting and I&#x27;m excited to try it out. Thanks for posting!
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gnicholasalmost 5 years ago
I did a search on the word dyslexia (my product is heavily used by people with dyslexia), and most of the top results were based on articles that did not use that word at all. They were more likely to be about autism, ADHD, or deafness. In fact, out of the 234 results, the word &quot;dyslexia&quot; only appeared 4 times.<p>Unless there is something magic going on that I don&#x27;t understand, this seems like a pretty critical failing. I could do a google news search for &quot;dyslexia&quot; and I would likely get more relevant results (albeit without the authors&#x27; email addresses nicely formatted — I&#x27;d have to hunt that down on Twitter).
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skilledalmost 5 years ago
Aren&#x27;t services like this one of the reasons that publishers gets dozens of spam emails every day?<p>E.g. &quot;I read your article [link] and thought this [link] would be a great addition!&quot;<p>I still get around 100 emails every month to a 6 year old address that I used for publishing purposes.
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dawnerdalmost 5 years ago
How do I block my sites from appearing on your lists? I’m already spamming a lot with product and movie pitches and last thing I want is even more.
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victor9000almost 5 years ago
But I don&#x27;t wanna sign up. This is competing with web search no? Because that&#x27;s the UX I have in mind when I&#x27;m looking for new content.
gnicholasalmost 5 years ago
The buttons at the top are not super obvious, but there are no tooltips to tell you what they are. So I clicked on several and got a sense of what most do, but I didn&#x27;t want to click the last one (which appears to be log out). Please offer tooltips! (And consider icons that are easier to discern.)
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chrismorganalmost 5 years ago
I tried two queries: “audiobook” and “rust programming language”.<p>“audiobook” produced passable results.<p>“rust programming language” produced 100% garbage: in its 167 Tier1 matches (I didn’t look further) not one was in any way related to Rust or even to programming; and only a few were related to languages. From the titles, most matches were probably derived from the word “rust”, though not many past the first dozen or so were <i>about</i> rust in any way—it was more commonly “yeah, I can imagine that rust might be mentioned once in that article”. The rest I have <i>no</i> idea where they came from, I can’t see how any of the keywords would have matched.
skmurphyalmost 5 years ago
No pricing for a service that cannot remain free. This never ends well.
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noizejoyalmost 5 years ago
The discovery part might be interesting to compare to something like SparkToro [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparktoro.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparktoro.com&#x2F;</a>
Neffalmost 5 years ago
Man.. From the title I was hoping this would be a way to find people doing long form writing on niche topics.<p>For the site - Your primary color&#x2F;white combo used for your CTAs and links doesn&#x27;t meet WCAG contrast ratios. You are running the risk of hindering users by reducing their ability to read text.
nyxtomalmost 5 years ago
Great idea! Would love to see a pricing model implemented as this is something I can see paying for.
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samcrawfordalmost 5 years ago
I like the concept, and signed up to give it a try. I searched for &quot;running route builder&quot;, and after about 15 minutes it just showed &quot;Error&quot;. I&#x27;m keen to actually give it a try though if this can be corrected!
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instaheatalmost 5 years ago
My friend is an Investigative Journalist, I&#x27;ll share the link with him! Great idea.
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vishwa306almost 5 years ago
Great job with Postbag. However, the signup process can be vastly simplified.<p>Coming to the lists - it&#x27;s a good start. I got a few decent leads for my space. What would be great is info on their social handles, blogs, LinkedIn etc.
guiportoalmost 5 years ago
I&#x27;ve got a &quot;Can not load stored data from the server.&quot; message when I click to open the generated list.<p>my user id: 67a13535-58a9-4d4a-b8bf-3dcd91b46e8f<p>I couldn&#x27;t find any support channel in the app itself.
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Spacemoltealmost 5 years ago
It&#x27;s not clear what the icons in the top does? Tooltips or simply buttons with text when the screen is wide enough to support it would be great.
sanjasarinalmost 5 years ago
Thanks for all the support during Postbag beta launch and all of your suggestions! Interest was a lot greater than expected and we got over 800 users in 48 hours which was amazing. We described our experience at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;2BgxFC0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;2BgxFC0</a>
newsbinatoralmost 5 years ago
&gt; Your password must contain at least one character out of: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ &amp; [ ] . * |
apankratalmost 5 years ago
OK, gave it a try.<p>1. Sign-up process has too many pointless hurdles.<p>If you have restrictions on the password format, mention them upfront rather than revealing them one at a time after each failed attempt. Better yet, just don&#x27;t enforce any password restriction at all, until they decide to become a paying customer or there&#x27;s something else on a record worthy of protection.<p>Error reporting on the sign-up form is badly positioned. As others already pointed out, it&#x27;s just not visible because it ends up being above the page edge.<p>Once signed up, the page shows the &quot;log in&quot; link. Click on that, enter email, password, enter - it asks for confirmation, BUT again asks for email address. Ok, retyped that, copied the confirmation code, enter - Yay, confirmed - now log in afresh. This is as brain-dead flow as it gets. Instead, when trying to log into an unconfirmed account it should just verify the password and ask for a confirmation code. Enter that - get in.<p>This is however peanuts compared to...<p>2. The quality of the results.<p>Here are first 10 items for a &quot;file backups&quot; query, the News section:<p><pre><code> Kanbox Looks To Become The Internet File System And Storage ... Another 74,000 file first-time unemployment claims in Illinois Forever 21 officially files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Another 108K Marylanders file for unemployment as virus spreads Intelsat files for bankruptcy protection Model Out of Work? Here&#x27;s How to File for Unemployment Basketball referees, Section V file grievance over work conditions * Western Digital Proposes Zonefs File-System For Linux 5.6 How to delete your Dropbox account in 5 simple steps Apple Card Now Supports Exporting Transactions in OFX File Format </code></pre> 7 are <i>completely</i> unrelated, 2 are just keyword match and 1 is roughly in the right area, but still not useful.<p>The Blog&#x2F;Web section is similarly way off:<p><pre><code> Coppermine: File Move Tutorial How to generate EBCIDC file include header and ... It looks like we don&#x27;t support this file format. How to repair your photo? How to Make a File Upload Form in WordPress? How To Copy a File to the User&#x27;s Current Profile using Powershell File Folder technique cards Video tutorial How to Import the SWMM 5 Report File as a Layer in infoSWMM How to Merge Mails to PDF File Best Free Online File Storage for Sharing Files on Blogs and Websites Monitoring Folders Files With SCOM OpsMgr How To Manage Devices </code></pre> Not to point out the obvious, but this is not very good at all :-(<p>On the plus side, the JournoRequests part looks interesting, but I can&#x27;t readily judge if the results are relevant and actionable. That said, I don&#x27;t think Pitchbox had this back when we (fairly unsuccessfully) used it few years ago.
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boffinismalmost 5 years ago
What&#x27;s a &#x27;webmaster&#x27; these days?
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epsalmost 5 years ago
ohsik, how does PostBag compare to PitchBox, which has been doing literally the exact same thing for a while now?
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k__almost 5 years ago
How can I sign up as blogger?
l1ghthousealmost 5 years ago
How can I delete my account?
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