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asdev
on April 8, 2021
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Show HN: A Twitter crawler for app ideas
What's the tech stack behind it? Just curious, it takes me days/weeks to get any ideas out due to tech choice paralysis
carmen_sandiego
on April 8, 2021
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Looks like Nuxt/Vue sitting on S3 with CloudFront as CDN. Presumably with some script on the backend to update the list of Tweets on S3.
/vaguely informed guessing
mulhoon
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Yup, It's one simple lambda function that reads the JSON file from S3, searches twitter for new tweets since the latest, appends new ones and writes back to S3. Cron'd every minute.
tracyhenry
on April 9, 2021
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This is awesome! What is the strategy to identify the idea tweets? It looks like some string matching, but I'm not sure.
mulhoon
on April 10, 2021
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Yes, nothing too special. There are 6 or 7 string matches e.g. "I need an app that" (minus retweets). But also retrieving referenced tweets.
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