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Show HN: I built "Big on X" to spot X's rising stars at any follower level

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5 pointsedgarasben15 comments

Hey all! On X, big stars are easy to spot, but finding awesome smaller accounts isn't. I built Big on X - a talent leaderboard that finds rising stars early. Whether you've got 100 or 1M followers, if you're growing, we'll highlight you. Check it out if you're curious about up-and-coming X accounts:)

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1 - is this scanning every account? i thought X did some fancy stuff where an API hit would only ping a random ~1-5% of the total base. the 100k->1m tier list looks especially wrong

2 - whats time on growth? is it +x% in 24 hours / what time frame?

3 - cool

1 - good question! using public data only for now, so I have to add usernames manually, but I also have an automatic scaling mechanism, where I discover "recommended" usernames for each user.

2 - for now it's daily only, last 24hours. Once I have more data I will display 7 days, 30 days and 365 days switcher.

3 - thnx :D

1. Awesome.

2. I suggest you add a short paragraph or a button to explain the methodology. I see you answered these questions in some comments already, but I'm sure other visitors may have similar questions.

3. Well done!

Thanks! Will do that next!

Two tiny bits of feedback:

- Don't link directly to an account's avatar image. None of them load for me, because of cross-domain blocking (macOS, Firefox)

- Make the tables sortable by clicking on table headers

Thank you for the feedback! Is this specific to your browser? I would like to avoid hosting the images myself, at least for now.

For the sorting, good idea!

Might be UBlock Origin, not sure.

Yeah probably some browser plugin. Referring to external images should be quite common on the web?

Frowned upon, tho ;)

Do you mind testing if it's better now?:)

Works! Now, table sorting... >:]

Took me a while to realize there are multiple tables.

Fixed it! Each group meant to have only top 10 accounts. Will probably add "Show more" button, to reveal more accounts in a group.

this looks interesting. just curious how did you collect this data? i believe it's ridiculously expensive to use X api.

It's public data, so it's quite limited. But even with limited data it's possible to be a little creative:)

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