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Besides that I love concept of RSS, so wanted to play with it :)
It's super cool and I recommend it to everyone. I feel like I'm treasure hunting every time I go for a walk now :)
It's tool to help find resources related to subject of your interest.
If you read some interesting article and would love to explore this subject (to write article about it or because you're just curious) you paste it to ScanSpider and it will scan Reddit and HackerNews, find discussions about it and extract webpages mentioned in these discussions to read more.
What do you think about this idea? I thought it could be great tool for journalists to collect information about given subject and context in which people are talking about it.
Do you see any other groups that could use something like this?
Three months ago I submitted it to HN as a bookmarking tool with feature of finding online discussions for bookmarked items. It was on a HN homepage for a while, I got some feedback, but at the end people didn't use it. Neither did I, as I prefer saving articles to my Pocket account.
I decided to rewrite it just to be a simple tool. You connect it with your Pocket account and any time you add a link to Pocket, it tries to find discussions for it (on HN and Reddit). If it finds any, it sends them to your Pocket account with "Discussions" tag.
Let me know what do you think about it.
If you're interested here is my first Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16984532
Fetching new discussions after initial scan is in my todo list.
I have it on my todo list, and it could probably be some kind of premium option, I haven't decided yet.