On: Show HN: A Twitter crawler for app ideas

[mulhoon]

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 → mulhoon]

This is awesome! What is the strategy to identify the idea tweets? It looks like some string matching, but I'm not sure.

[mulhoon → tracyhenry]

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.