🚀 Marketing, Scraping & Serverless: Building Tools to Track Competitors & Keywords! 🛠️ Also, JavaScript Quirks.

I apologize for the lack of updates lately! 

I've decided to keep my extension unlisted for a while to gather more user feedback and refine my marketing strategy. Relying solely on extension web store optimization will not be enough.

For that reason, I have decided to track competitors and their channels, as well as relevant keywords across social networks. One platform has shown significant related activity, but unfortunately, it doesn't support RSS feeds—my preferred method for consuming information. To tackle this, I've built a scraper along with an RSS feed generator. This tool might even evolve into a standalone product in the near future!

In the process, I’ve been exploring new technologies. I’ve started experimenting with Cloudflare serverless workers, which use JavaScript, and their straightforward KV (key-value) datastore. I learned the hard way that JavaScript doesn’t support unsigned 64-bit integers, as they get truncated to 53 bits! If you're curious, try running this line in your JavaScript console:

(10765432100123456789).toString()

I have mixed feelings about surprises like this! ☺

Back to marketing ... RSS alerts are functioning smoothly, but it seems my dedicated social network account has been flagged as probable spam. I'm hoping this is just a temporary issue due to its newness. Stay tuned for more updates!