Hacker News

Top stories

Live mirror
30 storiesupdated just nowView source snapshot
  1. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels(cloudflare.com ↗)
    145comments
  2. Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug(ledger.com ↗)
    13comments
  3. North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes(science.org ↗)
    90comments
  4. Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash(cactuscompute.com ↗)
    31comments
  5. US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report(cnn.com ↗)
    35comments
  6. OpenJev(openjev.com ↗)
    217comments
  7. Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?(ax-check.com ↗)
    1comments
  8. C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour(sandordargo.com ↗)
    122comments
  9. Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0(x.ai ↗)
    3comments
  10. I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture(overreacted.io ↗)
    124comments
  11. A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos(hacktron.ai ↗)
    184comments
  12. Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich(quantamagazine.org ↗)
    6comments
  13. I don't like passkeys(hawksley.dev ↗)
    581comments
  14. Jemalloc 5.4.0(github.com/jemalloc ↗)
    76comments
  15. NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September(nats.aero ↗)
    24comments
  16. Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing(scry.io ↗)
    5comments
  17. The scourge of x86 emulation(fex-emu.com ↗)
    71comments
  18. Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring(ycombinator.com ↗)
    discuss
  19. Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks(systemd.io ↗)
    8comments
  20. The Shadows Lurking in the Equations – Underwater Islands(gods.art ↗)
    12comments
  21. GrassLobster: AI Agentic Generation of Parametric Geometry Workflows(miro.vision ↗)
    4comments
  22. BeanShell3 in Development(beanshell.github.io ↗)
    15comments
  23. Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him(nytimes.com ↗)
    167comments
  24. Replacing Pull Requests with Delta(zed.dev ↗)
    75comments
  25. AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds(science.org ↗)
    83comments
  26. Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion(lawandcrime.com ↗)
    4comments
  27. An empirical study of harness design for coding agents(arxiv.org ↗)
    43comments
  28. Build Faster Feedback Loops Using Qualitative User Research(nseldeib.com ↗)
    2comments
  29. Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek(linguisticdiscovery.com ↗)
    62comments
  30. Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'(techcrunch.com ↗)
    672comments

Scalable proactive customer communication that doesn't suck

44 pointsby 15y agointercomapp.com
9 comments
15y agoHN ↗

Looks interesting Des.

How are the users' social media details accessed? Do they opt-in and supply Twitter/LinkedIn/FB credentials themselves or are they acquired by other means?

15y agoHN ↗

We're using a third-party service to find the social data from their e-mail address.

15y agoHN ↗

Seems quite useful. Though I was wondering;

How do you measure the "relation" one has with a user? I.e. going from red to green on the meter - what are the factors?

Does your service also provide, built-in, the ability for our users to give us feedback directly at our own site?

Lastly, if you can, would you mind sharing with us the name of the 3rd party service you're referring to (to find social data from email addresses)?

Anyways, something like this might very well be what we've been looking for. Or rather, we're looking for a method/service/platform to enable us to effectivly communicate with our customers (not necesserily in terms of "effective medium").

15y agoHN ↗

Hi jsean, David from Intercom here.

I can't talk about the "relation" metric as I'm not as familiar with this part of the product as I am with others, but hopefully I can help you with some of your other questions.

Currently with the widget the user can read new messages from you, write new messages to you, and reply to either type of message.

Right now the behaviour is that, if a user doesn't have any unread messages, clicking on the inbox link brings them to a new message form. There's also a "New" button in the inbox (seen here: http://intercomapp.com/images/marketing/shots/5.jpg ) that brings them to the same form.

If you have an Exceptional account (getexceptional.com) you can see the widget in action.

We're using Qwerly at the moment for social data.

If you have any further questions, let me know here or fire us a tweet @intercomapp.

David

15y agoHN ↗

A good feature would be to add alerts relating to the brand being mentioned, eg intercom. This would show stated feedback. I'm guessing some app creators have thousands of users.

Great job guys!

15y agoHN ↗

This looks really good. I can actually see myself using this when the time is right. Lovely looking interface.

I don't like the name very much though - "Intercom". It's neither descriptive nor sounds very aesthetic, and I'm sure it's not going to be exactly straightforward competing on Google for that keyword.

15y agoHN ↗

It is possible to get an invite? We would like to try it. This is exactly what we are doing by ourself when supporting our customers by combining Rapportive, Twitter, Google Spreadsheets, and magic.