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

[edgarasben]

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:)

[dankwizard]

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

[edgarasben]

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

[tomaslau]

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!

[edgarasben]

Thanks! Will do that next!

[slater]

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

[edgarasben]

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!

[mtmail]

Took me a while to realize there are multiple tables.

[lqcfcjx]

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

[edgarasben]

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