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A source is one place to listen with one term. Add a few narrow sources rather than one broad one, and you will mute less later.
What each channel expects
GitHub
- You give
- owner/repo, or a term to search across public repositories
- You get
- Issues, pull request discussion, and comments where people hit something real in code
Usually the highest signal source. Bots and your own team's posts are filtered out.
X
- You give
- The term people use for your product
- You get
- Posts from users, not just your own account
Your own handle and your team's handles are treated as official and left out of the user feed.
- You give
- A company or product term
- You get
- Public posts, mostly buying signals and team announcements
LinkedIn is the most restrictive platform. Coverage is thinner than the others.
Open web
- You give
- A term, optionally scoped to a site
- You get
- Dev.to, Hashnode, personal blogs, changelogs, and forum threads
Backed by a crawler so you are not limited to platforms with an API.
Choosing a term
- Use the name developers type: the package, the CLI, the service.
- Skip generic words that also mean something else. You will drown in unrelated posts.
- To watch competitors, use the dedicated Competitor Signal area instead of a source. See the Competitor Signal guide.
EarShots also filters what it finds. Posts from your own accounts, reposts of your announcements, and off-topic matches on a common word are dropped before anything reaches your feed.
Handles on X and LinkedIn
Each X and LinkedIn channel takes two lists. Handles to always listen for: posts from those accounts, or that tag them, are picked up even when they do not name your product. Handles to ignore: posts from those accounts never enter your workspace, which is where your own team accounts go. If a handle is on both lists, it is ignored.
Use @handles or profile links, separated by commas. Up to 25 per list.
Refresh and manual pulls
Sources refresh automatically on a schedule set by your plan. Each connected source card shows its last refresh and a Pull now button when you want fresh results immediately. Sync on Insights pulls every source and then sorts everything new.