Rumoro

The Google Alerts alternative for Reddit, X and Hacker News

Google Alerts sends an email when Google Search indexes a matching page, and offers no API. Rumoro reads Reddit, X, Hacker News and 13 more sources directly, for $5 a keyword a month plus $0.008 per matched post.

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Listening for “beacon”187 posts today

Beacon's new event limits are going to triple our bill. Alternatives?
A customer considering leaving
86
How to use an avalanche beacon before your first backcountry trip
Avalanche gear
dropped
Beacon vs Mixpanel for a 3-person SaaS: what we learned in six months
Worth a reply from the team
89
Restored lighthouse beacon relit after 40 years
A lighthouse
dropped
Looking for product analytics that doesn't need a data team. Anyone using Beacon?
Evaluating a tool like yours
92

beacon

Buying intent
Evaluating a tool like yours
92
Comparison
Worth a reply from the team
89
Churn risk
A customer considering leaving
86
Bug report
A bug in your SDK
90

4 worth answering · 183 set aside

# salesSlack

Priya 10:14

Anyone seeing analytics questions this week?

Rumoro app 10:17

Buying intent on LinkedIn

Looking for product analytics that doesn't need a data team. Anyone using Beacon?

Priyanka Das · Head of Growth · relevance 92

Open threadMark done

The difference

Google Alerts and Rumoro compared

Google Alerts watches Google's index of the web. Rumoro reads the platforms where people talk about your product and hands each post worth answering to your team, your code or your agent.

QuestionGoogle Alerts

Rumoro

Where you listenGoogle AlertsPages Google Search indexes: news, blogs, the web, video, books, discussions or finance.Rumoro16 sources read directly, from Reddit, X and LinkedIn to Hacker News, GitHub and app reviews.

Where it goesGoogle AlertsEmail.RumoroSlack, Telegram, email, signed webhooks or your AI agent.

API, MCP and SDKsGoogle AlertsNone in Google's documentation.RumoroREST API, an MCP server with 55 tools, SDKs and a CLI on every account.

PriceGoogle AlertsFree.Rumoro$5 per keyword each month and $0.008 per matched post, paid from credit you top up.

RelevanceGoogle Alerts"Only the best results" or "all results".RumoroEach post scored 0–100 against your company, with sentiment and intent.

How oftenGoogle AlertsAs it happens, at most once a day or at most once a week.RumoroAs soon as a post is scored, or as a daily or weekly digest.

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Google Alerts checked on 8 October 2026 against its options and Google’s help page. Spot something out of date? Write to us and we’ll correct it.

Why switch

What changes when you move

Your alert terms stay the same. What reaches you, where it lands and who can act on it changes.

The conversations, not just pages

Posts on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Hacker News and GitHub, read from the platforms themselves rather than from a search index.

An API for your mentions

Search, filter and export mentions over REST, or let Claude, Cursor or Codex work with them through 55 MCP tools.

Alerts where your team works

Slack, Telegram or a signed webhook as each post is scored, filtered by relevance and intent.

Only what's about you

Each post is scored against your company, so a lighthouse or a concert venue with your name never reaches your team.

Price

What it costs

Google Alerts is free. An example month on Rumoro for your product and two competitors: 3 keywords and 1,000 matched posts.

Google Alerts: free

New Google Search results for your terms.
By email, as they happen or as a daily or weekly roundup.
No documented API to read them from your code.

Rumoro: $23.00 a month

3 keywords × $5 = $15.00
1,000 matched posts × $0.008 = $8.00
Every alert channel, the API and your agent included.

You can keep Google Alerts for press pages and let Rumoro cover the conversations. Work out your own month →

Switching

Moving from Google Alerts

Each alert becomes a Rumoro keyword, its minus words become excluded words, and its emails become alerts in the place your team already reads.

01
Describe what you sell
One sentence about your product. Every mention is scored against it.
02
Add your alert terms as keywords
The words you follow in Google Alerts become keywords, and the words you exclude become excluded words, on any of the 16 sources.
03
Pick where alerts go
Slack, Telegram, email or a webhook, the moment a post is scored or bundled into one email a day.
04
Start with recent posts
Each new keyword fetches recent matches from the past month on most sources.

Your Google Alert

beacon -lighthouse -avalanche

sources: automatichow often: once a day

The same alert in Rumoro

Keyword: beacon
Excluded words: lighthouseavalanche
Sources: Reddit, X, Hacker News and 13 more
Alert: # growth, buying intent and questions, relevance 60+

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Questions about Google Alerts and Rumoro

What is a good Google Alerts alternative?

Rumoro, when the mentions you care about happen in conversations rather than on web pages. It reads Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, GitHub and 11 more sources directly, scores each post against your company and sends the ones worth answering to Slack, Telegram, a webhook or your AI agent.

Does Google Alerts have an API?

Google's help pages describe alerts sent by email and document no API for creating or reading them. Rumoro's REST API, MCP server, SDKs and CLI come with every account, so your code or agent can search, filter and export mentions.

Does Google Alerts cover social media?

It covers what shows up in Google Search, so a post reaches you only once Google has indexed it. Rumoro collects straight from GitHub, Hacker News and Reddit, from X, LinkedIn and Bluesky, and from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

Is Google Alerts free?

Yes. It costs nothing to use. Rumoro costs $5 per keyword a month plus $0.008 per matched post, from a prepaid balance, and every workspace starts with $5.80 of credit.

Follow the conversations, not just the pages

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