Typefully Profiles
Productivity
social publishing
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
0 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Docs: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished flow and clean page design.
From 2 comments
This is a terribly disconnected pitch… At least for me. I instantly clicked because I’m literally building a replacement to do exactly this for my personal website. So far so…
techdragon on HNGlad to know it’s high on the list. I’d personally be happy paying a small surcharge for it. I’ve looked at making whatever I end up building to solve this need for myself into…
techdragon on HN
Thread unrolling into proper blog posts is useful.
From 1 comment
That's true. The core difference here is that Typefully will unroll your threads and you can set a title, so in RSS readers they will show as proper blog posts.
linuz90 on HN
Objections
Unclear how the product works and no info on custom domains.
From 1 comment
This is a terribly disconnected pitch… At least for me. I instantly clicked because I’m literally building a replacement to do exactly this for my personal website. So far so…
techdragon on HN
Requested permissions look excessive for a profile feature.
From 2 comments
This application will be able to: ``` See accounts you follow, mute, and block. Follow and unfollow accounts for you. Update your profile and account settings. Post and delete…
JonathanBeuys on HNHi Jonathan, Typefully is first and foremost a thread-writing app meant for publishing, this is why we need all those permissions. Profiles could use a subset of permissions, but…
frankdilo on HN
Profile mirrors Twitter rather than being a standalone blog from Twitter content.
From 1 comment
At first I thought this would be a service which takes your Twitter profile and turns it into a website with a CMS backend, which sounds like a great idea for anyone who wants to…
apatters on HN
Requests
Custom domain support for Profiles.
From 2 comments
This is a terribly disconnected pitch… At least for me. I instantly clicked because I’m literally building a replacement to do exactly this for my personal website. So far so…
techdragon on HNGlad to know it’s high on the list. I’d personally be happy paying a small surcharge for it. I’ve looked at making whatever I end up building to solve this need for myself into…
techdragon on HN
Export content to other platforms.
From 1 comment
Hello, I love that idea, but at this time we want to make the product focused on the experience of Twitter creators, so we feel like it makes sense you make you publish on…
linuz90 on HN
Unrolling other users' threads into blogs.
From 1 comment
Can I turn others tweets into a blog? Especially one that unspools Twitters Threads so each blogpost contains the entire train of thought? For some reason lots of people would…
tomjen3 on HN
Questions
How is this different from Thread Reader?
From 1 comment
how is this different from Thread Reader? https://threadreaderapp.com
ushakov on HN
Are thread size limits enforced?
From 1 comment
Cool. What about thread size limitations? Also, it would be nice if the tweets were trimmed. I just pasted a bunch into your editor and they had an extra newline so all the…
weeksie on HN
Alternatives named
Nitter RSS feeds
From 2 comments
nitter.net also provides RSS feeds for every Twitter user: https://nitter.net/username/rss
zaik on HNI get my twitter feeds from nitter. Works pretty good. Eg., https://nitter.net/jack/rss
i67vw3 on HN
Thread Reader App
From 1 comment
how is this different from Thread Reader? https://threadreaderapp.com
ushakov on HN