My weekend project

Productivity

social network settings manager

SHOW HN2012

52points
26comments
#458of 1,677 in 2012
Top 28%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 3 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Execution: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful and a good idea

    From 3 comments
    • I think it's useful - all of these sites fall into the social networking space, but they all have different ways of changing these things (and every site is changing them, at…
      dmils4 on HN
    • pretty useful tool, I like the idea and implementation a lot! Weird behavior I found on mac os x/chrome 17: the arrows inside the squares dont do anything (not sure they're…
      czzarr on HN
    • Wow pretty slick. Add more options to intuitively control all the FB privacy settings (I only see a few basics covered here) and I think this can really gain some traction.
      ryen on HN
  • Clean UI and slick implementation

    From 3 comments
    • I like the UI but "Tool to manage" is bit far fetching for displaying links.
      tommi on HN
    • Wow pretty slick. Add more options to intuitively control all the FB privacy settings (I only see a few basics covered here) and I think this can really gain some traction.
      ryen on HN
    • pretty useful tool, I like the idea and implementation a lot! Weird behavior I found on mac os x/chrome 17: the arrows inside the squares dont do anything (not sure they're…
      czzarr on HN

Objections

  • Name and 'tool to manage' overstates what is mainly displaying links

    From 1 comment
    • I like the UI but "Tool to manage" is bit far fetching for displaying links.
      tommi on HN
  • Layout and browser bugs in early version, some since fixed

    From 3 comments
    • Invalid option / site selection ends up with 'undefined in undefined' http://i.imgur.com/1INkZ.png I did it just to see if Pinterest had a 'change design' option.
      bobzimuta on HN
    • My experience: 1) I click on "change profile picture" 2) I hover the options - that breaks the layout 3) I choose "change bio" 4) Im back at "change profile picture"
      icode on HN
    • pretty useful tool, I like the idea and implementation a lot! Weird behavior I found on mac os x/chrome 17: the arrows inside the squares dont do anything (not sure they're…
      czzarr on HN
  • UI is somewhat confusing

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool, but the UI is a tad confusing. Perhaps make Pick to choose a little darker.
      nyellin on HN

Requests

  • Cover more Facebook privacy settings

    From 1 comment
    • Wow pretty slick. Add more options to intuitively control all the FB privacy settings (I only see a few basics covered here) and I think this can really gain some traction.
      ryen on HN
  • Use social network APIs to update settings

    From 1 comment
    • I think it's useful - all of these sites fall into the social networking space, but they all have different ways of changing these things (and every site is changing them, at…
      dmils4 on HN
  • Add permalinks to setting combinations

    From 1 comment
    • It would be nice if these combinations had permalinks so they were bookmarkable. This way, if the service providers' change their underlying URLs, this site's permalinks could…
      pixelcort on HN

Questions

  • What is the back-end?

    From 1 comment

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