Tweetspiration
Productivity
idea generation
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
7 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 4 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun, creative and simple idea
From 4 comments
Just remember the wise words of Henry Ford, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". Nice website and idea!
lalos on HNI like this because its creative, but was relatively easy to implement. It didn't need a million hours of coding, just a text search for keywords (I'm oversimplifying a bit…
SurfScore on HNThis is really neat! Great job!
mediagearbox on HNGreat idea. It would be nice to vote on some of the ideas and then filter the most voted...
xcubic on HN
Objections
Breaks Twitter display requirements by not using t.co link replacements
From 2 comments
Hey, just wanted to let you know you're breaking the twitter display requirements (https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-requirements) by not swapping out the t.co links with…
phildeschaine on HNThanks for telling me, I'll change that as soon as I can. And I seem to violate the "Actions" and "Branding" requirements as well...
jellyksong on HN
Timestamps shown in UTC and a JavaScript date bug showed NaN in Firefox
From 3 comments
Check the timestamps, they are in UTC, you better change them according to user's time zone
petethepig on HNNice idea. In the display, it shows "undefined NaN, NaN:aN PM". Probably a JS bug of some sort.
snomad on HNSame. Happens in Firefox but not Chrome.
justin_ on HN
Filters are lost on show more, and duplicate retweets clutter results
From 2 comments
Very cool idea. Problem: When I choose a filter, and then click "show me more", it deletes the filter. Thus, I can only get one page of results when I use a filter.
_dark_matter_ on HNThere's a lot of duplicate tweets and retweets of the original. Filter out the duplicates.
mofle on HN
Requests
Vote on ideas and filter by popularity
From 2 comments
Great idea. It would be nice to vote on some of the ideas and then filter the most voted...
xcubic on HNMaybe a way to filter by popularity too?
xcubic on HN
Add more trigger phrases like 'somebody should' and 'there has to be a better way'
From 3 comments
You should search for 'somebody should' in addition to 'someone should'.
edwardy20 on HNAdd to your list: ought to, needs to, I wish someone would, etc...quickly gets out of hand.
hammock on HNA lot of fun, even if most the ideas are nonsense or impossible. If you were to build this out further, I'd add more phrases like "There has to be a better way" (i.e.…
RKoutnik on HN
Filter out duplicate tweets and troll tweets
From 2 comments
There's a lot of duplicate tweets and retweets of the original. Filter out the duplicates.
mofle on HNSomeone should make sure that troll tweets are removed :D
kvprashant on HN
Alternatives named
twtspire
From 1 comment
I did something very similar to this a while back[1]. I also wrote a blog post about it with code here…
kwellman on HN
The Internet Wishlist
From 1 comment
There is already a similar app called http://theinternetwishlist.com/ by some female developer, Amrit Richmond.
ceekays on HN
Somebody Make This subreddit
From 1 comment
Similar, a subreddit called "somebody make this" http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis
efferifick on HN
Ortiel's Game Idea Generator
From 1 comment
Reminds me of "Ortiel's Game Idea Generator": http://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen
Sunlis on HN