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Ask HN: Review my Twitter App - Tweakio
- fpotter 17y agoTweakio is about helping individuals and companies/brands embed dynamic content into their Twitter background, viewable whenever someone hits the standard twitter.com/username page. Today I'm releasing a teaser theme called "Friend Tree" which lets you put a tree on the left hand side of your Twitter page and decorate it with photos of friends. Sometime next month I'll launch the rest of the service. It will include themes that change with the time of day, change with the local weather, showcase recent twitpic/yfrog photos, etc. There will be some stuff for businesses/brands, too. Thanks for checking it out HN! Would love to hear any suggestions you might have... EDIT: Here's an example of what it looks like -- http://twitter.com/fpotter http://twitter.com/fpotter
- tdoggette 17y agoYou might benefit from buying tweak.io in addition.
- fpotter 17y agoYep, I might still. .io domains are about $100 USD, though.
- antidaily 17y agoA video or screenshots would be nice.
- slig 17y agoAnd maybe a link to a twitter account that shows how the friends tree looks like.
- fpotter 17y agoYep, those are on the front page now. Don't know why I didn't do that to start with :-) The tree looks like this: http://twitter.com/fpotter http://twitter.com/fpotter
- fpotter 17y agoYou can see what the teaser theme looks like by checking out my Twitter page: http://twitter.com/fpotter http://twitter.com/fpotter
- imp 17y agoIs the snow at the top of the page supposed to fall? By dynamic is it an animated gif, or just dynamic on reload? I kept waiting for the snow to fall.
- fpotter 17y agoI completely forgot about the possibility of animated gifs. I'll look into this. If I do it, I should probably make it optional - some people might hate me for it. :-)
- dryicerx 17y agoSome cosmetics: Possibly move the "Get your friends at tweakio" only shows up correctly without being clipped in a exact resolution, a better option would be to move it to the left side. Another is on the home page, the background doesn't repeat so looks off on screens wider than 1600px.
- fpotter 17y agoThanks for the feedback. I'll play with better positioning for that. I know it looks weird if you have a giant screen. I'll see how big I can make the image w/out bloating the file size too much.
- apsurd 17y agoFWIW, I'm not a big twitter user, I don't use a single twitter "app", but hey this is pretty cool and its extremely digestable. I'd imagine a lot of people would want that cute tree on their page, just depends on how easy it is to get it running. The concept is good though imo, good job! Also the main text on the page is kind of hard to understand. It makes sense now that I saw your example page, but "dynamic twitter theme" didn't really do anything for me immediately. Personally I would put something like: "Finally! Custom twitter backgrounds!" That sounds kind of myspace-y which is a good thing imo because any idiot can use (and understand) myspace. "pimp your twittaaaahh" - ok just kidding about that last one. So overall, your app lends itself to the "show, don't tell" mantra more easily than most.