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Ask HN: Please review my web app

Find interesting tweeters to follow by asking friends with http://www.bettermylist.com/ The app allows you to create a page where your friends can add their suggestions. You can share the link to the resultant page in various ways. You can create a list page for a topic such as "programmers in New York" and ask friends to help update it Please let me know what you guys think

jonny_eh 16y ago
I'm a bit confused about what it does. Will it spam my friends on twitter? Due to this uncertainty, I'm not about to enter my twitter credentials. Just seems too risky. "In the next page you will be able to share it with your friends on Twitter, Facebook etc" What is "it"? What is being shared?
- combiclickwise 16y ago
  it wont spam... it creates a page for your friends to add their recommendations. it just posts a link to the list page you have just created saying.. "I am looking for tweeters to follow for the topic X. please contribute" along with a link to the page. it posts into your twitter timeline and not to anyone else directly. if you want to word it yourself, you can post it by unchecking the option to post automatically. I guess this communication is not clear. I will work on it. Thanks for bringing this to light. Please do try it. You can even try it without logging in.
- combiclickwise 16y ago
  I have updated the app to clear this confusion. Thanks again
  - rabidonrails 16y ago
    You need to update that sentence...define "it".
gentschev 16y ago
Personally, I'd be more inclined to just email my friends and ask them. I feel like I already have too many online services, pages, and who knows what to manage, and it's not apparent to me what added value a page would have for this. A simple process to create a page probably has potential for a bunch of applications, but I don't think improving your Twitter list is much of a burning need for anyone.
- combiclickwise 16y ago
  Thanks for your feedback. email does work. >>and it's not apparent to me what added value a page would have for this. the need I imagine is for groups and serious list building. suppose you want to build a list of media people for your company so everyone can use them, this would be a way to consolidate all of them. >>A simple process to create a page probably has potential for a bunch of applications, but I don't think improving your Twitter list is much of a burning need for anyone. I agree. one of the other applications is books, music even. I am on my way creating an instance for each actually. Anyways, Thanks a lot for the comment.

jonny_eh 16y ago

I'm a bit confused about what it does. Will it spam my friends on twitter? Due to this uncertainty, I'm not about to enter my twitter credentials. Just seems too risky. "In the next page you will be able to share it with your friends on Twitter, Facebook etc" What is "it"? What is being shared?

combiclickwise 16y ago
it wont spam... it creates a page for your friends to add their recommendations. it just posts a link to the list page you have just created saying.. "I am looking for tweeters to follow for the topic X. please contribute" along with a link to the page. it posts into your twitter timeline and not to anyone else directly. if you want to word it yourself, you can post it by unchecking the option to post automatically. I guess this communication is not clear. I will work on it. Thanks for bringing this to light. Please do try it. You can even try it without logging in.
combiclickwise 16y ago
I have updated the app to clear this confusion. Thanks again
- rabidonrails 16y ago
  You need to update that sentence...define "it".

gentschev 16y ago

Personally, I'd be more inclined to just email my friends and ask them. I feel like I already have too many online services, pages, and who knows what to manage, and it's not apparent to me what added value a page would have for this. A simple process to create a page probably has potential for a bunch of applications, but I don't think improving your Twitter list is much of a burning need for anyone.

combiclickwise 16y ago
Thanks for your feedback. email does work. >>and it's not apparent to me what added value a page would have for this. the need I imagine is for groups and serious list building. suppose you want to build a list of media people for your company so everyone can use them, this would be a way to consolidate all of them. >>A simple process to create a page probably has potential for a bunch of applications, but I don't think improving your Twitter list is much of a burning need for anyone. I agree. one of the other applications is books, music even. I am on my way creating an instance for each actually. Anyways, Thanks a lot for the comment.