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Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok
- organicfigs 6y agoI don't have a tiktok nor a twitter, but somehow I sincerely enjoyed consuming this, nice work!
- jkingsman 6y agoNeat idea! Bummed I can't use a scroll wheel; dragging with a mouse to emulate touch is not my favorite thing. Cool overall though
- galuggus 6y agoAdding this feature. This is still a work in progress.
- ALittleLight 6y agoCan the sound selection persist between videos? i.e if I turn it on for one video, I'd expect it would be on for the next video. Great stuff!
- galuggus 6y agoI had to remove this feature to get it to work on safari. Apple hates autoplay sound. (which as a user is overall a good thing)
- rezonant 6y agoAs long as you do it as part of a user gesture it should work. Make sure the actual play() is called from within the context of a touch/mouse event, that should be enough.
- galuggus 6y agoThanks.
- keenmaster 6y agoIt would still be nice if users can enable sound for all videos with one click. Currently you have to enable sound on each individual video.
- galuggus 6y agoAdded this feature you can now use arrow keys or the mouse wheel
- drusepth 6y agoWow, it didn't even occur to me to try dragging with a mouse. I'm on a touchscreen laptop and when touching-and-dragging didn't work (only moved the videos a little bit, but not enough to go to the next one), I just assumed it was mobile-only.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoBuilt by HNer galuggus, who mentioned this deep in another thread. Give him some karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24095821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24095821
- galuggus 6y agoMuch appreciated. I'll be in this thread answering any questions. Bug reports and feedback very welcome. This app was made with help from Tanya of techtwox.com
- ehsankia 6y agoIs there any algorithms involved, or is it just ranked the same for everyone, and ordered by most ranks?
- galuggus 6y agoAt the moment it's just the same for everyone.
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- codetrotter 6y agoWhen you swipe to next video, you have to unmute each time. I know that mobile browsers only allow muted videos to auto play but was wondering if you’ve thought about finding a way to make it so that you only have to unmute the first video. I know that this is possible to do, because for example YouTube is able to do that in mobile browsers. I don’t know how they do it, but for example if you open this link in a mobile browser and unmute it and allow auto play to continue to next video after it then notice that the next video is unmuted as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MW0mDZysxc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MW0mDZysxc I guess it might be that they reuse the same player element that was unmuted or something like that. I think it would be possible to achieve something similar even with multiple player elements by doing something clever.
- inportb 6y agoFails in Firefox 79, works in Chrome 84. https://i.imgur.com/gLMnGrZ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gLMnGrZ.jpg
- shyn3 6y agoIt would be nice if the links are clickable and a randomized order of videos.
- komali2 6y agoDoesn't seem to work at all in Firefox mobile but conceptually sounds fun, best of luck!
- ryanisnan 6y agoFirefox desktop also is completely busted. Would have loved to see it!
- hacker_newz 6y agoNothing is swipeable here.
- keenmaster 6y agoClick and drag
- alanbernstein 6y agoThanks, I never would have tried that...
- galuggus 6y agoThanks for the feedback... Just updated the app so you can now use arrow keys or mousewheel on desktop
- echelon 6y agoReally great work! It looks and feels super polished. How long did this take? What was the most difficult aspect? What do you intend to do next?
- galuggus 6y agoIt didn't take too long once I sat down and worked on it. I had the initial idea about a year ago but didn't coding on it til recently. The hardest part was solving compatibility issues(still a wip) and not overcomplicating things. Next is a product hunt launch tomorrow And starting a kindle recycling non profit rekindlereading.org (very early website)
- llacb47 6y agoThis is truly the most advanced algorithm ever seen ;) https://twiktwok.github.io/firstVids.js
- galuggus 6y agoHahaha
- xparco 6y agoStop hating...
- oefrha 6y agoReminds me of the best no-bullshit algorithm: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. } https://xkcd.com/221/ https://xkcd.com/221/
- codetrotter 6y agoAlso, this one https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
- arendtio 6y agoMy favorite Dilbert of all time ;-)
- tucnak 6y agoHaha very funny, classic xkcd
- homero 6y agoI'd do that too but it would be cached and updated hourly. Why hit the Twitter api on each request?
- benbristow 6y agoYou could set the app up to call the Twitter API but cache the response in memory or something like Redis so you don't need any background jobs/file management etc.
- rosstex 6y agoOP just wanted to advertise his woofer cushion :)
- jenkins6g 6y agoThis is pretty cool, I like the aspect of simply watching videos. I think I made it to the end of videos though, not sure if this was intentional or if you want to continue to paginate videos forever lol. Appreciate your idea and work, keep chugging!
- galuggus 6y agoThanks, your encouragement is appreciated
- lawrenceyan 6y agoDidn't Twitter acquire Vine at some point? Whatever happened with all of that.
- bradgessler 6y agoMicrosoft x TikTok = Bing Bong
- galuggus 6y agoClippy clop
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- somerandomboi 6y agoRead the repository on Github. I like it; keep expanding the source code, this could be the next concept one day!
- blisseyGo 6y agoSlightly related but some Redditor "created a NSFW TikTok clone, with just portait-mode porn gifs, some with sound. (works best on mobile)": https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/enn048/i_created_a_nsfw_tiktok_clone_with_just/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/enn048/i_creat...
- ehsankia 6y agoThese are neat, but in my mind, TikTok is far more about the ForYou algorithm than the fact that it's a scrolling feed of videos. The latter is fairly easy to do, as showcased by this very thread. Any decent engineer can throw together a demo like this fairly easily. TikTok's huge success though seems to be due to how good it is at predicting what people will like, which is something that even Youtube struggles to sometimes. Of course predicting 10s videos is much easier than predicting 5m videos.
- genericacct 6y agoThe algo has been failing pretty bad; "hide videos from this user" does not work anymore, i suspect it can only deal with a limited number of ignores. Last summer I did an experiment, tapping "not interested" on any food-related video (I was on a diet) and yet i kept being shown food videos.
- ehsankia 6y agoThe former issue may be intentional. I've seen many recommendation algos not quite letting users shoot themselves in the foot. It's like how if you subscribe to 1000 channels on Youtube, it'll start only showing you the videos you actually watch instead of all the videos. The latter is strange, but generally for me it has worked pretty well, without even needing to rely too much on "not interested". For example, in March I started playing Animal Crossing, and a week later my feed was 50% ACNH content. Then I stopped playing around May, and a few weeks later, I was quickly down to maybe 1 a day and now I'm at 1 a week maybe. That being said, I like and share videos frequently, so that may be a good signal of what I'm currently interested in to the app.
- jaquers 6y agoPlease bind mousewheel and arrow keys, thanks.
- yuz 6y agoReminds of a similar HN mobile reader with infinite scrolling I did last week. https://yoazmenda.github.io/hn/ https://yoazmenda.github.io/hn/ It tries to extract the main articles image and shows you a cat if it fails
- Scaevolus 6y agoThis really makes you appreciate how much higher quality TikTok videos are than Twitter! (no account/app needed-- https://www.tiktok.com/foryou https://www.tiktok.com/foryou )
- aabbcc1241 6y agoUnfortunately that doesn't work with web archive
- nsomaru 6y agoUnfortunately that makes me download the app. Firefox for iOS
- njsubedi 6y agoFor me it’s only the banner prompt at the bottom of the page.
- morsch 6y agoI just got an endless stream of incredibly boring garbage. Gave the algorithm some feedback to tune it to my interests, but there's nothing there for me. I guess now I know what the fuss is about though.
- thisismyswamp 6y agoYou're an intellectual
- Scaevolus 6y agoI meant in terms of video bitrate-- regarding content, the default feed is unlikely to appeal to working professionals, but it does tune itself rather effectively when fed preference data. I have no idea if it will do personalization from the web site.
- scumcity 6y agohrmh, this is about the level of stupidity I expect from hn at this pt.
- mcintyre1994 6y agoHas it hit an API limit or something? I just get the tweet text but no video. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/6TZTFkJ https://imgur.com/a/6TZTFkJ in Safari iOS Edit: reloaded without content blockers and it worked! :)
- mashpotato 6y agoWhat was the hardest part of making this?
- baby 6y agoI was watching this on my ipad pro and every videos was muted by default. Had to click to unmute on each of em’
- joshribakoff 6y agoCool, please add keyboard controls. Really addictive idea but swiping on a laptop isn't fun
- galuggus 6y agoAdded
- nextaccountic 6y agoNote, you need to disable tracking protection for this page in Firefox. Also, how to move to the next video? I'm on desktop.
- INTPenis 6y agoThis is a simple way of showing Twitter where they missed out.
- galuggus 6y agoNow on Producthunt.com
- bzb4 6y agoIt would be cool if this was made into an actual app so scrolling would work properly
- galuggus 6y agoWhat device did you view it on?
- macieklaskus 6y agoThis could be a real product if it sourced from specific clusters. For example, NBA Twitter.
- galuggus 6y agoInteresting idea
- tomschwiha 6y agoI like the path[1] when you've reached the final Destination (or the end of Twitter) [1] https://twiktwok.github.io/test2.html https://twiktwok.github.io/test2.html
- seamyb88 6y agoWhat will you (be forced to) change the name to when Microsoft takes over?
- thrownaway954 6y agoI don't get it .. why am I getting the same videos for the last 4 times I've viewed this thing??? Anyone else experience that?