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Show HN: my first app turns Twitter into a news aggregator

14 points by achompas 15y ago

Hey everyone, Common advice for inexperienced hackers suggests "scratching an itch." Like many others here, I spent too much time on HN, Google Reader and Twitter searching for interesting stuff, so I decided to write an app that brings interesting links to you with no other distractions. HighFive uses Twitter and bit.ly's APIs to find interesting links in your timeline. When you log in, you'll see a group of five links with voting arrows. No HN comments or RSS feeds with hundreds of links--just a few interesting articles that you can read, then get back to work. HighFive was built using Python and Django, and it lives at http://acompa.net/highfive. This is my first app (and I only started using Python last year), so any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks, everyone! -Alejandro tl;dr -- Check out my first web app at http://acompa.net/highfive

rane 15y ago
You lost me on the front page. I'm not going to sign in with my twitter even out of curiosity, so perhaps you should make the first impression more compelling.
- achompas 15y ago
  Sure thing. Do you think it's a copy issue, or that the app isn't explained too well?
  - hugh3 15y ago
    I'd like to see an example of it in action. Also I'd need reassurance that you're not about to spam all my followers.
    - achompas 15y ago
      Agreed, I'd be worried too. I actually address the spam thing in the Terms section (http://acompa.net/highfive/terms/ http://acompa.net/highfive/terms/), and I have a little example in the How It Works section (http://acompa.net/highfive/help/ http://acompa.net/highfive/help/). Guess I should make those more obvious?
    - aaronblohowiak 15y ago
      when you go to authorize, it only asks for read permissions (as verified by the twitter page.)
guynamedloren 15y ago
clickable: http://acompa.net/highfive http://acompa.net/highfive
wushupork 15y ago
Just tried this and got an error https://skitch.com/spotonpek/r9xxt/500-internal-server-error https://skitch.com/spotonpek/r9xxt/500-internal-server-error
- achompas 15y ago
  Thanks--I'm getting a bunch of "401: Unauthorized" notices right now. Hmm...
bryanhun 15y ago
I like the concept. Are you using social engagement (bitly shares, retweets, etc.) to rank the links?
44Aman 15y ago
I'm getting an error trying to OAuth
- achompas 15y ago
  Can you try again? I was using an outdated version of an OAuth script.
deleted 15y ago
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achompas 15y ago
All right, I believe (believe!) I fixed the "401: Unauthorized" error. Would really appreciate it if someone could try again.
JoshKalkbrenner 15y ago
I received the following error, after I signed-in via Twitter Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, acompanioni@gmail.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
hrasm 15y ago
The site is unreachable now (1540 JST).
vkkan 15y ago
I tried to use it but once twitter authorisation done its shows error page sorry
owrange 15y ago
got internal server error =(

14 points by achompas 15y ago

rane 15y ago

You lost me on the front page. I'm not going to sign in with my twitter even out of curiosity, so perhaps you should make the first impression more compelling.

achompas 15y ago
Sure thing. Do you think it's a copy issue, or that the app isn't explained too well?
- hugh3 15y ago
  I'd like to see an example of it in action. Also I'd need reassurance that you're not about to spam all my followers.
  - achompas 15y ago
    Agreed, I'd be worried too. I actually address the spam thing in the Terms section (http://acompa.net/highfive/terms/ http://acompa.net/highfive/terms/), and I have a little example in the How It Works section (http://acompa.net/highfive/help/ http://acompa.net/highfive/help/). Guess I should make those more obvious?
  - aaronblohowiak 15y ago
    when you go to authorize, it only asks for read permissions (as verified by the twitter page.)

guynamedloren 15y ago

clickable: http://acompa.net/highfive http://acompa.net/highfive

wushupork 15y ago

Just tried this and got an error https://skitch.com/spotonpek/r9xxt/500-internal-server-error https://skitch.com/spotonpek/r9xxt/500-internal-server-error

achompas 15y ago
Thanks--I'm getting a bunch of "401: Unauthorized" notices right now. Hmm...

bryanhun 15y ago

I like the concept. Are you using social engagement (bitly shares, retweets, etc.) to rank the links?

44Aman 15y ago

I'm getting an error trying to OAuth

achompas 15y ago
Can you try again? I was using an outdated version of an OAuth script.

deleted 15y ago

[deleted]

achompas 15y ago

All right, I believe (believe!) I fixed the "401: Unauthorized" error. Would really appreciate it if someone could try again.

JoshKalkbrenner 15y ago

I received the following error, after I signed-in via Twitter Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, acompanioni@gmail.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

hrasm 15y ago

The site is unreachable now (1540 JST).

vkkan 15y ago

I tried to use it but once twitter authorisation done its shows error page sorry

owrange 15y ago

got internal server error =(