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Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com
We launched http://futuretweets.com the day before yesterday. It's a small Twitter app build in Django that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future or send a reoccuring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.
I'm really interested in what you guys think of it (design, functionality etc)
Cheers!
J
- davidw 18y agoMight it get you banned from twitter if you're not careful?
- gumbah 18y agoWhoops! Haven't thought of that... you mean they have a limit on their API use? Might have to build in a schedule-tweet-maximum then...
- ivankirigin 18y agoI think the API limit is once per limit per account. So if an account has multiple tools accessing the API, it is easy to overschedule. I would put a sanity check in both your update rate and the amount you let people schedule. Don't become a twitter-DOS scheduling system :)
- gumbah 18y agoGood idea... Thanks!
- bigbang 18y agoGood idea. Thought of the same Although I thought sendible.com which also does this was more comprehensive in this arena.
- gumbah 18y agoDidn't know Sendible... looks like they've taken the concept to the max. Interesting! Thanks for the link
- markessien 18y agoDon't let the existence of sedible discourage you. They are too wide in focus, while you are smaller in focus and you have a better chance of getting more tweeter users than sendible.
- bigbang 18y agoI agree. They have less than 9K registered users so far. I bet theres a whole lot of ppl who want to schedule thier tweats. Your strong point is that you do it only for twitter.
- pt 18y agothis is neat, i just used it on MAKE for a daily sub code discount. i'd like to have a feature where it can do a count down... for example each day the tweet could say... there X number of days until Y ... blah blah handy for events and other things i'd use it for.
- joshsharp 18y agoNice looking site! However you also have competition from http://tweetlater.com http://tweetlater.com. I hear that's what most people use for scheduling tweets at the moment.
- ryanmahoski 18y ago"have an alibi..." ...that ends in "sent from Future Tweets."
- gumbah 18y agoYou can actually turn that off. It's a preference on your account settings page, and you can override that per scheduled tweet... :)
- ryanmahoski 18y agoInteresting. So what does it say when you override it? "From web"? Isn't that hard to accomplish via API?
- gumbah 18y agoIt indeed says "From web", which is the standard if you don't provide a source parameter to the API. So it's not that hard :)
- senthil_rajasek 18y agoHmmm are people actually ok with giving out their twitter account password to a third party site?
- kirubakaran 18y agoPeople give their bank passwords to mint.com etc!
- alex_c 18y agoAw. Just based on the title, I thought it was an app that lets you guess possible future tweets, and alerts you when anyone actually tweets your guess. That could be fun too :)
- gumbah 18y agoHaha that's pretty cool as well! Like an automated Twitter guessing game! :)
- avinashv 18y agoTypo on http://futuretweets.com/account/signup/ http://futuretweets.com/account/signup/: > No problem, changes are you already have an OpenID url. ...should probably have "chances". I dig the design.
- gumbah 18y agoThanks! I fixed the typo :)