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Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets
- davidgillespie 15y agoThanks for the link Tyson, you beat me to it. Obviously this is fairly tongue in cheek, but we're reasonably pleased we monetized Twitter in a way that avoided advertising. Hope the HN community enjoys!
- bproper 15y agoHow do you create the TP. In house or outsource?
- davidgillespie 15y agoWe found a printer to work with, though that is what took the longest. Went all over the world and then managed to find one under our noses.
- adorton 15y agoHow did it smell?
- delinka 15y agoPricing before I have to authorize the app would be nice. Sure, I can change permissions later, but I'd rather not have to.
- davidgillespie 15y agoThat's a really valid point delinka, hadn't considered it. Thanks for the feedback.
- Tichy 15y agoI haven't signed in yet, because there is no information on the web site at all. It seems unlikely that you'd ship to Europe, for example? In any case, why not make it any timeline, not just the user's? It would make for a great gift, for example.
- delinka 15y agoAfter signing in, you can indeed select other users' timelines instead of your own.
- davidgillespie 15y agoWe do actually ship to Europe - we ship everywhere. The only downside is our rates are unfortunately nothing like Amazon's. We'd love to get our shipping costs down and are open to suggestion!
- Tichy 15y agoThe ultimate toy would be a printer that prints the feed live to the toilepaper...
- simonbrown 15y agoWhile I agree it would be nice, if your twitter account is public, you're basically just giving it your username.
- shawnbaden 15y agoI feel the same way. I left when I saw pricing wasn't available until I signed in via Twitter.
- sdoering 15y agoThis just made my day. Kudos - or to say it with Dr. Sheldon Cooper: "Bazinga!"
- snikolic 15y agoTwitter's ToS requires third parties to respect deleted tweets, etc. Trying to decide whether the disposable nature of this product meets that requirement...
- Aaronontheweb 15y agoWhen I read this I assumed it was a Twitter app optimized for on-the-toilet reading...
- ChuckMcM 15y agoThis is brilliant! I checked twice to make sure it wasn't april fools day. Of course it probably slows people down during the wipe phase :-)
- dlikhten 15y agoHonestly, I'd love to wipe my ass with shit people say.
- hanula 15y agoBrilliant idea indeed! I would like to see it more customized though, especially to print #tag results... Later to choose your paper depending on your mood.
- vividmind 15y ago+1 on having seeing the pricing first. I wonder how you are going to keep up with orders :)
- autarch 15y agoI always joked about creating a twitter account named "shittr" where I would tweet a message describing every bowel movement I had.
- mootothemax 15y agoLike it! One quick usability fix - can you make it so that when you click "tweets", "timeline", "favourites" etc, the relevant radio button is selected? :) You just need to update the ID in the <label> tags to the relevant radio button id, e.g. feed_feed_type_tweets, feed_feed_type_timeline, feed_feed_type_favorites etc.
- davidgillespie 15y agoExcellent suggestion - and blatantly obvious in hindsight! Thank you! David
- rrbrambley 15y agoThis is hilarious, but if you could replace photo links with inlined photos, I'd be more likely to buy. Nothing beats soiling photos of my friends, family, and favorite food.
- meow 15y agoNow rest room breaks are going to be way longer... there was a project sometime back trying to do the same with SOPA/PIPA bill text :) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/26659043/print-the-sopa-and-pipa-bills-on-toilet-paper http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/26659043/print-the-sopa-...
- davidgillespie 15y agoMeow - I love this =]
- MichaelApproved 15y agoHow do you deal with the copyright issues of printing and selling other peoples tweets?
- davidgillespie 15y agoTwitter's TOS covers this (believe me we checked with the lawyers!). Cheers, David
- waterlesscloud 15y agoIt covers a third party (not the user and not twitter) selling someone's tweets? Who wants to buy my e-book collecting celebrity tweets?
- davidgillespie 15y ago/like
- switz 15y agoBut does it support pull-to-refresh?
- nandemo 15y agoI'll only consider it when they implement infinite scrolling.
- noonespecial 15y agoTail recursion. Oy.
- fuzzythinker 15y ago4 days too early?
- tobiassp 15y agoThis needs QR codes for the links in tweets ;). Nice work!
- thejana 15y agoLove this. Also glad HN allows us to focus on the company or story rather than who wrote it or broke it first :)
- canthonytucci 15y agoThis combined with the little printer ( http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/ http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/ ) and I'm in.
- joshbuddy 15y agoSo, this is an iPhone replacement? (my preferred way to read tweets on the toilet)
- nextstep 15y agoI don't want to be a killjoy but this seems like a wasteful novelty. Are the tweets at least printed on recycled paper?
- kprobst 15y agoWell, the content is definitely recycled.
- scottmey 15y ago+1
- davidgillespie 15y agoI agree. My definition of "wasteful novelty" though includes a raft of consumer web start-ups!
- mc32 15y agoHow is it wasteful? Unlike most novelties, this one is actually useful, no? I have not ordered, but it seems that one can actually make use of the rolls as one would a normal roll.
- oacgnol 15y agoHow quickly will the toilet rolls be shipped? Would it be in time for April Fool's?
- epikur 15y ago$35 for four rolls of @horse_ebooks is... extremely tempting.
- fruchtose 15y agoI laughed, but I would definitely change the name of the product to something that you could mention in public/polite company.
- AC87 15y agoI wonder how much it costs?
- Karunamon 15y agoObligatory Penny Arcade: http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/283628430_FxJSk-L-2.jpg http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/283628430_FxJSk-L-2.jpg
- seanp2k2 15y agoAny chance you'll do a Pintrest version soon? Love this idea/concept. The age of dadaism is upon us with memes and the Internet. <33
- otisfunkmeyer 15y agoyes I love that the art of dada/surrealism has now just bled into everyday reality--more and more, faster and faster! it's like my dream come true :) :) Even just the complete mainstream-ization of meme culture is doing such a wonderful service of warping the minds of humanity! may the lulz continue ad infinitum!!!
- Bud 15y agoThis is truly revolutionary. Or at least revolving.
- JonnieCache 15y agoCome back when it's realtime. (I only wipe myself with recent happenings.) http://hackaday.com/2011/09/27/toilet-paper-printer-made-from-scrap-parts/ http://hackaday.com/2011/09/27/toilet-paper-printer-made-fro...
- cynwoody 15y agoNow there's an idea! An appliance you load with regular TP which has a button you press to get a pre-configured number of one- or two-ply 4.5"x3.7" sheets, printed with very latest tweets. Connected via WiFi. Configured via an internal web server. What kind of hardware do you need to print on TP?
- drivebyacct2 15y agoWe might need a new protocol. TP/IP.
- nullflux 15y agoTaking this too seriously, but you could probably do it by hacking up a mobile inkjet printer and turning the ink volume way down to control ink bleed. Edit: Looks like some guy already did this: http://blog.makezine.com/2011/09/26/toilet-paper-printer/ http://blog.makezine.com/2011/09/26/toilet-paper-printer/
- Kliment 15y agoDoable but expensive. A wifi version would need at least: wifi chip plus antenna - $30 microcontroller + associated bits - $8-15 or so stepper motor drivers (you need two) - $8 or so stepper motors - $6 min printhead and ink - $12, replaceable Battery and charging circuitry And that's not counting manufacturing and profit. Would you pay $70+ for printed toilet paper? If a couple people would, I'm willing to design the device, sell a couple, and open source it.
- corin_ 15y agoI would, if it didn't mean a.) having to wait ages to get a piece of paper, then the next one... b.) any ink rubbing off on fingers or elsewhere.
- Jose_GD 15y agoTempted to start a poll about the future of this idea... Sounds like a fad (a disgusting one IMO)