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Show HN: Fatnest, easy collaborative tweeting

13 points by lysol 14y ago

lysol 14y ago
Hi, I made this in my free time because there wasn't really anything that let me delegate tweeting access without all the other junk to people. I envisioned it as something quick and handy for accepting submissions, etc.
- aaronwhite 14y ago
  I built the similar http://TweetFavor.com http://TweetFavor.com, which Twitter promptly shut down once people started using it, post-mortem/rant here: http://restrictionisexpression.com/post/26144987502/im-done-developing-for-twitter http://restrictionisexpression.com/post/26144987502/im-done-... Hopefully you don't suffer the same fate, but Twitter's API policies just aren't friendly for fun little projects like these :/
  - lysol 14y ago
    It's rough. I hope there are open competitors that gain traction and are worth relocating to in the future. But for now I still like the platform over forced bidirectional communication platforms like Facebook. At the very least it's for fun, while it lasts.
    - aaronwhite 14y ago
      Checkout http://app.net http://app.net if you haven't. FatNest/TweetFavor would likely be useful in that context, I hope it gains traction! At any rate, developers, developers, developers! :) I love our people :)
- rouli 14y ago
  cool idea! could be useful for companies (like the one I work at) for employees to tweet via the company official account which is handled by marketing. (If you don't already), you may want a review panel for outgoing tweets, for which (I think) you can charge.
priyanka_sri 14y ago
Neatly executed ! & a nice idea! Few suggestions: 1. Actions seem to lead user across several pages ; IMO, they could be done in a single page (for example, managing an already-added-twitter-account). 2. When I invite someone, you seem to auto-create an ID for their email id. Am not sure if (a) this might end up creating a lot of unused/spam Fatnest accounts, (b) the user (who is invited by email) may not really like it, because he/she might or might not 'actually want' to sign up.
- lysol 14y ago
  Good ideas. I'm thinking a mailto/registration link that'll automatically link the user to the delegated twitter account would probably remove the abuse vector. Thanks for the suggestions!
twentynine 14y ago
Is this about birds?

13 points by lysol 14y ago

lysol 14y ago

Hi, I made this in my free time because there wasn't really anything that let me delegate tweeting access without all the other junk to people. I envisioned it as something quick and handy for accepting submissions, etc.

aaronwhite 14y ago
I built the similar http://TweetFavor.com http://TweetFavor.com, which Twitter promptly shut down once people started using it, post-mortem/rant here: http://restrictionisexpression.com/post/26144987502/im-done-developing-for-twitter http://restrictionisexpression.com/post/26144987502/im-done-... Hopefully you don't suffer the same fate, but Twitter's API policies just aren't friendly for fun little projects like these :/
- lysol 14y ago
  It's rough. I hope there are open competitors that gain traction and are worth relocating to in the future. But for now I still like the platform over forced bidirectional communication platforms like Facebook. At the very least it's for fun, while it lasts.
  - aaronwhite 14y ago
    Checkout http://app.net http://app.net if you haven't. FatNest/TweetFavor would likely be useful in that context, I hope it gains traction! At any rate, developers, developers, developers! :) I love our people :)
rouli 14y ago
cool idea! could be useful for companies (like the one I work at) for employees to tweet via the company official account which is handled by marketing. (If you don't already), you may want a review panel for outgoing tweets, for which (I think) you can charge.

priyanka_sri 14y ago

Neatly executed ! & a nice idea! Few suggestions: 1. Actions seem to lead user across several pages ; IMO, they could be done in a single page (for example, managing an already-added-twitter-account). 2. When I invite someone, you seem to auto-create an ID for their email id. Am not sure if (a) this might end up creating a lot of unused/spam Fatnest accounts, (b) the user (who is invited by email) may not really like it, because he/she might or might not 'actually want' to sign up.

lysol 14y ago
Good ideas. I'm thinking a mailto/registration link that'll automatically link the user to the delegated twitter account would probably remove the abuse vector. Thanks for the suggestions!

twentynine 14y ago

Is this about birds?