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In case there is any confusion, Autobahn for Hacker News launched on July 4th with hundreds of unique daily users using the slogan "Save Time on Hacker News", s

by vlad 14y ago

In case there is any confusion, Autobahn for Hacker News launched on July 4th with hundreds of unique daily users using the slogan "Save Time on Hacker News", so I ask this author to come up with another tagline to avoid confusion. With Autobahn, you truly save time: you can ban stories by domain name, see full story domain names, and view user profiles in an overlay with a twitter button and picture, so you don't have to click the back button; also, profile links and e-mails are clickable as well, so you don't have to copy-paste! If you only want some of these features, simply uncheck the ones you need using the options panel: http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/img/autobahn-options-google-chrome.png http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/img/autobahn-options-google-... Official site: http://wwww.autobahnapp.com http://wwww.autobahnapp.com Original Hacker News discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197062 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197062

d503 14y ago
This project was clearly around before Autobahn (May 27 blog post vs June 8 start date) and according to the Chrome Web Store it has more users (785 vs 409). http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-all-read/ http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-...
danmaz74 14y ago
In case there is any confusion, as somebody else already noticed, Mark All Read was published already in may, and the announcement was titled "save time on hacker news": http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-all-read/ http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-... If you want to use that slogan I'm not going to sue you, but please, before sending this kind of "cease and desist", at least check your facts.
- vlad 14y ago
  I didn't realize you used the exact same slogan previously! While there are many other Chrome extensions on Hacker News, I spent three weeks perfecting the three main features (banning domains, user profile overlay, subdomains) as well as allowing the users to disable any of them. As anyone on Hacker News who's ever released a product can relate, I was confused that 1) someone used mine for many months, and then uninstalled it without realizing they could disable a feature, and 2) the same person who used mine for many months didn't know the difference between my plugin and yours, and then 3) they posted on my favorite tech site about it. :) Looks like they remembered the slogan from my web site, "Save Time on Hacker News", but not the web site url, or the screenshot showing that you can go the standard Chrome Options to disable a feature. Given that I only submitted Autobahn once to the Chrome Store and Hacker News and haven't had a bug to force releasing a new update since launch, I guess I have to start writing blog posts, marketing, and work up the branding a bit when I release version 2. :) Both of us obviously developed and use our own plugin for our own needs, and I hope we continue to share our improvements to the site with the Hacker News crowd! :) Finally, I also want to thank Alex for making me consider adding a specific icon to the username for loading the user profile normally, and will follow-up with him about why he didn't like the feature after using it for many months.
  - danmaz74 14y ago
    Ok, no big deal :) Case closed, and good luck with your extension!

by vlad 14y ago

d503 14y ago

This project was clearly around before Autobahn (May 27 blog post vs June 8 start date) and according to the Chrome Web Store it has more users (785 vs 409). http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-all-read/ http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-...

danmaz74 14y ago

In case there is any confusion, as somebody else already noticed, Mark All Read was published already in may, and the announcement was titled "save time on hacker news": http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-all-read/ http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-... If you want to use that slogan I'm not going to sue you, but please, before sending this kind of "cease and desist", at least check your facts.

vlad 14y ago
I didn't realize you used the exact same slogan previously! While there are many other Chrome extensions on Hacker News, I spent three weeks perfecting the three main features (banning domains, user profile overlay, subdomains) as well as allowing the users to disable any of them. As anyone on Hacker News who's ever released a product can relate, I was confused that 1) someone used mine for many months, and then uninstalled it without realizing they could disable a feature, and 2) the same person who used mine for many months didn't know the difference between my plugin and yours, and then 3) they posted on my favorite tech site about it. :) Looks like they remembered the slogan from my web site, "Save Time on Hacker News", but not the web site url, or the screenshot showing that you can go the standard Chrome Options to disable a feature. Given that I only submitted Autobahn once to the Chrome Store and Hacker News and haven't had a bug to force releasing a new update since launch, I guess I have to start writing blog posts, marketing, and work up the branding a bit when I release version 2. :) Both of us obviously developed and use our own plugin for our own needs, and I hope we continue to share our improvements to the site with the Hacker News crowd! :) Finally, I also want to thank Alex for making me consider adding a specific icon to the username for loading the user profile normally, and will follow-up with him about why he didn't like the feature after using it for many months.
- danmaz74 14y ago
  Ok, no big deal :) Case closed, and good luck with your extension!