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Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

29 points by ozkatz 14y ago

benjlang 14y ago
Definitely see the value in this. FYI small spelling mistake: virallity
- ozkatz 14y ago
  Thanks! Good catch, fixing.
- notatoad 14y ago
  pretty sure the correct spelling is virality.
citricsquid 14y ago
A demo would be nice, I'm not sure I understand the concept. Do I need to login with Facebook or Twitter to see how it works, or to get one of them (whatever they are)?
- ozkatz 14y ago
  Yea, the front page definitely needs some work, you only need either Facebook or Twitter to get started, not both.
  - citricsquid 14y ago
    turns out I was misunderstanding, after logging in with Facebook I get the concept perfectly. Awesome idea, I think the frontpage is fine, I thought it was something a website owner added which confused me, my bad not yours!
BrianPetro 14y ago
I can see myself using this! Nice job. edit: Here is an example of my bar on the page shared above: http://bit.ly/TOlIDo http://bit.ly/TOlIDo edit^2: Already shared with my friends that are big into social sharing. Again, nice work.
- ozkatz 14y ago
  Happy to hear that! Thank you.
danielamitay 14y ago
Probably minor to most visitors, but stuck out to me: The screenshot is being taken of a localhost instance. Easy fix. EDIT: Also, BrianPetro's example broke heavily for me on Mobile Safari when zooming in.
jonnymkramer 14y ago
So you load the webpage in an iFrame? Many websites wont let themselves be loaded into an iFrame to defend against clickjacking. For example you can't share youtube videos with this.
- ozkatz 14y ago
  We check if a website allows embedding before creating the short link. In case embedding is forbidden we redirect to the web page itself, so we can still track analytics for that link (you'll also get a message about that in the dashboard).
michaelhoffman 14y ago
As a user, I find these sorts of attempts to control my experience for increased "engagement" incredibly obnoxious. At least the Ow.ly bar lets me easily turn it off permanently.
tommoor 14y ago
Great idea guys, and well executed. I can totally see how this would increase the amount of followers you would get. Agreed with with @michaelhoffman though - it would be nice to have the option to permanently remove (there will always be those that hate seeing these things).
- ozkatz 14y ago
  Hi Tom, Thanks! We will probably add such an option soon enough. btw, I'll contact you soon regarding Buffer integration :)
iamweisser 14y ago
First off, great idea and nice execution. One small problem: When I share the bit.ly link (this one for instance: http://bit.ly/YCabMj http://bit.ly/YCabMj) on FB it seems that the branded bar may be messing up the preview and causing it not to load. Looking forward to seeing the progression of this idea.
- ozkatz 14y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I'm looking into it.
wlue 14y ago
Looks like Visibli (http://visibli.com http://visibli.com), if you haven't seen it before.
csense 14y ago
I misread the title, thought it said "A branded bear." That would have been more fun.
roeybr 14y ago
great execution. I wish there was a way to add more twiiter\fb profiles so I can share with personal or business profiles from the same account.
paigalhaes 14y ago
nice job! I believe you have a "to do" list, but a mere 1 minute fix of changing the print-screen using your real URL would be nice :) and ty for the inside history http://ozkatz.github.com/from-idea-to-mvp-to-1-on-hacker-news-in-72-hours.html http://ozkatz.github.com/from-idea-to-mvp-to-1-on-hacker-new...

29 points by ozkatz 14y ago

benjlang 14y ago

Definitely see the value in this. FYI small spelling mistake: virallity

ozkatz 14y ago
Thanks! Good catch, fixing.
notatoad 14y ago
pretty sure the correct spelling is virality.

citricsquid 14y ago

A demo would be nice, I'm not sure I understand the concept. Do I need to login with Facebook or Twitter to see how it works, or to get one of them (whatever they are)?

ozkatz 14y ago
Yea, the front page definitely needs some work, you only need either Facebook or Twitter to get started, not both.
- citricsquid 14y ago
  turns out I was misunderstanding, after logging in with Facebook I get the concept perfectly. Awesome idea, I think the frontpage is fine, I thought it was something a website owner added which confused me, my bad not yours!

BrianPetro 14y ago

I can see myself using this! Nice job. edit: Here is an example of my bar on the page shared above: http://bit.ly/TOlIDo http://bit.ly/TOlIDo edit^2: Already shared with my friends that are big into social sharing. Again, nice work.

ozkatz 14y ago
Happy to hear that! Thank you.

danielamitay 14y ago

Probably minor to most visitors, but stuck out to me: The screenshot is being taken of a localhost instance. Easy fix. EDIT: Also, BrianPetro's example broke heavily for me on Mobile Safari when zooming in.

jonnymkramer 14y ago

So you load the webpage in an iFrame? Many websites wont let themselves be loaded into an iFrame to defend against clickjacking. For example you can't share youtube videos with this.

ozkatz 14y ago
We check if a website allows embedding before creating the short link. In case embedding is forbidden we redirect to the web page itself, so we can still track analytics for that link (you'll also get a message about that in the dashboard).

michaelhoffman 14y ago

As a user, I find these sorts of attempts to control my experience for increased "engagement" incredibly obnoxious. At least the Ow.ly bar lets me easily turn it off permanently.

tommoor 14y ago

Great idea guys, and well executed. I can totally see how this would increase the amount of followers you would get. Agreed with with @michaelhoffman though - it would be nice to have the option to permanently remove (there will always be those that hate seeing these things).

ozkatz 14y ago
Hi Tom, Thanks! We will probably add such an option soon enough. btw, I'll contact you soon regarding Buffer integration :)

iamweisser 14y ago

First off, great idea and nice execution. One small problem: When I share the bit.ly link (this one for instance: http://bit.ly/YCabMj http://bit.ly/YCabMj) on FB it seems that the branded bar may be messing up the preview and causing it not to load. Looking forward to seeing the progression of this idea.

ozkatz 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm looking into it.

wlue 14y ago

Looks like Visibli (http://visibli.com http://visibli.com), if you haven't seen it before.

csense 14y ago

I misread the title, thought it said "A branded bear." That would have been more fun.

roeybr 14y ago

great execution. I wish there was a way to add more twiiter\fb profiles so I can share with personal or business profiles from the same account.

paigalhaes 14y ago

nice job! I believe you have a "to do" list, but a mere 1 minute fix of changing the print-screen using your real URL would be nice :) and ty for the inside history http://ozkatz.github.com/from-idea-to-mvp-to-1-on-hacker-news-in-72-hours.html http://ozkatz.github.com/from-idea-to-mvp-to-1-on-hacker-new...