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Show HN: Remote control your digital life from Twitter

26 points by shaharsol 13y ago

jdotjdot 13y ago
Hey guys, I like your landing page a lot--what framework did you use for it? It looks like you used something out-of-the-box, not necessarily from scratch.
- shaharsol 13y ago
  its from themeforest. pick your landing page here: http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages (and then modify a little...)
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pmcpinto 13y ago
Interesting product
- shaharsol 13y ago
  Thx! I hope it can appeal to non-hackers as well as it involves typing commands, much like CLI IMO.
TheTechBox 13y ago
Seems really interesting but not a huge fan of filling other peoples timelines with my Tweets controlling things. Or am I missing something?
- shaharsol 13y ago
  There are two options: 1. if you reply to a tweet, or start a tweet with a '@', then most of your followers won't see it, unless they follow the replied to handler. so if i tweet a command to @instagram, only @instagram followers among my friends will see it, and there aren't many... 2. there will be cases where you want to engage a conversation around a command you send. for example: CTRL @robinhoodapp buy $FB for USD100 So you buy FB stock AND you get your friends talking about it. Is it a good buy? a bad move?
  - thu 13y ago
    A twitter-based app used to "like" Rihanna pictures on Instagram has also the credentials to spend huge amount of money ?
belze_72 13y ago
I believe there was a similar product that did pretty much the same thing 3-4 years ago. Would anyone recall? What happened to them? I don't know if I would like controlling my personal stuff in a public environment.
- thu 13y ago
  Maybe IFTTT can react to specific tweets.
  - ggurgone 13y ago
    afaik you can't do that with IFTTT This is the most close trigger "New tweet by @me including @replies"
  - shaharsol 13y ago
    I bet they can, but then you'll need a separate recipe for each different command, and as a user you'll need to enable each command before you can use it. This way you just start by tweeting and it just works (after 1st oauth process that is, that is initiated as a reply to your tweet)
- ar7hur 13y ago
  IMified? Was acquired by Voxeo in 2009. Was the same kind of tool, but on IM networks rather than Twitter.
paukiatwee 13y ago
Out of topic, your page include logos of other large companies such as Linkedin, Dropbox, Instagram, is that legal? You can do that while they are not your customers/clients? Maybe what the logos mean is you can get your information from those company from your app. My first impression is those companies are your customers/clients.
- shaharsol 13y ago
  I didn't consult with a lawyer or something... each company and their "branding" rules for API users and most allow to use the logo under certain restrictions that to my best understanding I don't break. Dropbox for instance had to approve the app before I could use the API and I bet they had a look at the website beforehand.
philipp-spiess 13y ago
It's a good idea but it's easier to click the link and do the action manually instead of typing the text and click reply. So there is absolutely no gain for me in using your product.
- shaharsol 13y ago
  fair enough. i know it's for the keyboard savvy type.
rakoo 13y ago
Nice, so you use an external service you have no control on to command external services you have no control on. Great !
K0nserv 13y ago
I built something more general months ago[0], but I found that using twitter to send commands adds a fair bit of overhead and noise to your twitter stream which is annoying. It's a novel idea and the I see the appeal, but keeping down the clutter in the twitter stream is a key issue imo. https://github.com/k0nserv/twicmd https://github.com/k0nserv/twicmd
wut42 13y ago
This reminded me directly of some mIRC Scripts. For example, if you had to change your nick, instead of using the private command `/nick newnick`, the script will give you a command you can use publicly on the channel, like `!nick`. So everyone can know twice that you're changing your nick. Also people who was using theses scripts used to change nicks every time they do something (eating, sleeping, going to work, ...) — and I always hated that because it was adding too much useless noise to IRC. Now... this tool seems quite similar. Controlling your life should happen in secret - I don't want to know when you want to turn on the bulb in your toilets, I don't care how much space you have in your dropbox, …. All theses things are private matter. Twitter is already full of useless noise, don't add more...
- shaharsol 13y ago
  I kinda hear ya. However - I always thought of twitter more as a communication protocol rather then a content app. I think twitter today is indeed already full of noise, and anyway there's no way to use it for content without curation tools.
  - wut42 13y ago
    Yes. Me too (hence the comparision with IRC/mIRC Scripts). However this kind of communication is just purely personal, I doubt anyone is interested in the fact that some friend wanted to know how full his dropbox was at some time in the day. Maybe the _result_ is interesting, but the trigger is not. But if this works with direct messages, i'm buying it! (edit: typos)
    - shaharsol 13y ago
      I have an example in another comment of how I can buy stock with it: CTRL @robinhoodapp buy $FB USD100 And then apart from making the transaction I can start convert with my followers about this deal. What do u think of such scenario?
      - wut42 13y ago
ar7hur 13y ago
Nice product, well executed. Reminds me of IMified a few years back. If you want to build something similar yourself for your own app, it's very easy with the Wit API [1] [1] https://wit.ai https://wit.ai
pattle 13y ago
Cool product and congratulations on launching. I kind of had a similar idea but never got round to building it. What would put me off is the fact that I'd be cluttering up the feeds of those that follow me with things that should be done in private. Surely it would work better with DM's rather than public tweets? Also I'm not sure how practical / time saving this will be. For example liking a photo on instagram using CtrlTwit doesn't really save me any time/hassle than just going straight to instagram. However like I said it is pretty cool and I'll give it a try. You're presentation is great too.
fudged71 13y ago
Reminds me of Hubot http://hubot.github.com/ http://hubot.github.com/ I suppose you could also use twitter DMs for notifications from services.
jarnix 13y ago
Sorry but I don't see the use of relying on Twitter for requesting other APIs !
EnderC 13y ago
This just seems like a good way to annoy your followers.

26 points by shaharsol 13y ago

Hey guys, I like your landing page a lot--what framework did you use for it? It looks like you used something out-of-the-box, not necessarily from scratch.

shaharsol 13y ago
its from themeforest. pick your landing page here: http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages (and then modify a little...)
deleted 13y ago
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pmcpinto 13y ago

Interesting product

shaharsol 13y ago
Thx! I hope it can appeal to non-hackers as well as it involves typing commands, much like CLI IMO.

TheTechBox 13y ago

Seems really interesting but not a huge fan of filling other peoples timelines with my Tweets controlling things. Or am I missing something?

shaharsol 13y ago
There are two options: 1. if you reply to a tweet, or start a tweet with a '@', then most of your followers won't see it, unless they follow the replied to handler. so if i tweet a command to @instagram, only @instagram followers among my friends will see it, and there aren't many... 2. there will be cases where you want to engage a conversation around a command you send. for example: CTRL @robinhoodapp buy $FB for USD100 So you buy FB stock AND you get your friends talking about it. Is it a good buy? a bad move?
- thu 13y ago
  A twitter-based app used to "like" Rihanna pictures on Instagram has also the credentials to spend huge amount of money ?

belze_72 13y ago

I believe there was a similar product that did pretty much the same thing 3-4 years ago. Would anyone recall? What happened to them? I don't know if I would like controlling my personal stuff in a public environment.

thu 13y ago
Maybe IFTTT can react to specific tweets.
- ggurgone 13y ago
  afaik you can't do that with IFTTT This is the most close trigger "New tweet by @me including @replies"
- shaharsol 13y ago
  I bet they can, but then you'll need a separate recipe for each different command, and as a user you'll need to enable each command before you can use it. This way you just start by tweeting and it just works (after 1st oauth process that is, that is initiated as a reply to your tweet)
ar7hur 13y ago
IMified? Was acquired by Voxeo in 2009. Was the same kind of tool, but on IM networks rather than Twitter.

paukiatwee 13y ago

Out of topic, your page include logos of other large companies such as Linkedin, Dropbox, Instagram, is that legal? You can do that while they are not your customers/clients? Maybe what the logos mean is you can get your information from those company from your app. My first impression is those companies are your customers/clients.

shaharsol 13y ago
I didn't consult with a lawyer or something... each company and their "branding" rules for API users and most allow to use the logo under certain restrictions that to my best understanding I don't break. Dropbox for instance had to approve the app before I could use the API and I bet they had a look at the website beforehand.

philipp-spiess 13y ago

It's a good idea but it's easier to click the link and do the action manually instead of typing the text and click reply. So there is absolutely no gain for me in using your product.

shaharsol 13y ago
fair enough. i know it's for the keyboard savvy type.

rakoo 13y ago

Nice, so you use an external service you have no control on to command external services you have no control on. Great !

K0nserv 13y ago

I built something more general months ago[0], but I found that using twitter to send commands adds a fair bit of overhead and noise to your twitter stream which is annoying. It's a novel idea and the I see the appeal, but keeping down the clutter in the twitter stream is a key issue imo. https://github.com/k0nserv/twicmd https://github.com/k0nserv/twicmd

wut42 13y ago

This reminded me directly of some mIRC Scripts. For example, if you had to change your nick, instead of using the private command `/nick newnick`, the script will give you a command you can use publicly on the channel, like `!nick`. So everyone can know twice that you're changing your nick. Also people who was using theses scripts used to change nicks every time they do something (eating, sleeping, going to work, ...) — and I always hated that because it was adding too much useless noise to IRC. Now... this tool seems quite similar. Controlling your life should happen in secret - I don't want to know when you want to turn on the bulb in your toilets, I don't care how much space you have in your dropbox, …. All theses things are private matter. Twitter is already full of useless noise, don't add more...

shaharsol 13y ago
I kinda hear ya. However - I always thought of twitter more as a communication protocol rather then a content app. I think twitter today is indeed already full of noise, and anyway there's no way to use it for content without curation tools.
- wut42 13y ago
  Yes. Me too (hence the comparision with IRC/mIRC Scripts). However this kind of communication is just purely personal, I doubt anyone is interested in the fact that some friend wanted to know how full his dropbox was at some time in the day. Maybe the _result_ is interesting, but the trigger is not. But if this works with direct messages, i'm buying it! (edit: typos)
  - shaharsol 13y ago
    I have an example in another comment of how I can buy stock with it: CTRL @robinhoodapp buy $FB USD100 And then apart from making the transaction I can start convert with my followers about this deal. What do u think of such scenario?
    - wut42 13y ago

ar7hur 13y ago

Nice product, well executed. Reminds me of IMified a few years back. If you want to build something similar yourself for your own app, it's very easy with the Wit API [1] [1] https://wit.ai https://wit.ai

pattle 13y ago

Cool product and congratulations on launching. I kind of had a similar idea but never got round to building it. What would put me off is the fact that I'd be cluttering up the feeds of those that follow me with things that should be done in private. Surely it would work better with DM's rather than public tweets? Also I'm not sure how practical / time saving this will be. For example liking a photo on instagram using CtrlTwit doesn't really save me any time/hassle than just going straight to instagram. However like I said it is pretty cool and I'll give it a try. You're presentation is great too.

fudged71 13y ago

Reminds me of Hubot http://hubot.github.com/ http://hubot.github.com/ I suppose you could also use twitter DMs for notifications from services.

jarnix 13y ago

Sorry but I don't see the use of relying on Twitter for requesting other APIs !

EnderC 13y ago

This just seems like a good way to annoy your followers.