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I run fruji.com, which has become somewhat of an unexpected monster and received more interest than I ever thought it would. Too much actually, so that most of
by mittermayr 12y ago
I run fruji.com, which has become somewhat of an unexpected monster and received more interest than I ever thought it would. Too much actually, so that most of the bottle necks with regards to communicating through Twitter's API have become massive issues. I've had lots of celebrity and super large brands/companies sign up with onboarding periods of weeks (imagine, you sign up, your first report shows up 3 weeks later, uggh). So, after some customer feedback rounds, I've realized that most of the big accounts care about their verified Twitter followers a lot (they are often big relays/multipliers). That data is much quicker to produce, so I've created a MVP that does just that. It seems to work fine after a few first tests with around 50 users, but I haven't announced it yet to my existing users as well as the general public broadly. Would love to get some technical feedback first from you guys (you've guided me so well through creating so many other things in the first place and avoiding mistakes).
EDIT: No need to sign up, this is basically what you'll get after signing up (this is a shared page, if you look at it from your own account, you're asked to upgrade through tweeting or paying $2 if you have more than 5 verified followers):
http://verified.fruji.com/results/3f4cdab2fa81ac30fd57ef5abdd82229 http://verified.fruji.com/results/3f4cdab2fa81ac30fd57ef5abd...
EDIT 2: The tech behind: It's a Sinatra/Puma setup, jobs are being queued up through Sidekiq, data is being stored in Redis (just lots of ids and id lists), payments are being run through Stripe and front-end is basic JS with super simple custom HTML templating. It runs pretty slim.
EDIT 3: In case you do sign up, please use 'freefruji' to get the full report for free. No reason to pay now.
- skyjacker 12y agoLast time I ate at Taco Bell was over six years ago, and yet they are following me! How do they know?
- mittermayr 12y agoYou should check your Twitter history, maybe there was late night drunken "I need to talk to Taco Bell right now" involved :)
- MichaelApproved 12y agoTaco Bell's Twitter account is only following 14 people. Are you Andrew W.K.? https://twitter.com/TacoBell/following https://twitter.com/TacoBell/following
- skyjacker 12y agoTaco Bell Canada: https://mobile.twitter.com/TacoBellCanada https://mobile.twitter.com/TacoBellCanada I'm almost vegan now, so I'm not their target market.
- jackhammer 12y agoIt would be nice if you could also get this report for an account that you don't own yourself.
- mittermayr 12y agoit's doable, but the twitter limits are much stricter. I've done it on request for certain clients, but it would probably be great to implement as a self-service feature.
- iamben 12y agoJust a heads up - you put anything into the promo code box on the upgrade back and press verify and it'll return a white page (I assume error!). :-)
- mittermayr 12y agothat's strange, I see that my api responds with nonsense, but it shouldn't redirect you. hmm. I'll check it out! thanks!
- iamben 12y agoNo worries. Everything else looks great :-)