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by ramkarthikk 5y ago
Ah thanks. It should be fixed now.
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by ramkarthikk 5y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Glad you like this. Yes, I was spending way too much time because of the endless feed and scroll. I was seeing more things I didn't subscribe to (follow) than what I subscribed to. So I created this app. The
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by ramkarthikk 5y ago
I created https://plaintweet.com/ primarily for myself. I posted it on HN sometime back and many people visited it. It is completely free and doesn't use any analytics so I don't know how many people use it (if an
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by ramkarthikk 5y ago
If this writing is what the author brings to the table, I think they are more than capable of writing a useful blog. And with more writing, it will only get better. > It feels as if I should have great things to say about... stuff... and
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You Procrastinate(scotthyoung.com)
2 points by ramkarthikk 6y ago|0 comments
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Thank you. I used to use WhatsApp at first, then I started using Notion. But anything I tried always required me to do more than a few clicks.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Whenever I'm browsing something that I want to send to my mobile, I send it via WhatsApp web or some hard way. I wanted a way to quickly send links to my mobile. Since we can scan QR code to open URLs, I create a page that takes a URL
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Show HN: I built a quick way to send links from desktop to mobile(openthisurl.com)
6 points by ramkarthikk 6y ago|6 comments
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Congrats on launching the app! You have mentioned the earnings from a tip-jar system. I also noticed that Typefully links to Mailbrew. It will be interesting to see the traffic numbers to Mailbrew and how many of them ended up signing up&#x
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
I agree with this mostly but to play devil's advocate: If you are good enough to build a product that people are willing to pay for, would it be really that hard to get a new job if you lose your current job?
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
“The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life” - This is a book on stoicism. It’s a quick read but has so much value. I re-read this book once a year. “Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United” - I’m a huge Manchester
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
A quick feedback: There are so many newletters these days that lot of people need a strong reason to give their email ID. Substack has a good feature where people can read previous issues before subscribing. Since there is no landing page o
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
"I am writing this to let you all know that everyone's experience during this pandemic is not the same. I do not have all this extra time that folks keep talking about." Thank you for writing this. At times, not intentionally
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
I'm planning to add this as a setting in the next increment.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Ah, thanks. That helps. Checking David's profile, it is the newer style retweet, which shouldn't have showed up.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Yes, this is a problem, especially if the app becomes huge. They also have some strict rate limits. For ex: The endpoint to get mentions is restricted to 100,000 requests per day, which is very less for a popular app. There are ways to get
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback. I wanted to test the waters with a quick web app before building a mobile app.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
This would be interesting to add. I don't use any JavaScript, so I would have to get the user to set their time zone and the time after which they want to switch.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
I did not want to request permission to post on behalf of users. With that out of the way, the most minimal way to reply and create new tweets (and even like/retweet) without write permissions is using Twitter's intent feature whi
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Retweets are always off and cannot be changed, so it should not show retweets in home timeline. It could be a bug I missed. I will take a look. Thank you for the heads up.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
I'm not aware of one. As @eyelidlessness pointed out in the comment above, it seems to change back randomly, so I think it would be hard to detect when it changes.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
The frustrating part is that even when you change your settings in Twitter to show most recent tweets, it goes back to top tweets in a day or two.
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
Thank you. Not sure how I didn't hit that scenario the last two days when I built it (maybe long weekend and not many people tweeting?). That can be really annoying, especially in mobile. I will fix it soon.
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Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules(plaintweet.com)
86 points by ramkarthikk 6y ago|34 comments
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by ramkarthikk 6y ago
There are many blogs today but when (many) people say they miss the old days of blogging, it is mostly not about the number of blogs. Back then, there was a huge community around blogs. That community has moved to Twitter and other places.
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by ramkarthikk 8y ago
Count me in.
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by ramkarthikk 9y ago
Interesting read about an equally interesting product (plugin). I can definitely see how it can help so many people. Quick suggestion: If at any point you are looking to offer varying price points based on features, one possibility is to ha
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by ramkarthikk 10y ago
Like the minimal look and the first set of links. You should add a newsletter where you send these links to the list subscribers. Not sure how many users would bookmark and keep returning every week to check, with the amount of curation si
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by ramkarthikk 10y ago
Apart from the use case that you have mentioned, there is another little way this can be helpful to users. If any startup/side project is putting effort in Twitter, it is safe to assume that they will tweet at least 200 times a month (
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by ramkarthikk 10y ago
It's interesting where he talks about having an imaginary meter on your forehead and moving the needle to (P)ositive or (N)egative. He explains this with a nice example: > When I write, “Bob was an asshole,” and then, feeling this p

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