Twiverse
Consumer and social
social discovery
SHOW HN2018
93points
66comments
#472of 2,155 in 2018
Top 22%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 5 for, 7 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that targets a real need for diverse follows
From 3 comments
This is a fantastic idea. Ignore the negativity, particularly from the "what about the men" comments. Super cool!
mckee1 on HNThis is awesome I've been telling Twitter to be aware of who they follow, now it's a practical solution I can throw at them.
morajabi on HNquite honestly i dont need to see more men on my twitter follow list. i already follow 2.8k people and i know it's more than a 50/50 split of men ratio of men to women, so i've…
nemof on HN
Shipped quickly; boring stack praised
From 2 comments
I love how “boring” this stack is; great job just shipping the damn thing!
zachsnow on HNFirst of all, props for shipping this! It says you're only 18 so great work! I think that people are taking issue with this though: > Taking aside what people might think about…
malvosenior on HN
Objections
Categories look politically biased and exclude religion and politics
From 3 comments
To be a place to find users from "different backgrounds" it looks to me to only show the political bias of the author. Correct me if I am wrong, but the only sanctioned different…
DeusExMachina on HN> I made the category for women after receiving a suggestion from a partner You are still the one that made the decision to implement a one-sided feature, though, so you…
DeusExMachina on HNBy default the Bio is collapsed. So I am supposed to follow people because of their gender, sexual orientation or disability, in order to have a more diverse Twitter feed? That…
dna_polymerase on HN
Gender-only women section seen as one-sided
From 2 comments
To be a place to find users from "different backgrounds" it looks to me to only show the political bias of the author. Correct me if I am wrong, but the only sanctioned different…
DeusExMachina on HN> I made the category for women after receiving a suggestion from a partner You are still the one that made the decision to implement a one-sided feature, though, so you…
DeusExMachina on HN
Identity-based selection is shallow; judge content instead
From 2 comments
How “different” a person is has little to no influence on how good their content is. Being “diverse” doesn’t make you great. Being great makes you great. Instead of showing who…
matte_black on HNBy default the Bio is collapsed. So I am supposed to follow people because of their gender, sexual orientation or disability, in order to have a more diverse Twitter feed? That…
dna_polymerase on HN
Requests
Dynamic user-created tags
From 2 comments
Would it be a better solution to let users categorize themselves freely with tags they can type themselves?
bemmu on HNGood idea, I wanted to implement dynamic categories in the beginning, but somehow the idea got lost in the way. I simply feared that without enough users, most dynamically…
tcodina on HN
Add religion and political ideology filters
From 1 comment
That is a fair perspective on the platform. I initially created the website because of a lack of women in my following list - I had ~80% men and only 20% women, many of which…
tcodina on HN
Better imagery matching topics
From 1 comment
I can easily see myself using this, going through twitter recently to prune and replace some of the accounts I follow. One suggestion if I might? I noticed some of the imagery…
iamdave on HN
Finer domains such as machine learning and devops
From 1 comment
This is really interesting and I hope it does well! Are you considering refining the domains at all, like say splitting development and technology into machine learning, devops,…
PascLeRasc on HN
Questions
What is the tech stack?
From 1 comment
Hi Toni. What is the tech stack behind Twiverse?
alexanderisora on HN
How were the initial users gathered?
From 2 comments
How did you gather these Twitter users?
seapunk on HNProbably also how about the initial users specifically
morajabi on HN
How does becoming a patron affect rankings?
From 1 comment
Cool project! One minor question, how much does becoming a patron affect rankings?
elvinyung on HN
Alternatives named
Peepmore retweet incentive prototype
From 1 comment
Following like-minded profiles and hope for a follow back is one way to increase your audience. Another is to let your content speak for you. To make this easier for the little…
h43z on HN