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Most (if not all) are plain text. Prolifi.cc allows styling via Markdown, images, etc. More of a proper article post and less wall of…",{"id":58,"by":11,"text":59},"4166926","The \"feature\" I was shooting for is zero-signup. It authenticates you via Twitter and that's it.",{"value":61,"source":52,"evidence":62},"Maker had an itch to scratch and built it for personal use",[63,66],{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},"4166855","TBH the only person I built it for is me. I had an itch and scratched it.",{"id":67,"by":11,"text":68},"4169080","Technically done-in-a-long-weekend (last Thanksgiving). I'm attempting to turn it into a side-project to justify buying a Retina MacBook Pro, so I dusted it off, recorded the…",{"value":70,"source":52,"evidence":71},"Done in a long weekend",[72],{"id":67,"by":11,"text":68},[74,80,84,88,92],{"value":75,"source":52,"evidence":76},"Ruby on Rails",[77],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"4167062","Rails on Passenger on nginx, omniauth for Twitter authentication, redcarpet for Markdown support.",{"value":81,"source":52,"evidence":82},"Passenger",[83],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},{"value":85,"source":52,"evidence":86},"nginx",[87],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},{"value":89,"source":52,"evidence":90},"omniauth for Twitter authentication",[91],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},{"value":93,"source":52,"evidence":94},"redcarpet for Markdown",[95],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":100,"objections":117,"requests":142,"questions":185,"alternatives":208},[101,110],{"value":102,"source":103,"evidence":104},"Zero-signup Twitter auth is low friction","commenter",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"4166996","nollidge","I might actually use this... 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I use to have this on my website with facebook instead of asking someone to create an account and link it with facebook. If facebook bans your website => you…",{"value":133,"source":103,"evidence":134},"Unclear target audience and why it's needed",[135,139],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"4166829","hilti","Where's the target group? Because the question is: how many people use twitter and don't have a blog or website?",{"id":140,"by":130,"text":141},"4166826","So. You created an application to blog and to be able to post that on twitter. I don't get why this is #3 on HN right now.",[143,158,165,175],{"value":144,"source":103,"evidence":145},"Browser extension or Twitter client integration",[146,150,154],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"4167392","narisipalli","Would be more useful if prolifi has an extension. That way, when I exceed 160 chars on twitter, I am reminded that I can post the blurp through prolifi instead and have the link…",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"4170659","karanbhangui","Would be cool as a browser plugin, so that when a message goes over the character limit, a button to post via Prolificc appears, all within the natural flow of using the Twitter…",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"4167768","nsxwolf","You know what would be really killer? Fork a couple popular open source desktop Twitter clients and add Prolifi.cc integration. Whenever you start typing past the character…",{"value":159,"source":103,"evidence":160},"Video playback on Android (WebM)",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"4167112","sente","The video won't play in my Android by the way. How about that blurb? ;)",{"value":166,"source":103,"evidence":167},"Text summary on landing page",[168,172],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"4166935","SnowLprd","No text-based summary, introduction, or blurb? 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Added to my to-do list.",[186,197],{"value":187,"source":103,"evidence":188},"Monetization or open source plans",[189,193],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"4166953","prezjordan","Glad you shipped it :) Any plans of monetization? Open-source?",{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"4167385","fahad-sheikh","Thanks for sharing that. I was looking for something like this, keep up the good work :) Also, would be cool, if you decided at some point to open-source it or unless you went…",{"value":198,"source":103,"evidence":199},"How it differs from TwitLonger and cpypst.me",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"4167556","j_col","Similar to TwitLonger?",{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"4169063","arrowgunz","How is it different from http:\u002F\u002Fcpypst.me\u002F",[209,213,217,224,231],{"value":210,"source":103,"evidence":211},"TwitLonger",[212],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},{"value":214,"source":103,"evidence":215},"cpypst.me",[216],{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},{"value":218,"source":103,"evidence":219},"Tumblr",[220],{"id":221,"by":222,"text":223},"4167021","vineet","So basically tumblr with zero sign-up?",{"value":225,"source":103,"evidence":226},"checkthis.com",[227],{"id":228,"by":229,"text":230},"4167103","johnmurch","Reminds me a lot like http:\u002F\u002Fcheckthis.com\u002F except a micro-micro blog form",{"value":232,"source":103,"evidence":233},"thinkery.me",[234],{"id":235,"by":236,"text":237},"4167200","nader","You could just use thinkery.me and make your stream public for that.",{"comments":32,"answered":239,"key":240},11,[241,244,247],{"id":242,"text":243},"4166943","Agreed and great point. 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