Tampon
Productivity
social media scheduling
SHOW HN2012
33points
85comments
#678of 1,677 in 2012
Top 41%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
5 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 26 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Design: 0 for, 13 againstIdea: 2 for, 10 againstExecution: 2 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, simple open source alternative to Buffer
From 3 comments
Great app, happy to see there are people writing useful open source software in their spare time. Let's move on, enough talk on the name, let's dig into the actual code.
adorable on HNTo be honest I started using this just because it looked simple and it was open source. I will keep using it.Great work and thank you for this service. Also kudos on the name.
vacipr on HNNaming is hard, and I appreciate the desire to have fun with a name. It's pretty clear from the responses that this particular joke doesn't work. Looking past the name, it looks…
MartinCron on HN
Objections
Name is offensive or inappropriate for a serious product
From 4 comments
Terrible name, you should definitely change it. It might get you attention and have some shock value at the start but it's going to look stupid eventually (if it doesn't…
k-mcgrady on HNI'm a woman, and I think this needs to be renamed (and given a new logo, stat). Not because tampons make me uncomfortable, but because it seems like a cheap ploy to get…
greengirl512 on HNI'm not a woman, and I agree. It just opens the door for lame, offensive jokes and doesn't have anything to do with the project. There probably was no negative intent, but it…
Johngibb on HN"Tampon"? Seriously? Trying to be edgy?
rogerchucker on HN
Backend code has weak input validation
From 3 comments
40 or so lines? I'm sorry, what? https://github.com/julien-c/Tampon/tree/master/api Also, I don't think this counts as security: ``` if (strlen($id) == 24) { // Looks like a…
sync on HNLooks to me like they just insert the JSON body directly into Mongo without any sort of further validation: ``` $m->tampon->queue->insert($post); ```
sync on HNOoh yeah that isn't very good. They should really be using a JSON schema validation library to verify that someone isn't storing extra fields in the database, and that all the…
NathanKP on HN
Requests
Rename the project
From 3 comments
Rename it.
trimbo on HNAgreed. You wouldn't be the first - Enron's first logo apparently looked like an obscene gesture in Italy even though it was perfectly acceptable in the states, so they changed…
cobrausn on HNTerrible name, you should definitely change it. It might get you attention and have some shock value at the start but it's going to look stupid eventually (if it doesn't…
k-mcgrady on HN
Scheduling tweets for future dates
From 1 comment
Now I understand what it is, this seems like an interesting project. As a Buffer user, the way it's worded made me think it's an app for Buffer and I couldn't work out what it…
petercooper on HN
Questions
Why is it written in PHP
From 1 comment
Looks good... But why PHP ?
yodx on HN
Alternatives named
Buffer
From 2 comments
Now I understand what it is, this seems like an interesting project. As a Buffer user, the way it's worded made me think it's an app for Buffer and I couldn't work out what it…
petercooper on HNI get your point, but I think the issue is terms like "Facebook app" and "Twitter app" have become popular and mean apps for those platforms. Not to dilute your efforts at all,…
petercooper on HN
Twuffer
From 1 comment
Sure, it's useful -- in fact, I really need to schedule tweets, but have been procrastinating in finding one. This post made me do the 3 second google search and I chose…
loumf on HN
Hootsuite
From 1 comment
Now I understand what it is, this seems like an interesting project. As a Buffer user, the way it's worded made me think it's an app for Buffer and I couldn't work out what it…
petercooper on HN