CtrlTwit
Productivity
social automation
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 11 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Idea: 1 for, 8 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Well executed product and clear presentation
From 2 comments
Nice product, well executed. Reminds me of IMified a few years back. If you want to build something similar yourself for your own app, it's very easy with the Wit API [1] [1]…
ar7hur on HNCool product and congratulations on launching. I kind of had a similar idea but never got round to building it. What would put me off is the fact that I'd be cluttering up the…
pattle on HN
Interesting, novel idea
From 2 comments
Interesting product
pmcpinto on HNI built something more general months ago[0], but I found that using twitter to send commands adds a fair bit of overhead and noise to your twitter stream which is annoying. It's…
K0nserv on HN
Objections
Clutters followers' timelines with private commands
From 4 comments
Seems really interesting but not a huge fan of filling other peoples timelines with my Tweets controlling things. Or am I missing something?
TheTechBox on HNThis reminded me directly of some mIRC Scripts. For example, if you had to change your nick, instead of using the private command `/nick newnick`, the script will give you a…
wut42 on HNCool product and congratulations on launching. I kind of had a similar idea but never got round to building it. What would put me off is the fact that I'd be cluttering up the…
pattle on HNThis just seems like a good way to annoy your followers.
EnderC on HN
Not saving time over using the service directly
From 2 comments
It's a good idea but it's easier to click the link and do the action manually instead of typing the text and click reply. So there is absolutely no gain for me in using your…
philipp-spiess on HNCool product and congratulations on launching. I kind of had a similar idea but never got round to building it. What would put me off is the fact that I'd be cluttering up the…
pattle on HN
Security risk of public tweets triggering paid actions like stock trades
Requests
Support direct messages instead of public tweets
From 3 comments
Yes. Me too (hence the comparision with IRC/mIRC Scripts). However this kind of communication is just purely personal, I doubt anyone is interested in the fact that some friend…
wut42 on HNStill though, surely all of this could be done over DMs?
untog on HNCool product and congratulations on launching. I kind of had a similar idea but never got round to building it. What would put me off is the fact that I'd be cluttering up the…
pattle on HN
Questions
Whether similar past products exist
From 1 comment
I believe there was a similar product that did pretty much the same thing 3-4 years ago. Would anyone recall? What happened to them? I don't know if I would like controlling my…
belze_72 on HN
Legality of using other companies' logos
From 1 comment
Out of topic, your page include logos of other large companies such as Linkedin, Dropbox, Instagram, is that legal? You can do that while they are not your customers/clients?…
paukiatwee on HN
Alternatives named
IFTTT
From 1 comment
Maybe IFTTT can react to specific tweets.
thu on HN
Hubot
From 1 comment
Reminds me of Hubot http://hubot.github.com/ I suppose you could also use twitter DMs for notifications from services.
fudged71 on HN
IMified
From 1 comment
IMified? Was acquired by Voxeo in 2009. Was the same kind of tool, but on IM networks rather than Twitter.
ar7hur on HN
twicmd
From 1 comment
I built something more general months ago[0], but I found that using twitter to send commands adds a fair bit of overhead and noise to your twitter stream which is annoying. It's…
K0nserv on HN