Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

#1

Post by gumbah » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 11:17 AM UTC

We launched http://futuretweets.com the day before yesterday. It's a small Twitter app build in Django that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future or send a reoccuring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.

I'm really interested in what you guys think of it (design, functionality etc)

Cheers! J

Re: Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

#2

Post by davidw » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 11:31 AM UTC

Might it get you banned from twitter if you're not careful?

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#3

Post by bigbang » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 11:48 AM UTC

Good idea. Thought of the same

Although I thought sendible.com which also does this was more comprehensive in this arena.

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#4

Post by gumbah » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 11:56 AM UTC

davidw wrote: post #2

Might it get you banned from twitter if you're not careful?

Whoops! Haven't thought of that... you mean they have a limit on their API use?

Might have to build in a schedule-tweet-maximum then...

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#5

Post by gumbah » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 11:57 AM UTC

bigbang wrote: post #3

Good idea. Thought of the same Although I thought sendible.com which also does this was more comprehensive in this arena.

Didn't know Sendible... looks like they've taken the concept to the max. Interesting! Thanks for the link

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#6

Post by markessien » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 12:03 PM UTC

gumbah wrote: post #5

bigbang wrote: post #3

Good idea. Thought of the same Although I thought sendible.com which also does this was more comprehensive in this arena.

Didn't know Sendible... looks like they've taken the concept to the max. Interesting! Thanks for the link

Don't let the existence of sedible discourage you. They are too wide in focus, while you are smaller in focus and you have a better chance of getting more tweeter users than sendible.

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#7

Post by pt » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 12:40 PM UTC

this is neat, i just used it on MAKE for a daily sub code discount. i'd like to have a feature where it can do a count down... for example each day the tweet could say...

there X number of days until Y ... blah blah

handy for events and other things i'd use it for.

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#8

Post by joshsharp » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 12:54 PM UTC

Nice looking site! However you also have competition from http://tweetlater.com. I hear that's what most people use for scheduling tweets at the moment.

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#9

Post by ryanmahoski » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 1:40 PM UTC

   "have an alibi..."

...that ends in "sent from Future Tweets."

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#10

Post by ivankirigin » Thu, Oct 30, 2008, 2:26 PM UTC

gumbah wrote: post #4

davidw wrote: post #2

Might it get you banned from twitter if you're not careful?

Whoops! Haven't thought of that... you mean they have a limit on their API use? Might have to build in a schedule-tweet-maximum then...

I think the API limit is once per limit per account. So if an account has multiple tools accessing the API, it is easy to overschedule. I would put a sanity check in both your update rate and the amount you let people schedule. Don't become a twitter-DOS scheduling system :)