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Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 10:58 PM UTC

reinhardt wrote: post #59

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And third-wave feminism flirted with post-structuralism..

You guys should stop poking fun at feminism and check your privilege m'kay?

no poking fun intended, merely a historical note that feminism (as a loosely-defined movement) had changing views about language and its use... if someone were to just hear about second-wave feminist stances on the language of oppression, they might have a hard time understanding things like the "slut walk" and other acts of linguistic reclamation.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by krickle » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 11:08 PM UTC

aymeric wrote: post #56

I am divided. As a developer, I think open source is great. As an entrepreneur, having more people release stuff for free devalues my work on the long term. I would say a good middle ground would be that open source should only be used to provide tools to developers, not to release production features. A few years back, people would buy a software $25, now they complain when your app is over $1 (thanks Apple).

FOSS is a wonder of the world. The idea that we can all run this stuff, read the source, and make changes is incredible. There is still plenty of opportunity to make money as a developer. If you have any skill at all, you should not feel threatened by a tweet scheduling app. And there's still software at $25 and up, even in the App Store. Just aim at a market that will pay for quality apps.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by XaspR8d » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 11:52 PM UTC

kyro wrote: post #63

A little suggestion for the homepage: Take away that circle and move up the feature boxes. That empty space in the middle adds absolutely nothing, and the queue number can be placed elsewhere.

I didn't remember what Buffer was, so for the first few moments I thought the circle was the feature. Show HN: a nice little CSS loopy thing for Bootstrap.

(Kudos to the team on the real project though - a lot more impressive!)

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by kowsik » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 11:59 PM UTC

julien_c wrote: post #2

Circular developer here. Ok, so last month I launched an open source clone of Buffer, built on top of Backbone, Bootstrap and MongoDB, and named Tampon. Many people hated the name... However, the app as well as the open source project have seen some nice early adoption, so I've gone ahead and chosen a less controversial one. I've also implemented multi-account support, which was by far the #1 feature request from use…

Very cool - just a few weeks ago, I spent two weekends (8 hours total) building https://www.delayed-tweets.com. Sinatra on Heroku + Stripe along with a bunch of gems to connect up to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It's mainly for my personal use right now, but awesome to see others having simliar needs to schedule and cross post social updates.

[edit] The "big" monthly cost for this project for me is primarily the SSL add-on. Everything else amounts to nothing since I have no long running dynos, even for resque.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by rodgerd » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 12:00 AM UTC

aymeric wrote: post #56

I am divided. As a developer, I think open source is great. As an entrepreneur, having more people release stuff for free devalues my work on the long term. I would say a good middle ground would be that open source should only be used to provide tools to developers, not to release production features. A few years back, people would buy a software $25, now they complain when your app is over $1 (thanks Apple).

In a world where developers at places like Amazon have been putting huge numbers of people out of work, and the tech industry cheers this as high-value disruption of moribund industries, developers who think they should be immune to the same forces are breathtaking in their arrogance.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by finnw » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 12:55 AM UTC

engtech wrote: post #15

julien_c wrote: post #2

Circular developer here. Ok, so last month I launched an open source clone of Buffer, built on top of Backbone, Bootstrap and MongoDB, and named Tampon. Many people hated the name... However, the app as well as the open source project have seen some nice early adoption, so I've gone ahead and chosen a less controversial one. I've also implemented multi-account support, which was by far the #1 feature request from use…

Good on you for renaming the project... but why would you chose that name in the first place? I'm not trying to start a flame war -- just curious because I've been in a similar situation. After university I named the first C unit test framework I wrote the oh-so-obvious C*NT. At the time I thought I was being funny, but over a decade later and I can see that this is a symptom of the underlying misogyny/"boy's club" t…

I wonder how many development tools (and presumably other products) have been less successful than they could have been because their creators picked "clever" or "catchy" names (not necessarily rude.)

For example I would not look forward to explaining to my boss why I had chosen something called "COWSEL", "MUMPS", "SPITBOL" or "ZOPL" for a new project.

Lisp and Subversion were lucky enough to reach critical mass, but I reckon the people who picked those names were taking the same risk.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by wamatt » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 12:58 AM UTC

julien_c wrote: post #2

Circular developer here. Ok, so last month I launched an open source clone of Buffer, built on top of Backbone, Bootstrap and MongoDB, and named Tampon. Many people hated the name... However, the app as well as the open source project have seen some nice early adoption, so I've gone ahead and chosen a less controversial one. I've also implemented multi-account support, which was by far the #1 feature request from use…

Pure awesomesauce! :) Congrats on name pivot, Circular is a great choice.

With regards to Buffer, a potential friction point I pointed out to the team earlier this year, was the inability to select:

Who? (Friends, Public, ) and

Where? (private message, private group, wall post) a message should go to.

This is standard functionality in the Facebook sharer app, for example. (http://imgur.com/HPsXU)

Of course, Buffer and Circular adds When? (eg temporal dimension) to the mix, but no app I know of, has implemented all three, leaving you with a tradeoff, if all of those are important to your social workflow.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by bravura » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 2:07 AM UTC

julien_c wrote: post #2

Circular developer here. Ok, so last month I launched an open source clone of Buffer, built on top of Backbone, Bootstrap and MongoDB, and named Tampon. Many people hated the name... However, the app as well as the open source project have seen some nice early adoption, so I've gone ahead and chosen a less controversial one. I've also implemented multi-account support, which was by far the #1 feature request from use…

You seriously need auto-link shortening built in.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by Evbn » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 3:53 AM UTC

finnw wrote: post #96

engtech wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good on you for renaming the project... but why would you chose that name in the first place? I'm not trying to start a flame war -- just curious because I've been in a similar situation. After university I named the first C unit test framework I wrote the oh-so-obvious C*NT. At the time I thought I was being funny, but over a decade later and I can see that this is a symptom of the underlying misogyny/"boy's club" t…

I wonder how many development tools (and presumably other products) have been less successful than they could have been because their creators picked "clever" or "catchy" names (not necessarily rude.) For example I would not look forward to explaining to my boss why I had chosen something called "COWSEL", "MUMPS", "SPITBOL" or "ZOPL" for a new project. Lisp and Subversion were lucky enough to reach critical mass, but…

Git, the stupid content tracker.

Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

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Post by mbetter » Thu, Nov 01, 2012, 4:31 AM UTC

aymeric wrote: post #56

I am divided. As a developer, I think open source is great. As an entrepreneur, having more people release stuff for free devalues my work on the long term. I would say a good middle ground would be that open source should only be used to provide tools to developers, not to release production features. A few years back, people would buy a software $25, now they complain when your app is over $1 (thanks Apple).

I buy three software at kiosk for five dollar, good deal?