Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by galuggus » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 7:59 AM UTC

Now on Producthunt.com

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by galuggus » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 8:00 AM UTC

jaquers wrote: post #52

Please bind mousewheel and arrow keys, thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. On the todo list

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by swyx » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 8:02 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #26

galuggus wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I'll put it on product hunt tomorrow

Does product hunt help at all? What's the objective and audience in posting there? Genuinely curious.

mostly a circlejrk with other hunters fake reviewing a product they haven't used and half of these things will be dead in a year. everything about PH screams fake.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by bzb4 » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 9:41 AM UTC

It would be cool if this was made into an actual app so scrolling would work properly

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by macieklaskus » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 10:01 AM UTC

This could be a real product if it sourced from specific clusters. For example, NBA Twitter.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by njsubedi » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 10:22 AM UTC

nsomaru wrote: post #67

Scaevolus wrote: post #55

This really makes you appreciate how much higher quality TikTok videos are than Twitter! (no account/app needed-- https://www.tiktok.com/foryou )

Unfortunately that makes me download the app. Firefox for iOS

For me it’s only the banner prompt at the bottom of the page.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by samblr » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 10:26 AM UTC

9nGQluzmnq3M wrote: post #4

Built by HNer galuggus, who mentioned this deep in another thread. Give him some karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24095821

This is pretty cool. Well done galuggus.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by genericacct » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 10:55 AM UTC

ehsankia wrote: post #63

blisseyGo wrote: post #47

Slightly related but some Redditor "created a NSFW TikTok clone, with just portait-mode porn gifs, some with sound. (works best on mobile)": https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/enn048/i_creat...

These are neat, but in my mind, TikTok is far more about the ForYou algorithm than the fact that it's a scrolling feed of videos. The latter is fairly easy to do, as showcased by this very thread. Any decent engineer can throw together a demo like this fairly easily. TikTok's huge success though seems to be due to how good it is at predicting what people will like, which is something that even Youtube struggles to so…

The algo has been failing pretty bad; "hide videos from this user" does not work anymore, i suspect it can only deal with a limited number of ignores. Last summer I did an experiment, tapping "not interested" on any food-related video (I was on a diet) and yet i kept being shown food videos.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by morsch » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 11:04 AM UTC

Scaevolus wrote: post #55

This really makes you appreciate how much higher quality TikTok videos are than Twitter! (no account/app needed-- https://www.tiktok.com/foryou )

I just got an endless stream of incredibly boring garbage. Gave the algorithm some feedback to tune it to my interests, but there's nothing there for me. I guess now I know what the fuss is about though.

Re: Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok

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Post by thisismyswamp » Sun, Aug 09, 2020, 11:06 AM UTC

morsch wrote: post #79

Scaevolus wrote: post #55

This really makes you appreciate how much higher quality TikTok videos are than Twitter! (no account/app needed-- https://www.tiktok.com/foryou )

I just got an endless stream of incredibly boring garbage. Gave the algorithm some feedback to tune it to my interests, but there's nothing there for me. I guess now I know what the fuss is about though.

You're an intellectual