Show HN: Turn your tweets/threads into a blog and RSS feed

This is a terribly disconnected pitch… At least for me. I instantly clicked because I’m literally building a replacement to do exactly this for my personal website. So far so good, love the concept, page looks good, can’t tell if I can use my own domain, surely there’s some info, hunt around tor several minutes bouncing between a modal blocked write your tweets here demo page and the threads as blog demo page, no “more info”, no FAQ, no answer to my question, so I’ve bounced in frustration. I’m not putting your domain as my website and I’m sick of using CloudFlare trick redirects to point people to Twitter directly as well, so it’s a “looks nice, but sorry, no sale, you clearly don’t fit my needs” from me.

Good luck though. Seemed like a polished flow that pushed your thread writing tool well, I just have zero need for that, at all, ever, cause I could just automate that with one of the many CLI Twitter tools and a few lines of bash script or Python if I wanted to put some extra polish on it.

thanks for explanation

based on the materials i didn’t realize you’re also a tweet-writing app

instead i understood the product as a tweet-preview service

maybe you should make clear that typefully is a twitter publishing tool while showing both the editing and the preview capabilities on your marketing page

I get my twitter feeds from nitter. Works pretty good. Eg., https://nitter.net/jack/rss

Glad to know it’s high on the list. I’d personally be happy paying a small surcharge for it. I’ve looked at making whatever I end up building to solve this need for myself into some kind of SaaS and I’m aware how much of a PITA user provided domains can be with regards to SSL certificates, so I’m not at all surprised it didn’t make the cut on your otherwise nicely polished MVP. (Automatically merging thread / multiple posts definitely isn’t on my own MVP haha)

I hope my feedback didn’t come across too brutal. I’ve just been looking for good replacements for Syte2 as a personal feed aggregator since Atlas mongodb got dropped from the heroku free tier (cause of the mongodb inc buyout) neatly 2 years ago and their and Syte3 got way too complicated with the lambda and dynamo and too much JavaScript for me thanks… I’ve been slowly building my own replacement for literally years since a redirect to Twitter solves 80% of my need (other than visual branding and control) so whenever I come across a product that might solve this, I charge forth eager to hand over money if it’s a good fit, since I know it’s hard work, except every damn one either isn’t ready, is abandoned, is a bespoke enterprise social engagement platform that wants you to “talk to us for pricing. It’s slowly building up a layer of cynicism that’s probably leaking out into how harshly I judge any new product I come across at this point.

But like I said, it is a polished flow to your primary product which looks good but I just have no need for and I’m just a picky customer for your new feature with a specific need you don’t support (yet). The world needs more products to pull some control back from the major social platforms, even if it’s only control over presentation!