Tipjoy (YC W08) now allows payments via Twitter

halo wrote: post #3

I'm sure this wasn't 'inspired' by twitpay.me at all, released and announced here 15 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369568 )

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so we at Twitpay are taking it as a compliment.

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Post by calambrac » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 11:34 PM UTC

smahend wrote: post #4

"inspired" is probably not the right word. i think directly stolen from twitpay is probably better

"Stolen", really? It's business, not super friendly fun time. Competition happens.

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Post by webwright » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 11:36 PM UTC

smahend wrote: post #4

"inspired" is probably not the right word. i think directly stolen from twitpay is probably better

Yet another reason on the long list of why execution matters a helluva lot more than the idea, especially when it comes to easy/simple ideas.

I'm not convinced it was "stolen", and I think it's pretty crappy of you to suggest that it was unless you know something the rest of us don't.

TipJoy almost certainly has a product roadmap of some kind. Theoretically it's possible that they pushed what they were in the middle of aside 15 days ago to attack this and managed to get it done and launched by today... But I think it's just as likely that they were already working on it.

Even if they DID steal it from Twitpay, the idea certainly didn't originate there. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/how-twitter-will-be-worth... (from June)

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Post by webwright » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 11:43 PM UTC

halo wrote: post #3

I'm sure this wasn't 'inspired' by twitpay.me at all, released and announced here 15 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369568 )

Which in turn, I'm sure wasn't inspired by this post here (June):

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/how-twitter-will-be-worth...

Or maybe it came from one of the 1.2 million pages that has the phrase "twitter and payment" somewhere in it but no mention of twitpay:

http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+payment+-twitpay

Or inspired by TextPayMe, which did the exact same thing with phone numbers instead of twitter usernames?

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/0-blog-pics/textpayme-welcome.p...

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Post by mattmaroon » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 11:44 PM UTC

Nice feature. I would use this if I frequented Twitter. I have sick friends who would throw money around like that for fun though.

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Post by mattmaroon » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 11:44 PM UTC

halo wrote: post #3

I'm sure this wasn't 'inspired' by twitpay.me at all, released and announced here 15 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369568 )

I would imagine a feature like this would take more than 15 days to go from concept to launch, though perhaps not. They are a startup.