Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

Post by webwanderings » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

Post by grumps » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:17 PM UTC

Post by julien_c » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:19 PM UTC

chanux wrote: post #11

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…

I was thinking this is the same thing as tampon until I saw tampon logo on the homepage and realized that tampon has changed the name. I didn't have much of an issue with the name but the change is sure for the good!

Post by julien_c » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:22 PM 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…

Post by webwanderings » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:23 PM UTC

heeton wrote: post #13

webwanderings wrote: post #12

I could never figure out how this Buffer thing works. Why is there a multiple time slots and why does it say Posting Schedule "every day"? Does this mean the app will send the same tweet repeatedly on the same time every day? Or how does the app choose which tweet to send at which time? This may sound like a support question but given that you have cloned a service hence buffer is probably popular already, but I beli…

I fill up my buffer with things I want to tweet, then every day at the specified times, it tweets the top item from that list. It doesn't send twice, and it's easier for me than scheduling every tweet.