Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

Post by lmm » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:24 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 fudged71 » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:32 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.

Post by grimboy » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:35 PM UTC

lmm wrote: post #21

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…

Would you consider a project called DICK or COCK to be misogynistic too? Without wanting to start an argument, your example doesn't strike me as misogynistic; it doesn't seem like it would be any more offputting to women than to men, if we're assuming the same baseline personality.

Post by julien_c » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

usea wrote: post #26

I can't figure out what your site does (beyond "sharing tweets") by looking at it. I assume that information is hidden behind the login? I'm not going to sign in to a site just to figure out what it does, much less authenticate via another service. Is this so I can tweet a bunch in a short period, and the service will spread them out over the day? I seriously have no idea. Sorry if this comes across as rude, I don't…

Post by alexjarvis » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:39 PM UTC