Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer

Post by tommoor » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:44 PM UTC

Post by josegonzalez » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:49 PM UTC

alexjarvis wrote: post #29

Shame it's written in PHP

Post by rglover » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:54 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 aaronblohowiak » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 5:57 PM UTC

grimboy wrote: post #25

lmm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Second wave feminists decided that that word in particular was bad no matter the context.

Post by bwtk » Wed, Oct 31, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

fredoliveira wrote: post #36

tommoor wrote: post #31

Just as a fun comparison we currently have 235,600 updates in the queue at Buffer :-)

That sounds like not a great twitter/facebook feed you're managing with buffer, no? Do people care about the feed, if it's generic enough to warrant 200k+ queued posts?