Needs more info for people who don't twitter. Perhaps a ussage case that is phrased without reference to twitter.
Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
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Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#82Needs more info for people who don't twitter. Perhaps a ussage case that is phrased without reference to twitter.
It's a tool to schedule tweets and easily view your tweet analytics, this app doesn't exist without Twitter.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#83I am divided. As a developer, I think open source is great. As an entrepreneur, having more people release stuff for free devalues my work on the long term. I would say a good middle ground would be that open source should only be used to provide tools to developers, not to release production features. A few years back, people would buy a software $25, now they complain when your app is over $1 (thanks Apple).
If you can't compete you lose. If someone can do it for free rethink your business model.
Why should people not release things simply because other people are unable to compete?
Plus, both of these rely on the free (as in beer) service twitter. twitter has been copied several times (app.net, rstat.us , identi.ca) yet it is still the power house.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#84This is such a small nitpick, but the rotating circle is very confusing to me. The shadow and the highlight rotate too, suggesting that the "light" is rotating with it. Feels really out of place.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#85You should auto shorten urls
+1 if connected to one's Bitly account/vanity URL
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it a shame?
Because it's not what the cool kids are using. I was at a conference where pud spoke. As for using a "startup" worthy language versus what you feel most comfortable in, he said (more or less a quote), "98% of all web sites fail, and yours probably will too, so might as use the language you want and are most productive in"
Indeed. You wouldn't want to risk compromising your fractal of failure by throwing a successful technical decision into the mix.
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...
I'm sorry... it was just too, too easy.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#87I don't think this is a threat to buffer. There are two components to the buffer business: 1) the software: this can be copied or re-implemented fairly easily (see this new project). Happens all the time. Almost every product has an open source clone. 2) the schlep: doing marketing, building a business, keep the servers humming, pay the bills, be available and respond to customers... The second part cannot be copied…
There's also the Buffer ecosystem; they have an iPhone app and they're already built-in as a sharing feature on many iOS & Android apps. It will take a while for Circular to match that. The more I look at what Buffer is doing, the more impressed I am.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#88A little suggestion for the homepage: Take away that circle and move up the feature boxes. That empty space in the middle adds absolutely nothing, and the queue number can be placed elsewhere.
Agreed, that space is wasted.
However 'infinity' is not a number. :P
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#89Any plans for mobile apps in the pipes?
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#90Circular 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…
Similar story here, I thought of writing a testing framework, somehow Testicle seemed as a funny name. Surprisingly it was already taken http://testicles.rubyforge.org/