I don't have a twitter account to log in.
Then the app would probably be of little use to you anyways :)
True I signed up for Buffer but never used as I am not into social networking.
Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
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Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
You guys should stop poking fun at feminism and check your privilege m'kay?
no poking fun intended, merely a historical note that feminism (as a loosely-defined movement) had changing views about language and its use... if someone were to just hear about second-wave feminist stances on the language of oppression, they might have a hard time understanding things like the "slut walk" and other acts of linguistic reclamation.
Kinda glad that my sarcasm went mostly undetected, otherwise it would have been downvoted to oblivion.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#103Circular 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…
Pure awesomesauce! :) Congrats on name pivot, Circular is a great choice. With regards to Buffer, a potential friction point I pointed out to the team earlier this year, was the inability to select: Who? (Friends, Public, ) and Where? (private message, private group, wall post) a message should go to. This is standard functionality in the Facebook sharer app, for example. ( http://imgur.com/HPsXU ) Of course, Buffer…
There was a scheduler app for FriendFeed (ffscheduler.com), did all three. It was made by @alpb (ahmetalpbalkan.com).
I'm thinking about forking and adding that features to Circular. Need to add Facebook support to it first though. No promises.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#104I 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).
Don't fall into the same trap as the recording industries did, which is to assume that your market model will stay the same for ever. It won't, and developers don't tend to have the same lobbying power to get new laws to try and cling onto their old model.
Go with the flow and find other ways to monetize your skills.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#105Why does it have to be such a blatant steal of the Buffer design?
Being 'inspired' to produce a similar (but open) service is a fairly noble goal, but slavishly imitating the UI is bad form, surely? You should have called it 'Blue Buffer'.
Re: Show HN: Circular, an open source clone of Buffer
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
So open source should serve you as a developer, but not those others that are mere users?
If it serves developers it serves users as well. You can produce more, faster, cheaper which is good for users.
Sure, and open source products serve users even better (assuming a certain quality)