Possibly of additional interest is a writeup of the tech stack powering faavorite.com which somebody submitted a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802872 :)
I have to give the faavoriteapp crew a big thumbs up vote. Excellent for those of us who use Twitter to track things & people we want to bookmark for later reference. Great design, use it often.
> a little Marketing brushup and you'll go a long way
This is where we’re struggling at the moment; we’re just a couple of devs on a hobbyist app right now. The next ‘sprint’ we’re hoping to dedicate to marketing and ideas and the like :)
Thanks! That’s a great question, we need to ponder that because faavorites do take up a lot of space because of all the other data they carry. Perhaps a toggle between all open and all closed…?
Also guys—anyone reading this who’s signed up—if you have any non-tech Twitter friends you might want to invite that’d be awesome! A quick glance over the site should tell you that the majority of users so far are web-dev types and we’d really like to diversify sooner rather than later!
We’re English so it’s hard to balance the two; we used ‘favorite’ as that’s what they’re called on Twitter but proper English has crept in in places. We’ll probably move over to all American–English at some point.
Sure thing, we can grab all of those (unless any were authored by a protected user).
EDIT: If you have a particularly large amount of favorites, faavorite will put you on a drip-feed import where we just grab them 200 at a time. This means you can still look around the app (or go make a coffee, or go to bed, or anything) and we’ll just grab them for you until we get all of them.
Oh boy, finally! I've been looking for a Twitter Favorites-manager for a long, long time. Glad finally someone is addressing the problem.
The overall usability is a bit weird (but based on your poll I wasn't the only one - 85% also said the same :)) but hey, it's already 10x better than any other alternative.
Hope you guys continue to develop the product and find creative ways to make a business out of it.
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This is where we’re struggling at the moment; we’re just a couple of devs on a hobbyist app right now. The next ‘sprint’ we’re hoping to dedicate to marketing and ideas and the like :)
Suggestion -- I can now only see 3 tweets on the screen (1920x1080), because of all extra buttons/text/tags. Is there a way to collapse ?
Cheers, Harry
Cheers! H
(http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/ize-ise-or-yse)
(http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/)
EDIT: If you have a particularly large amount of favorites, faavorite will put you on a drip-feed import where we just grab them 200 at a time. This means you can still look around the app (or go make a coffee, or go to bed, or anything) and we’ll just grab them for you until we get all of them.
The overall usability is a bit weird (but based on your poll I wasn't the only one - 85% also said the same :)) but hey, it's already 10x better than any other alternative.
Hope you guys continue to develop the product and find creative ways to make a business out of it.
H