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Show HN: We launched Pinstagram for iPad

17 points by shiftb ↗ HN
Just over a month ago we built Pinstagram / http://www.pinstagram.co - it's a web viewer for Instagram that uses the waterfall layout to display your photos.

Today we're launching Pinstagram for iPad. It's completely native and exposes the same functionality as the webapp.

Please, let us know what you think: http://bit.ly/pinstapad

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kanamekun
Pinstagram is a wonderful site and I use it all the time to view my wife's Instagram photos!

But are you guys worried at all that the name infringes on Instagram's trademark? It's one thing to rebrand a website, but it's a lot harder to rebrand an iOS app.

Or maybe you guys are already talking to Instagram and/or Facebook about joining their team, and they're ok with you using the TM in the meantime?

parfe
Did someone challenge you to see how many trademarks you can cram into a single name?
christopherslee
awesome! way to go guys. props for shipping something so that you can iterate.

where do you think you are going with this? is this just a hackathon turned into a nighttime hobby? or do you think you can build a real business out of this.

consumer facing stuff always scares me because it always seems like a hail mary to find a business model.

wushupork
Pinstagram pixel pusher here, right now we're just focused on building something useful and solving some pain points that we are hearing from our users.
jsavimbi
What, if any, API are you using to interface with Pinterest?
shiftb
We aren't using an API to interface with Pinterest. It's just posting to the same url the pin bookmarklet does.
jsavimbi
Roger. That's the same reverse engineering that other people are doing, thanks.
AznHisoka
I did some research about automating pinning yesterday. If you take a look at their "Pin it" buttons you'll see it just does a POST request to a URL. Just do the same POST request.
fooandbarify
Cross-domain POST is not possible with all browsers (I presume IE is the main culprit, as usual).
dr42
Why horizontal layout only, I never use that orientation.

The scrolling is a deal breaker for me, no smooth scroll, it's all flicker/jerky. iPad 3. I'm assuming it's just a wrapper around the web view. The buttons to like and comment are too small to hit with any accuracy.

It's still better than the iPhone only app that I have to 2x.

creativeone
Sent you an email re: tap2print app monetization