Show HN: My weekend project: Twtspire

http://www.twtspire.com/

by kwellman • 15 years ago

73 26 15 years ago

kwellman3• 15 years ago

Twtspire uses the twitter search api to find tweets with key phrases like "I wish there was a site that..."

Hopefully it'll help give an idea of some of the things that people actually want, and inspire a weekend project or two.

I would love to hear some feedback.

kschua• 15 years ago

Great job. Could you perhaps add a feature where people could vote for a particular idea?

This could help those fishing for ideas get a feel of which are the ones which have a higher potential

AlexMcP• 15 years ago

What about a way to loop back, so when you make that sweet iOS app, @brenda25056 can know about it?

adrianwaj• 15 years ago

Had you seen http://twistori.com ?

pbhjpbhj2• 15 years ago

That's really nice, I like it better than the OP's page.

makethetick• 15 years ago

That's a great idea, I'm sure you can get quite a few good ideas if you watch it for long enough. Good job!

fooandbarify2• 15 years ago

Great idea! I like it a lot... sorry I can't be more helpful/critical but it's working nicely for me and it looks good! Well done.

fooandbarify2• 15 years ago

I decided to build one of these ideas - check out http://firstfan.me! (@wendyhk wished there was a site where you could record the time & date you discovered a certain band. I am in the middle of mid-terms and couldn't crank out the site just yet so I made a landing page and I'll put the site together in the coming week.)

seancron• 15 years ago

Great job! This could definitely be useful to find something people already want, especially if you could keep a tally of the most wished for ideas. What did you develop it in?

I also like the logo of the two birds talking. Did you make it yourself, or did you get it from somewhere?

One thing that I see could use a little improvement is the "next" and "previous" links. Right now they just blend in to the background. You should try making them stand out, and maybe make them look a bit more button-like. It would also be worth testing "next" and "previous" links on the top of the content.

kwellman3• 15 years ago

I wish I had the design chops to create a graphic of that quality...

I got it from http://iconfinder.com/. You can find lots of great graphics there for free (don't forget to check the licenses).

tourbillonfunk• 15 years ago

Cool idea!

If nothing else, some of the posts will make you laugh: "someone should make a site called wetpussies.org and upload nothing but videos/pictures of people giving their cat a bath. "

Great job, btw.

devtesla• 15 years ago

I love this. They seem to fall into a few categories: Silly and impossible, "I want a website to take my boredom away," and the mildly disturbing. Oh, and some not horrible ideas. thumbs up

leeHS• 15 years ago

This is great! Good job!

mortenjorck• 15 years ago

Feature idea: Add a "This is a good idea" button so users can vote up uncommon and plausible ones.

kwellman3• 15 years ago

Ok. I just implemented a quick and dirty voting mechanism that'll due for now.

It uses the reddit algorithm for calculating how "hot" a story is.

That was fun!

HardyLeung• 15 years ago

this is an excellent idea!

joefarish• 15 years ago

Good idea + looks great. I found a slight glitch and couldn't find a better way to contact you so here goes:

When I clicked like it went from a nice looking FB Like button to http://imgur.com/f5AID

acconrad• 15 years ago

nicely done hombre

MikeMakesIt• 15 years ago

Very cool idea

rome• 15 years ago

Awesome. Thanks!

pbhjpbhj2• 15 years ago

I read this as "twat spire" in en-GB: twat is a word somewhere between "pussy" and "cunt" in British English. Just FWIW. I guess you're not British?

memoryfault• 15 years ago

It's like that in en-US too. I also read it as "twat spire" :)

tzs• 15 years ago

Me too. I don't know if that means I have a dirty mind, or if I try to guess missing vowels in alphabetical order.

plainOldText• 15 years ago

Nice project. What language did you use? Python, Php, Ruby? and what framework? I'm just curious :)

drewp2• 15 years ago

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