Show HN: First ever made Vine web client

http://www.vineclient.com

by yolosolo • 13 years ago

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nwalter08• 13 years ago

Why an extension?

bcjordan• 13 years ago

I imagine so you can then have users make Vine private API calls directly (making it harder for Vine to detect and shut down).

xSwag• 13 years ago

Vine in the domain name is the fastest way to get a C&D letter.

BorisMelnik• 13 years ago

or an acquisition :-)

yolosolo14• 13 years ago

I agree! I highly doubt they would acquire VineClient, however the whole C&D thing is a bit far fetched. They have no grounds to send a C&D, those are all public endpoints that I'm using. If they wanted their content to be so secure, then perhaps they should have went a more secure way other than using HTTP as protocol of communication. But no, usually people take the easy route and that's why people like me are able to create things like VineClient.

salemh2• 13 years ago

"Show HN: Buy Amazon gift cards with Bitcoins" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358580

Advice: change name in domain.

Result: "AmazonBitcoins shut down by Amazon" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404232

Soooo yeah, companies have things called "trademarks" and "copyrights"... you can't just go putting another company's name inside your company's name, and then make your imagery the same as theirs, without their lawyers sending you a strongly worded C&D. However I don't see why this would have to shut down based on that -- why not restart under a new, distinct name and branding?

Though you don't seem to be using Vine imagery... why wait for the inevitable?

yolosolo14• 13 years ago

I'll wait, I'm not gonna shut down with a strongly worded C&D. And besides, I don't believe Vine is aware of VineClient at the moment, this is being blown way out of proportion.

robotfelix• 13 years ago

It doesn't seem to have been a problem for http://vine-videos.com

They're ranking 2nd on Google for the term 'vine', and even have the Vine logo as their favicon and next to their listing!

yolosolo14• 13 years ago

Exactly, people here need to take a chill pill. There's no money in play here. Twitter / Vine have other fish to fry.

localuser• 13 years ago

Very neat, I'm impressed. But your extension asks permission for data on all sites, if you'd limit that to vine only it'd be great.

Shameless plug; I made http://vinetuber.com/ a while ago but I think vine is limiting me.

loceng2• 13 years ago

Limiting you in what way?

yolosolo14• 13 years ago

I had to make an extension because it acts as a blocker so I can modify the request headers before the request is sent to emulate the mobile app. Also, I need access to all data because of the cross-origin requests. Also, I needed all the requests to come directly from the user and not my server, as it would get banned probably. It literally emulates using your phone.

corin_• 13 years ago

Are you able to hijack the registration process also? A couple of days ago I had my first ever desire to upload a vine for Twitter, but being a Blackberry user I can't do a thing.

yolosolo14• 13 years ago

Yes, I can do registrations. I did not include the registration on there for the simple fact that I didn't want users to abuse the registration form.

pswilson142• 13 years ago

Heads up - the formatting on the page is kind of screwy. The bottom 2 buttons are partially obscured by the white bar on the bottom of the screen, and I'm not able to scroll down and reveal them. I'm on Chrome v 31 on Xubuntu.

Just an FYI :)

yolosolo14• 13 years ago

I just fixed that, my bad. Your resolution must be extremely low.

pswilson142• 13 years ago

1366x768, looks good now!

drakaal• 13 years ago

Vine in the name so likely they will get you for trademarks.

Not a first ever, a few others have made clients and had them shut down, or severely throttled on requests per day. So you may or may not be the "only" for today, but that won't last.

I don't mean to be a total downer I'm sure it was hard work, but basically you built a sand castle on the beach at low tide and in a few hours the tide will come in and wash it away.

yolosolo14• 13 years ago

They can't throttle the access as the requests are made client side. It's the same as if you were using your smartphone to access vine except on a web browser. None of the content goes through my server, the only thing that is served by my server is the PHP that holds it all together and the JS.

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