[HN Gopher] I made a tool to explore X archives from any account
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I made a tool to explore X archives from any account
Author : Artzain
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-10-01 09:50 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tweetsearch.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (tweetsearch.co)
| Artzain wrote:
| I often found myself scrolling through Twitter trying to catch
| the significant moments and the come up from indie hackers,
| startup founders, or even successful artists. It was cumbersome
| and time-consuming, and I knew there had to be a better way.
| That's when I built TweetSearch.
|
| What began as a tool for my own use quickly evolved into
| something more: a way for all of us in the startup scene to get
| more from our favorite founders, whether it's Gary Tan, Brian
| Chesky, or others, and learn what they have shared over the
| years.
|
| Ideal for anyone in the startup community looking for
| inspiration, seeing the founder's story to the top, and
| discovering which tweets are top performers.
|
| Very keen to know your feedback on the tool or any suggestion you
| have!
| aguaviva wrote:
| Requires signup, meaning I'll never get to find out what it
| does and will completely forget about your post within seconds
| of submitting this helpful feedback to you.
| Artzain wrote:
| I actually had to make a signup to allow a free usage of the
| tool. If no signup, it can too easily be botted and my fees
| for results request would go through the roof.
|
| We have Google one-click signup though. Why is it such a
| painful process for you (genuinely curious to hear from you)
| aguaviva wrote:
| I'm not on Google, which must mean I don't matter to you
| and you don't want my business or my referrals anyway. As
| for why users hate having to sign up for something to just
| find out what it is:
|
| https://hn.algolia.com/?q=signup+required
|
| In more detail: because life is short, and most of these
| sites just aren't that great anyway. You may say it's one-
| click but the fact is users have been gaslit too many times
| by signups that require multiple interactions to plod
| through (from surveys to emails to ToS pages that of course
| no one has time to read). Again, just to find out what the
| site supposedly does or it's worth their time. After a
| point it's like, forget it, they're all guilty until proven
| innocent.
|
| The concern about bots is entirely understandable, and I
| don't have any immediate answers for you as I have no idea
| what the current space of countermeasures looks like these
| days, but it may be worth taking another look at. You might
| also consider a hybrid approach, that offers say 10 free
| searches before requiring a signup (so people can get feel
| for the UX, does it do what it says, is it responsive or is
| it another piece of React garbage, does it blast them with
| ads and popups, etc).
| Artzain wrote:
| First of all don't take it personally, I made Google
| signup to simplify the process of as many users as
| possible. We also have email signup with magic link and
| passwordless, proof that you matter :)
|
| And this is the only step, no further questions asked!
| For the 10 free searches that's a clever thought. But it
| still can be botted by using different browser sessions,
| vpns, proxies etc... Perhaps I'm being extra careful as
| well, but I heard some bad stories of bot attacks around
| me.
|
| Anyway I appreciate you taking the time to explain your
| thoughts!
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| Not having to hear from people like Gary Tan is a benefit of
| being off Twitter, not a reason to jump through ridiculous
| hoops to make the site usable.
| Artzain wrote:
| For some Gary Tan provides good insights, for others it
| doesn't. I'm sure you like to read some influential
| personalities. You could search for those ones instead with
| my tool :)
| leobg wrote:
| From the AI generated "best of" pages:
|
| > Elon Musk's Bold Support for Trump Amid Health Concerns
|
| This is after the assassination attempt.
| Artzain wrote:
| Absolutely! I've tried to make all the title & subtitles AI
| generated, some things still need to be polished :)
| scudsworth wrote:
| here's what i'm seeing: you ripped off an old popular twitter 3rd
| party site (2010's favstar), repurposed it as view-only (lol),
| slapped a bunch of garbage ai-generated content on it, are trying
| to charge a ridiculous amount of money for it, and your target
| user appears to be someone dumb enough to not know how to look up
| the right date search params on twitter
| Artzain wrote:
| That's called a wrapper, where we simplify UI and navigation
| for users :) From that cynical view, everything you use is
| kinda the same. Gmail is just a wrapper of IMAP/SMTP, ChatGPT
| just a wrapper of open source LLM and I can go endlessly on it
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