Ask HN: What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com

[gumbah]

We launched http://futuretweets.com the day before yesterday. It's a small Twitter app build in Django that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future or send a reoccuring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.

I'm really interested in what you guys think of it (design, functionality etc)

Cheers! J

[joshsharp]

Nice looking site! However you also have competition from http://tweetlater.com. I hear that's what most people use for scheduling tweets at the moment.

[davidw]

Might it get you banned from twitter if you're not careful?

[gumbah → davidw]

Whoops! Haven't thought of that... you mean they have a limit on their API use?

Might have to build in a schedule-tweet-maximum then...

[ivankirigin → gumbah]

I think the API limit is once per limit per account. So if an account has multiple tools accessing the API, it is easy to overschedule. I would put a sanity check in both your update rate and the amount you let people schedule. Don't become a twitter-DOS scheduling system :)

[gumbah → ivankirigin]

Good idea... Thanks!

[avinashv]

Typo on http://futuretweets.com/account/signup/:

> No problem, changes are you already have an OpenID url.

...should probably have "chances".

I dig the design.

[gumbah → avinashv]

Thanks! I fixed the typo :)

[ryanmahoski]

   "have an alibi..."

...that ends in "sent from Future Tweets."

[gumbah → ryanmahoski]

You can actually turn that off. It's a preference on your account settings page, and you can override that per scheduled tweet... :)

[ryanmahoski → gumbah]

Interesting. So what does it say when you override it? "From web"? Isn't that hard to accomplish via API?

[gumbah → ryanmahoski]

It indeed says "From web", which is the standard if you don't provide a source parameter to the API. So it's not that hard :)

[alex_c]

Aw. Just based on the title, I thought it was an app that lets you guess possible future tweets, and alerts you when anyone actually tweets your guess.

That could be fun too :)

[gumbah → alex_c]

Haha that's pretty cool as well! Like an automated Twitter guessing game! :)

[bigbang]

Good idea. Thought of the same

Although I thought sendible.com which also does this was more comprehensive in this arena.

[gumbah → bigbang]

Didn't know Sendible... looks like they've taken the concept to the max. Interesting! Thanks for the link

[markessien → gumbah]

Don't let the existence of sedible discourage you. They are too wide in focus, while you are smaller in focus and you have a better chance of getting more tweeter users than sendible.

[bigbang → markessien]

I agree. They have less than 9K registered users so far. I bet theres a whole lot of ppl who want to schedule thier tweats. Your strong point is that you do it only for twitter.

[senthil_rajasek]

Hmmm are people actually ok with giving out their twitter account password to a third party site?

[kirubakaran → senthil_rajasek]

People give their bank passwords to mint.com etc!

[pt]

this is neat, i just used it on MAKE for a daily sub code discount. i'd like to have a feature where it can do a count down... for example each day the tweet could say...

there X number of days until Y ... blah blah

handy for events and other things i'd use it for.