This is a terribly disconnected pitch… At least for me. I instantly clicked because I’m literally building a replacement to do exactly this for my personal website. So far so good, love the concept, page looks good, can’t tell if I can use my own domain, surely there’s some info, hunt around tor several minutes bouncing between a modal blocked write your tweets here demo page and the threads as blog demo page, no “more info”, no FAQ, no answer to my question, so I’ve bounced in frustration. I’m not putting your domain as my website and I’m sick of using CloudFlare trick redirects to point people to Twitter directly as well, so it’s a “looks nice, but sorry, no sale, you clearly don’t fit my needs” from me.
Good luck though. Seemed like a polished flow that pushed your thread writing tool well, I just have zero need for that, at all, ever, cause I could just automate that with one of the many CLI Twitter tools and a few lines of bash script or Python if I wanted to put some extra polish on it.
Honestly appreciate the feedback. I think we have a few things to address, but especially these two:
- Make our "pitch" better adding more info on our login modal, especially on what exact feature set to expect, and what's behind a paid Pro plan (the Profiles feature is completely free though)
- We definitely need to add custom domain support to Profiles, but it was just out of scope for the MVP. I'd love to have it myself, it's high on our list.
At first I thought this would be a service which takes your Twitter profile and turns it into a website with a CMS backend, which sounds like a great idea for anyone who wants to escape Twitter but doesn't have the tech savvy to set up a website and migrate all their old content on their own.
I guess it's not exactly that though, it... creates a profile on typefully.com that mirrors your Twitter account?
Hello, I love that idea, but at this time we want to make the product focused on the experience of Twitter creators, so we feel like it makes sense you make you publish on Twitter and on your Typefully Profile simultaneously.
So yes, it mirrors the content, but you control your Typefully Profile and you get an RSS Feed that you can plug anywhere.
That being said, this is just version 1.0 of Profiles, and we'd love to give users even more control, and possibly allow to publish directly to their Typefully Profile, or export their content easily to other platforms as well.
That's true. The core difference here is that Typefully will unroll your threads and you can set a title, so in RSS readers they will show as proper blog posts.
Does Typefully support drafting elsewhere and pasting into your editor? I'm working on a twitter fiction experiment that makes use of pretty long (100+ tweet) threads and I write my drafts in Scrivener. The ability to paste in a bunch of delimited text, and to delete entire previous threads would be amazing.
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Hi, Typefully was born as a simple web-based text editor with a preview of how your text will look on Twitter.
While we added many features to empower Twitter creators, at the core it's still a thread writing app, and now users can publish their threads as "unrolled" blog posts.
What makes it fundamentally different is that it's the Typefully user that decides to unroll their posts and share them, and they can preview the unrolled version while writing, so it's optimized for this use case.
techdragon|4 years ago
Good luck though. Seemed like a polished flow that pushed your thread writing tool well, I just have zero need for that, at all, ever, cause I could just automate that with one of the many CLI Twitter tools and a few lines of bash script or Python if I wanted to put some extra polish on it.
linuz90|4 years ago
- Make our "pitch" better adding more info on our login modal, especially on what exact feature set to expect, and what's behind a paid Pro plan (the Profiles feature is completely free though) - We definitely need to add custom domain support to Profiles, but it was just out of scope for the MVP. I'd love to have it myself, it's high on our list.
apatters|4 years ago
I guess it's not exactly that though, it... creates a profile on typefully.com that mirrors your Twitter account?
linuz90|4 years ago
So yes, it mirrors the content, but you control your Typefully Profile and you get an RSS Feed that you can plug anywhere.
That being said, this is just version 1.0 of Profiles, and we'd love to give users even more control, and possibly allow to publish directly to their Typefully Profile, or export their content easily to other platforms as well.
zaik|4 years ago
linuz90|4 years ago
i67vw3|4 years ago
weeksie|4 years ago
I realize it's probably not your typical use case
frankdilo|4 years ago
You can paste any plaintext in our editor and it will be split into tweets. Just put 4 newlines between one tweet and the next.
JonathanBeuys|4 years ago
frankdilo|4 years ago
Profiles could use a subset of permissions, but we prefer to keep things simple and have a unified login flow.
tomjen3|4 years ago
For some reason lots of people would rather write a 10 or 20 post thread than a blog post and Twitter is terrible at that.
ushakov|4 years ago
https://threadreaderapp.com
linuz90|4 years ago
While we added many features to empower Twitter creators, at the core it's still a thread writing app, and now users can publish their threads as "unrolled" blog posts.
What makes it fundamentally different is that it's the Typefully user that decides to unroll their posts and share them, and they can preview the unrolled version while writing, so it's optimized for this use case.
Hope this answers your question.