Show HN: We made an app for managing your Twitter favorites

[guiambros]

Oh boy, finally! I've been looking for a Twitter Favorites-manager for a long, long time. Glad finally someone is addressing the problem.

The overall usability is a bit weird (but based on your poll I wasn't the only one - 85% also said the same :)) but hey, it's already 10x better than any other alternative.

Hope you guys continue to develop the product and find creative ways to make a business out of it.

[csswizardry]

Thanks for the great comment! We’re really excited about faavorite and we’re thrilled to have you on board :D

H

[csswizardry]

Also guys—anyone reading this who’s signed up—if you have any non-tech Twitter friends you might want to invite that’d be awesome! A quick glance over the site should tell you that the majority of users so far are web-dev types and we’d really like to diversify sooner rather than later!

Cheers, Harry

[svolinsky]

Great App! I favorite tweets for reading them later, but with the tagging, seems like I can expand on that.

Suggestion -- I can now only see 3 tweets on the screen (1920x1080), because of all extra buttons/text/tags. Is there a way to collapse ?

[csswizardry]

Thanks! That’s a great question, we need to ponder that because faavorites do take up a lot of space because of all the other data they carry. Perhaps a toggle between all open and all closed…?

[mikecane]

Your site is claiming I have 792 Favorites (Twitter won't enumerate). Will all those be able to import?

[csswizardry]

Sure thing, we can grab all of those (unless any were authored by a protected user).

EDIT: If you have a particularly large amount of favorites, faavorite will put you on a drip-feed import where we just grab them 200 at a time. This means you can still look around the app (or go make a coffee, or go to bed, or anything) and we’ll just grab them for you until we get all of them.

[paynedigital]

Possibly of additional interest is a writeup of the tech stack powering faavorite.com which somebody submitted a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802872 :)

[maxw3st]

I have to give the faavoriteapp crew a big thumbs up vote. Excellent for those of us who use Twitter to track things & people we want to bookmark for later reference. Great design, use it often.

[shanehudson]

I am quite a regular user of faavorite, it gives me a reason to favourite tweets which beforehand was pretty useless!

[stevederico]

not to be a jerk, but organize is spelt incorrectly in your title tag. should be 'organize' not 'organise'

[DanBC]

-ize or -ise are often style matters and not spelling errors.

(http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/ize-ise-or-yse)

(http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/03/ize-or-ise/)

[csswizardry]

We’re English so it’s hard to balance the two; we used ‘favorite’ as that’s what they’re called on Twitter but proper English has crept in in places. We’ll probably move over to all American–English at some point.

Cheers! H

[zackattack]

Really Cool! . a little Marketing brushup and you'll go a long way.!

[csswizardry]

Thank you!

> a little Marketing brushup and you'll go a long way

This is where we’re struggling at the moment; we’re just a couple of devs on a hobbyist app right now. The next ‘sprint’ we’re hoping to dedicate to marketing and ideas and the like :)