Sounds like a missed opportunity for a bot then... It is not like you are really personalizing the message at all. The only human part of this would be deciding which photo to use to entice the developer. (Could this be optimized by a bot and A/B testing?)
I agree with the other comments that this is a useful feature, but would be more well suited for a customized twitter account with a name explaining it better.
the idea of a bot is intriguing, but right now I'm manually finding founders contact info, reaching out, getting them in the system, asking them Q+A's on producthunt.com, cc'ing other relevant players in the convo, and following up with them to see how PH influenced their traffic and how we can help (which, again, founders respond gratefully for all the free traffic)
If anyone has suggestions for ways to automate part of this, as it takes a long time, i'm open!
btipling|11 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8032837
I hope you're not going to continue to do that. I get you're hustling, but this isn't the right way to do this.
> Not one person has said "Spam".
I marked the tweet as spam via the report the tweet feature, I don't know if people usually actually reply as "this is spam."
crazypyro|11 years ago
I agree with the other comments that this is a useful feature, but would be more well suited for a customized twitter account with a name explaining it better.
erikto|11 years ago
If anyone has suggestions for ways to automate part of this, as it takes a long time, i'm open!