Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy

Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by jeffclark on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:21AM (#2004616)

Twitter.com + Proxlet Chrome Extension = No more foursquare updates. No more annoying conference live-tweets. No more Brett Favre speculation.

It's so great. I want to give it a hug.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by aaronwhite on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:42AM (#2004270)

We were tired of the noise on Twitter (noisy apps, lame content, erratic but otherwise valuable tweeters), so we decided to fix it. Proxlet is a Twitter API Proxy that runs scripts to modify the Twitter experience. Works with Twitter for iPhone, TweetDeck, and any other client that supports custom API URLs, including a 1-click install Chrome Extension for Twitter.com

What do you think? Right approach? (@aaronwhite & @ChrisRicca)

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by mcantelon on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:17AM (#2004604)

Nice job! A couple questions... Is there a way to manage mutes (so you can unmute something that's been muted forever, for example)? Also, if I do mutes, etc., on one computer's Proxlet will they also take effect on another computer I use the Proxlet extension on?

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by aaronwhite on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:50AM (#2008052)

Proxlet manages all your settings at Proxlet.com, so if you use multiple Proxlet enabled clients, all your settings will be shared. In terms of unmuting, you can go to Proxlet.com and mute someone for "1 minute" and that will effectively un-mute them. We'll be adding a far more obvious method both on the website and in the extension soon.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by jdunck on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:53PM (#2006299)

I had this same frustration and same implementation idea -- proxy is awesome because any client can easily gain features by a checkbox pref "Use proxlet".

I never pursued it because I wasn't sure how I could sustain it -- I asked my heavy-twitter friends about it. They all agreed it sounded like a good idea, but none of them thought they'd be willing to pay for it.

Have you done any market research, or are you just doing it for fun for now?

Anyway, I'm happy to see it. Where's the paypal donate button?

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by aaronwhite on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:52AM (#2008057)

We did it to scratch our own itch primarily. It also gave me an excuse to play w/ the Twitter API and lots of really interesting technology (full blog post on how Proxlet is architected soon). Not desperate to monetize it, it can handle many many thousands of users at a cost of $10/mo to us, but we do have some ideas.

Paypal donate?! Probably should add that for satisfied super-fans :)

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by jeffmiller on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:47PM (#2004969)

Are you guys concerned about having to replicate Twitter's API infrastructure, even at a vastly lower scale?

(I'm a fan of the product. The world needs more Twitter filtering.)

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by aaronwhite on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:49AM (#2008046)

Since it's a proxy, we've only had to selectively modify parts of the API, and we have some SecretSauce(tm) that normalizes the process. :)

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by sudonim on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:58AM (#2004343)

Nice. The chrome extension is new? One of the things I wasn't crazy about before was having to configure my twitter clients to grab my feed via proxlet.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by aaronwhite on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:05AM (#2004371)

Yup, the Chrome Extension is new and what makes it exciting (again). The per-client install process was too difficult/error-prone, so when we saw we could "hook" Twitter.com, we jumped on it.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by bbalfour on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:03AM (#2004362)

This is pretty cool.

I'd love to see a list of the most hated twitter users as a measure of who is muted the most using your service. You could also do this with the hash tags to see what the most annoying trends are.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by arieldiaz on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:56AM (#2004336)

Finally a great way to customize Twitter and make it useful, while diving into some granular control. Awesome technology on the back end as well.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by mhodgson on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:59AM (#2004350)

Wow, works great. Now I can follow people without having to actually listen to them.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by babeKnuth on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:26PM (#2006196)

best. use-case. ever.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by jdunck on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:54PM (#2006302)

Really? I hope that's not true. Friend != follow. :-(

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by aaronwhite on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @08:53AM (#2008065)

It's a really common use case actually. Let's say you're a friend IRL, but on Twitter you just talk about sports. I still want you to be able to Direct Message me, but I don't care about sports (I'm myopic and only care about tech ;-)) Proxlet helps you achieve this type of relationship.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by babeKnuth on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @07:28PM (#2006444)

ha. yes i was serious.

internet friend != real-life friend

sorry to break the bad news :(

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by mmanning on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:32AM (#2004454)

I've actually started using Twitter much more entirely due to this plugin. There was way too much garbage before. Nice work.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by markitechtMA on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:04AM (#2004546)

This has transformed my experience with Twitter. I'm using it in Chrome just with the regular Twitter web client and it ROCKS! Nice work guys, definitely going to tell friends and coworkers.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by kmfrk on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:38AM (#2004473)

Are you planning to expand this to other browsers?

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by aaronwhite on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:53AM (#2004514)

Yes. Once we've nailed what people want w/ Chrome, we'll pick the next browser to tackle. Would love to hear people's thoughts on that

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by chobopants on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:35AM (#2004674)

Proxlet brings Twitter back to the usefulness I came to it for.

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by iworkforthem on Monday December 20, 2010 @10:07AM (#2024479)

clickable: http://proxlet.com/

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Re:Show HN: Proxlet: Control Twitter w/ API Proxy by jwegener on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:17AM (#2004602)

WHOOO!

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