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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet u... by davidw on Friday May 08, 2009 @11:44AM (#599774)
If you spent time building it, why would you be ashamed of promoting it? I mean, don't spam me with it every time you post here, but if you're proud of it, let the world know.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet u... by adrianwaj on Friday May 08, 2009 @12:09PM (#599809)
okay, it's here: http://twitya.com/

I am proud of it, traffic hasn't really climbed even after spikes from being linked elsewhere, like on a TC comment, so I'm thinking it's more of a very niche site.

It avg's only about 50 uniques a day.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet u... by GeneralMaximus on Friday May 08, 2009 @12:19PM (#599823)
Why don't you try submitting it directly to HN, Digg, Reddit, <whatever>? If you have an interesting tool, I'm sure people will upvote. In fact, proggit loves homegrown projects.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet u... by adrianwaj on Friday May 08, 2009 @12:39PM (#599865)
I'll look into it. Thanks.

I'm generally averse to wasting people's time, I'm also somewhat detached to the worldly success of the site as I'm happy using it myself. Also, I think as a twitter client, there might only be 2 others that use it regularly for that purpose.

Side note: for a while I started collecting information about what people were doing on the site using ajax posts to the server as it's all client-side, and I found a regular Chinese user who'd possibly setup a bogus twitter account of a fictional gay character linking to products for all his followers.

It's going to need about 3 times more traffic to start getting feedback and PR momentum. I think the site will only stick with a small portion of people that visit it. So it'd need to be hyped a lot, which is not my thing if it ends up wasting people's time in the process.