Show HN: Auto-post your GitHub activity to Twitter

richo 13 years ago |

This just in, all the people who care about what I do on github just follow me there.

agresso 13 years ago | |

Well, in this case you might like the idea to share individual activities, not all of them.

why-el 13 years ago |

Nice, but I think the list of activities that you enable people to tweet are not that interesting in my opinion. Tweeting that I opened an issue in some project is more interesting to developers than when I start watching a repo.

Granted, I did not log in, since it requires Twitter, so I might be missing more options.

agresso 13 years ago | |

More options exists. Unfortunately I didn't mention all of them in screenshot.

why-el 13 years ago | | |

Ah ok! thanks for the clarification then. Good job! ;)

flyblackbox 13 years ago |

Is this something that could be rolled into ifttt.com? You should talk to the guys over there via this link: http://ifttt.com/api

If This Than That (ifttt) connects popular, public APIs and bridges them to create Trigger/Event pairs to automate tasks.

agresso 13 years ago | |

Not sure, they have enough flexibility. But I ll try anyway

flyblackbox 13 years ago | | |

please let me know how that goes @flyblackbox on Twitter

samarudge 13 years ago |

Why not just grab your RSS feed and put it into TwitterFeed or dlvr.it?

agresso 13 years ago | |

Because it's needs * serious formatting * no options what to share * no share individual activity.

I tried twitterfeed on my own and All reasons above makes this approach not really good.

samarudge 13 years ago | | |

dlvr.it allows you to create filters on items. You can get it to post as much or as little as you want and it provides full customization for formatting, you can even find and replace within the text

agresso 13 years ago | | |

It's pretty hard to get formatting you need with rss feed. In some cases formatting human readable tweet require addition GET query to github API and many other more specific problems.

dlvr.it is just to general to be good for one thing. tweethub is good for one thing.

samarudge 13 years ago | | |

Yeah it's one thing that does a very simple job that I have to give both my twitter and github auth too. I might forget about them or not be sure how to disable it. Are you going to build one of these for the 20 or so other feeds I put into my Twitter? Yeah it's a nice idea, and the implementation seems good, but it's not really fixing a problem so for most people it probably won't be worth the effort.

agresso 13 years ago | | |

You need only twitter auth.

Let's assume you don't want to remember anything. But once when you do a commit you might do it like:

git commit -m "Add magic beans to make super scale //tweet"

Is it easy enough?

Most services are useless for most people. It's true. I built it because I need it myself. But I can assume there some people just like me in the world.

100100110 13 years ago |

I think it could be the next feature for ifttt.com. That's it

joshmangel 13 years ago |

great idea i know my developer would surely use it :)