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Show HN: My new Facebook, Twitter, MySpace & LinkedIn iPhone app

I've spent around a year building a Facebook, Twitter, MySpace & LinkedIn iPhone app, which aside from the API hell, has been a pretty fun experience! I think it's turned out really nice. It's been a technical challenge to sync not only a single address book, but also your address books on all the social networks, but in hindsight, I'd do it all again. I'd love to know what HN think's of it, the app URL is:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/friends-plus-facebook-twitter/id407846513?mt=8&ls=1

Here are some promo codes, not sure how long they will last:

WPTA4M99L3YF MR39LWPTKNYT ME346Y3TPNY9 TY69MJN6ARYY EKR3MAHFJAP4

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Clickable link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/friends-plus-facebook-twitter/id...

Great update on the UX; Significantly better. The design is lovely as always. Way to go Taptivate!

Your design looks impeccable. I love the contact and compose screens.

If I had $.99 I would absolutely buy this but it would cut into my ramen budget

Thanks! Here's a promo code to get it for free: P9MNMF6NWNJK.

Okay so I checked out your app. I was impressed and now I'm blown away.

The UI is gorgeous. The posts view is killer. I love how Facebook photos are displayed. It took me a few seconds to figure out how everything works, after that I realized this is what I've been looking for.

I think the only thing you can add to it is more API integration. It's perfect for me. You have gained a fan.

It really interests me how decided to display syncing notifications. How did you override the status bar?

Thanks! The status bar is a little bit of view order trickery. It's actually a UIWindow that resides at the statusBarLevel + 1. The tricky part is making it rotate with the window frame. There are a few open source implementations out there on GitHub (no links handy, sorry).

Actually another suggestion: when going to a person's profile, the extra click to get to the posts is unneeded. You should display a feed of the profile or at least interaction between the two users on that screen.

Friends Plus looks great - I took this promo code: EKR3MAHFJAP4

I'll leave a reply in a bit with my first impressions and suggestions.

Wow, I was up and running a lot quicker than I thought I would be. Hope this is some good feedback for you!

What I like: - Setup was really easy; I entered my credentials and was done - I love being able to filter by stream or type of posts - I love address book integration - Love notifications pulled in from across all my different social media outlets - Great presentation of my profile + tabs

What I don't like: - Lists -> My Profiles -> Great design, but it pulls quite a bit of info off my Facebook account, and unless it's a URL, tapping on it does nothing - Lists seems redundant, I can filter by stream anyway, can't I?

Just some initial thoughts, might come back for more later. Awesome work!

Thanks for all the feedback!

Looks amazing...any chance on an Android version coming soon??

Perhaps, it's something I have been considering.

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