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Show HN: my first app turns Twitter into a news aggregator

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Hey everyone,

Common advice for inexperienced hackers suggests "scratching an itch." Like many others here, I spent too much time on HN, Google Reader and Twitter searching for interesting stuff, so I decided to write an app that brings interesting links to you with no other distractions.

HighFive uses Twitter and bit.ly's APIs to find interesting links in your timeline. When you log in, you'll see a group of five links with voting arrows. No HN comments or RSS feeds with hundreds of links--just a few interesting articles that you can read, then get back to work.

HighFive was built using Python and Django, and it lives at http://acompa.net/highfive. This is my first app (and I only started using Python last year), so any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks, everyone!

-Alejandro

tl;dr -- Check out my first web app at http://acompa.net/highfive

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You lost me on the front page. I'm not going to sign in with my twitter even out of curiosity, so perhaps you should make the first impression more compelling.

Sure thing. Do you think it's a copy issue, or that the app isn't explained too well?

I'd like to see an example of it in action.

Also I'd need reassurance that you're not about to spam all my followers.

Agreed, I'd be worried too. I actually address the spam thing in the Terms section (http://acompa.net/highfive/terms/), and I have a little example in the How It Works section (http://acompa.net/highfive/help/).

Guess I should make those more obvious?

when you go to authorize, it only asks for read permissions (as verified by the twitter page.)

Just tried this and got an error https://skitch.com/spotonpek/r9xxt/500-internal-server-error

Thanks--I'm getting a bunch of "401: Unauthorized" notices right now. Hmm...

I received the following error, after I signed-in via Twitter

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, acompanioni@gmail.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

All right, I believe (believe!) I fixed the "401: Unauthorized" error. Would really appreciate it if someone could try again.

I like the concept. Are you using social engagement (bitly shares, retweets, etc.) to rank the links?

clickable: http://acompa.net/highfive

I tried to use it but once twitter authorisation done its shows error page sorry

The site is unreachable now (1540 JST).

I'm getting an error trying to OAuth

Can you try again? I was using an outdated version of an OAuth script.

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