aaronwhite

Chris & I started Proxlet as a side project to scratch an itch and keep our skill-set fresh & do things in new ways. A great & rare opportunity to choose wild new tech stacks!

(I think I'm the he?) Happy to debate the merit of the tactics (though metrics & past experience suggest to me they are ineffective). I took issue with "small guy vs small guy". I have no large pie worth stealing, and neither will a competitor if they focus their efforts on my piece.

Also re: Twitter. I'd be thrilled if/when they roll it into the platform. I built Proxlet to solve a very real problem, not to build an empire.

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.

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 :)

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.

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. :)

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

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.

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)

Our biggest demo is highschool girls wanting to know if they should stay with their boyfriends. If you're asking icantdeci.de (or an 8ball) it is probably immaterial if you ultimately act on the advice :)

It's most likely a bug. "Go outside" is intended to come up when you've answered all the quandaries that need answering that you haven't voted on yet.

Well, it's not just that we wanted to avoid asking the same question twice in a 5 minute span... we do have users that spend literally HOURS just answering questions (instead of paying attention in class). So in order to maximally squander their education, we wanted them to receive new questions all the time.