MakerTools

MakerTools

Easily make a Twitter list of your product's upvoters.

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Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
@russellbarnard emailed me about this project a while back. At first, I hated the idea. Some people obnoxiously tweet at every upvoter with inauthentic thanks. Russell was understanding and made some modifications to curb that potential abuse (thanks!). Curious how people use this.
Marc
Hackerpreneur Magazine
Totally agree @rrhoover. The "thanks for upvoting" is the new auto DM and I'm so glad your instinct is that it's obnoxious / inauthentic. But I love this product - massive kudos to @russellbarnard. Such smart use of the API and I guess one of the massive benefits of PH using Twitter for authentication / ID. Was just thinking yesterday about Twitter lists - Easily Twitter's most underused feature. Twitter need to give lists more airtime.
Russell Barnard
Maker
@marceglon @rrhoover thanks for the comments, glad I reached out to go over the idea as I was quite wary about the 'thanks tweet' part as soon as I tested it. It was an enjoyable tool to make. Also, I totally agree with you both about automated tweets!
Russell Barnard
Maker
Happy Wednesday Product Hunt! I created MakerTools for all of the makers and future makers within the Product Hunt community. It is a simple tool which allows the maker to create a twitter list of all the people who upvoted their product. If anyone is interested in the full story, here is my post on Medium - https://medium.com/@russellbarna...
Andrea Hill
UbiMeet
Love it, thank you!
Russell Barnard
Maker
@afhill that's great to hear! glad you like it :)
Drew Meyers
Horizon
@russellbarnard @afhill I'm a fan too. Very simple, yet very useful.
Scott Vayner
Saastic
Does exactly what it says it does. Nice job.
Rik
That worked brilliantly, thank you so much for creating this awesome app!
Rodney Rumford
Very Useful! Nicely done, simple and straightforward. Could you make a version that allows me to create a list of all my PH followers?
Russell Barnard
Maker
@rumford Thanks :) - I'm sure I saw a method in the API that could do this but I can look into it for sure.
Rodney Rumford
@russellbarnard Thanks! That would be really helpful as there are times when it would be very useful. I am a big Twitter List user.
Dave Branson Smith
@russellbarnard @creeshla Great product, and one that's sorely needed for anyone looking to send a personalized thank you their supporters on PH. We built something similar (but markedly more bare bones!), that stopped at exporting to csv -- taking the next step and creating a Twitter List with this is super useful. It's also awesome that you're using this (through the Medium post) as a way to teach future makers how to approach thanking their supporters in a non-spammy way 😊
Creeshla
Maker
@playswithfood Thanks for the comment :) Good to know that you think the Twitter lists were the right way to go about this. We felt it was necessary to write the Medium post as well to again emphasise that it's important to be aware of your upvoters whilst not going overboard with insincere tweets (which I suppose can be a thin line). But hopefully it can be used in the right way.
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