Hi Product Hunt friends!
We just released the first version of Cite. An app to help you make your reading recommendations on Twitter visually more pleasing. It's a bit barebone at the moment but we're planing to add different themes and stuff like that soon.
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Hi @uarrr
Love the idea and the design of cite; it's a simple idea executed really well. Are there any plans to bring it to the desktop, possibly in the form of a Chrome Extension?
Execution looks great. Well done! I hope you plan on expanding this to more platforms, rather than just tweets. Imagine a decentralised Genius.com where you can annotate and share any piece of content you come across. Follow people who's world perspective inspire you, discover what they are reading, etc.
I worked on this idea years ago, but failed due to lack of experience and perhaps the then lacking interoperability of media consumption software. (This was pre-iPad). I think your current app is a great starting point though. Very simple, but with huge potential. Start small, think big. Next step user profiles?
In terms of distribution creating a WordPress plugin for bloggers to use might be an interesting approach as well. A Cite-optimized tweet button could potentially drive more traffic than a regular tweet button.
@marckohlbrugge We're not absolutely new to this either. We built something called QUOTE.fm before, a social reading platform with the same goals you described. And yeah, sharing to other platforms will be one of the first things we add.
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@uarrr I almost used this today. I created a quote and loved the layout, but couldn't find out how to change the purple background. Since I wanted a neutral background or one in our school colors, I ended up using OneShot (which I'm also quite fond of): https://twitter.com/MarquetteU/s...
Any plans to customize background color?
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