
Crabber
Open source Twitter clone for crabby people
After 60+ hour work weeks, late nights, tons of beta testing, and lots of swearing I made Crabber available to the public for the first time.
In hindsight, this was a double-edged sword. It was premature and left me running around trying to patch site-breaking bugs that people were running into left and right. The up-side being that it allowed me to iron out the kinks much more rapidly than I could on my own, and it gave me some insight into what people actually wanted out of the site rather than what I thought they wanted.
About
I love Twitter, but like any social network it's experienced rot. Timelines revert to non-chronological every few days, there's ads, the API gets restricted more and more as time goes on. Crabber is my backup plan.

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