Hello! We built sanctionkit to offer an affordable alternative for devs and startup building on crypto, as most of the available solutions are enterprise focus.

We have Facebook in and working on G+ right now. The approach is completely different then Hootsuite where you have this kind of multicolumn dashboard instead we let you organise in single streams everything so that you have a proper unified timeline contextualized depending on your needs, we also extract people and all the media shared allowing you to search trough them. For twitter we also provide much more then just keyword search mentions and hashtag but we have a complete boolean filtering in realtime for the whole firehose that can nail down whatever you need filtering out the noise.

Sure Multiple Twitter accounts are in together with whole firehose access filtrable by even complex booleans that normally just listeners tools like radian6 offers. Facebook also in there, together with Instagram, working on g+ and Linkedin and next will be firehose for tumblr, Wordpress, Disqus. We have a roadmap but we are focusing on the beta now to fine tune everything. Ios apps are also on the roadmap of course

We recently posted on HN about our idea andthewinner.is, a platform for realtime viral contests on Twitter. After some experiments we decided to go more viral and test out the architecture we are using (node.js and websockets). As the Pope just landed on Twitter we wanted to discover how populare he is compared to... Justin Bieber! Are you curious to see how is it going? Check it out: http://www.andthewinner.is/popevsbieber

By the way, on December 12th the Pope is supposed to do his first tweet... stay tuned because we guess it will get a huge hype

Yup and we posted before that as well already on HN. pinged the gist guy on twitter but haven't yet received any answer. Look cook the gistio solution as well, although we are doing something less hackerish and more simple to use without any need of github, for the normal user :)

Thanks ojr! At least we are building something we wanna use ourself to write with, and from the feedbacks look like others will most likely be happy to use it as well.

It's just lovely to see something done because it's a good idea, because it's "something you want to see", and not because it's cool or might make you rich... I think that's cool, and I hope it makes you rich :P

Thanks :) being the richest guys of the graveyard is no our goal in life :-P

cool! We also have the short version of it: fth.rs :)

Thanks Killswitch, if you signup we can keep you in the loop for when this will happen :) The more good beta-testers we have the better it will get for the public release .

Nope, it's a web app so as long as you have a browser you will be able to use it. And on mobile devices article are optimized to offer a nice reading experience on every one, not just ios. We didn't want to overcroud the page putting there images of anykinf of device, but as soon as we go out of the beta we will add more featurelist and explanation on it. Thanks for pointing it out, appreciated.

it's a free and hosted solution. NO selfhosting planned atm, and we are thinking of exporting capability, but not amain goal atm.

If that's the case, what distinguishes it from Tumblr? It's easy to use, has sensible and appealing defaults, costs nothing, and has plenty of room for customization if you need more.

read the manifesto and you'll see why: http://feathe.rs/manifesto , its all about the writing experience. and in about being able to have posts not linked among them as normal blogs do by listing them. Its more ment for the social web, that's why we called feathers as each post for us is like a feather traveling on the web via social sharing... think of it like the iAwriter for the web :) Of course tumblr still rocks and for its purpose is ok, we just wanted somethign faster, simpler, more minimal..read the manifesto there you'll find why we hacked this project together.

Must not be for me. I don't see the point of it. But don't let me stop you if you think you've got a market for it.

There are no solutions for everything and everybody, so don't worry, you are welcome and thanks for having shared your points, always nice to hear from others:)

It's not for me either (simply because I'm hacking about with my own CMS and if I want fullscreen posts I'll just add that :), but I like the idea of making it simpler a lot.

Can you please come up with a business model, maybe premium accounts, and then refuse to be aquired, ever? :)

No business model, we just did it for our self as we wanted and envision such a distraction-free writing experience for the web, so we just opening it up for free for others feeling the same way and looking for something like feathers.

Hey rob, thanks. Yup I've seen pen.io but it doesn't offer drafting, the writing experience is not that nice and the posts are not optimized for reading nor on pc or mobile devices, and we will also suport markdown syntax for writing.). The removing of article is an idea we have in mind, as we thought unreaden and unshared articles are just dead articles so why not just remove them? But this idea is not implemented atm so articles wont be removed. What you think on this? Would love ot ehar your thoughts on this direction.

Good to know. Thanks for answering my comment! I went ahead and signed up for the beta as you struck my curiosity with the writing environment teaser! As for my thoughts on removing old content, I get a kick out of going back through the websites I used to frequent and reading things I wrote. The pack-rat in me would prefer to always have access to my past work. But, I do understand the logic in wanting to keep all of the content fresh. Maybe you could remove it but provide an option to have an old piece salvaged for a small fee?

Yup i see your points and they make sense to me, really thank you for sharing and explaining them further ;-)

I would prefer if articles remain.

You don't want to burn a book just because it's old.

Something like ESR's how to become a hacker[0] is several years old, but it's still valuable and people still link to it.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Agree! Looks like you are not the only one giving us this feedback so don't worry, feathers post will keep floating on the clout :)

Maybe you could still leave it up to the author? i.e. just list inactive blog entries, for how long they've been inactive, and a quick way to delete some/all of them.

Yup that could be a way to go, although I think that when you leave it so, people will just forget to get back and change such settings hover again. For quick deleting you can already do this right now, straight form the public page of the article if you are logged in(as well as per editing)