Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media(socialbar.me)

Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

http://socialbar.me/

20 comments

As a user, I find these sorts of attempts to control my experience for increased "engagement" incredibly obnoxious. At least the Ow.ly bar lets me easily turn it off permanently.

BrianPetro14 anni fa

I can see myself using this! Nice job.

edit: Here is an example of my bar on the page shared above: http://bit.ly/TOlIDo

edit^2: Already shared with my friends that are big into social sharing. Again, nice work.

ozkatz14 anni fa

Happy to hear that! Thank you.

citricsquid14 anni fa

A demo would be nice, I'm not sure I understand the concept. Do I need to login with Facebook or Twitter to see how it works, or to get one of them (whatever they are)?

ozkatz14 anni fa

Yea, the front page definitely needs some work, you only need either Facebook or Twitter to get started, not both.

citricsquid14 anni fa

turns out I was misunderstanding, after logging in with Facebook I get the concept perfectly. Awesome idea, I think the frontpage is fine, I thought it was something a website owner added which confused me, my bad not yours!

iamweisser14 anni fa

First off, great idea and nice execution.

One small problem: When I share the bit.ly link (this one for instance: http://bit.ly/YCabMj) on FB it seems that the branded bar may be messing up the preview and causing it not to load.

Looking forward to seeing the progression of this idea.

ozkatz14 anni fa

Thanks for the feedback! I'm looking into it.

wlue14 anni fa

Looks like Visibli (http://visibli.com), if you haven't seen it before.

tommoor14 anni fa

Great idea guys, and well executed.

I can totally see how this would increase the amount of followers you would get. Agreed with with @michaelhoffman though - it would be nice to have the option to permanently remove (there will always be those that hate seeing these things).

ozkatz14 anni fa

Hi Tom, Thanks! We will probably add such an option soon enough. btw, I'll contact you soon regarding Buffer integration :)

danielamitay14 anni fa

Probably minor to most visitors, but stuck out to me: The screenshot is being taken of a localhost instance. Easy fix.

EDIT: Also, BrianPetro's example broke heavily for me on Mobile Safari when zooming in.

jonnymkramer14 anni fa

So you load the webpage in an iFrame? Many websites wont let themselves be loaded into an iFrame to defend against clickjacking. For example you can't share youtube videos with this.

ozkatz14 anni fa

We check if a website allows embedding before creating the short link. In case embedding is forbidden we redirect to the web page itself, so we can still track analytics for that link (you'll also get a message about that in the dashboard).

paigalhaes14 anni fa

nice job! I believe you have a "to do" list, but a mere 1 minute fix of changing the print-screen using your real URL would be nice :)

and ty for the inside history http://ozkatz.github.com/from-idea-to-mvp-to-1-on-hacker-new...

csense14 anni fa

I misread the title, thought it said "A branded bear." That would have been more fun.

benjlang14 anni fa

Definitely see the value in this. FYI small spelling mistake: virallity

notatoad14 anni fa

pretty sure the correct spelling is virality.

ozkatz14 anni fa

Thanks! Good catch, fixing.

roeybr14 anni fa

great execution. I wish there was a way to add more twiiter\fb profiles so I can share with personal or business profiles from the same account.