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24 alternatives to Paul Graham Markov Chain Autocomplete for Twitter

Start a tweet with @letpgfinish, and it will be finished as if by Paul Graham himself. This was a weekend project I undertook with a couple of friends just for fun. The original one was @letkanyefinish, so you might like to try that out too... in fact, it seems to work much better (funnily enough, there's a definite inverse relationship between literacy of bot and literacy of its human counterpart). Anyway, the output is based on pg's essays and various tweets/quotes. Having used HN silently for a while, we thought we'd share this - so hope you enjoy :)

This tool automatically completes tweets started with @letpgfinish by generating text in the style of Paul Graham, using his essays and published quotes as training data. Created as a weekend project, it uses Markov… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Paul Graham Markov Chain Autocomplete for Twitter launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Markov Chain Twitter Bot generator. Contribute to EivindArvesen/dankenstein development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    XBeast▲228

    A few weeks ago I realized i was spending way too much time trying to write quality posts for Twitter. So I decided to look into scheduling tools which could help me automate my writing. I tried a few, but none of them satisfied me. Either the interface was way too complicated or the features i wanted were just not there. Finally, after some time I gave up… and instead I decided to just do it! I hacked up a quick prototype in a weekend. Tried it out - it worked!! Mostly.. I fixed some bugs, made a nice UI, and now (3 weeks later) I think I built one of the nicest scheduling tools out there.

    2024 · xbeast.io · its alternatives →

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    TweePT3▲292

    The ultimate Twitter-integrated tweet writer powered by GPT3

    2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Generating fun Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange Questions using Markov Chains

    2018 · se-simulator.lw1.at · its alternatives →

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    Generates tweets for you using Markov bigram probabilities

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Explains complicated tweets to you like you're 5

    2022 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    PG has posted about improving social networks using something like an "intellectual CAPTCHA" many times [1][2][3][4] - "Make users pass a test on basic concepts like the distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions before they can tweet." I felt the same way. So I built one using a mix of simple math, logic, and Twitter/X Community Noted posts. Try sample questions here - https://mentwire.com/sample - without signing up. - Invites are temporarily open to HN users. - Onboarding test + one daily question before accessing feed, post or reply. - Posts authors are…

    Apr 2026 · mentwire.com · its alternatives →

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    Automated professional translation on Twitter.

    2014 · fliplingo.com · its alternatives →

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    I built this for myself. I make videos, and my biggest bottleneck is figuring out what to say to my audience without staring at a blank page. So I built Scriptmine: a tool that listens to Reddit conversations in my niche, finds high-signal topics, and turns them into scripts. How it works: - Track subreddits and discussions relevant to a niche - Rank topics by engagement/momentum - Generate a hook/body/CTA draft in a chosen voice/format

    Feb 2026 · scriptmine.ai · its alternatives →

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    @cmpyl Tweet a line of python at it (right now it works best with math) and it'll tweet back at you the return value. Ex: https://twitter.com/#!/cmpyl/status/186850674053615616 Pretty useless little bot but it will be cool to see what sort of wild one liners it finds.

    2012 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered tweet generator

    2023 · tweetstorm.ai · its alternatives →

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    A Better Blog-to-Twitter Automation Service

    2014 · twibble.io · its alternatives →

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    Automate your tweets, amplify your reach

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Twitter bot trained to write monologues like Stephen Colbert

    2019 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    Vellum▲63

    A reading layer for your Twitter feed

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    This bot read the pornhub comments section. Now it says bad things

    2016 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    Make TweetDeck even better!

    2014 · damien.zone · its alternatives →

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    Power-user interface for Twitter

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    AI Tweet Generator and Schedular

    2024 · twitter-joke-posting-frontend.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  21. 21IT

    Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

    2019 · pastebin.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22CB

    I'm heavily relying on Reddit for my online research, but there are many repetitive questions and recommendations on subreddits, so I trained a GPT bot on over 100k r/BuyItForLife comments and posts to embody the collective knowledge of this Reddit community (and soon many other subreddits). Some posts I answered with the bot: - Request Post: Dishwashers. What’s currently the best dishwasher for home use? - Bot Answer: https://www.looria.com/bot?q=what%27s+currently+the+best+dis... - Request Post : Recommendations for hiking shoes? - Bot Answer:…

    2023 · looria.com · its alternatives →

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    Just tweet to @paiza_run, and you will get result as reply. @paiza_run ruby: puts "Hello" + "World" Just now, it is quite hot, and people are tweeting like 20 seconds. Language names available are: java,ruby,python,php,perl,c,cpp,csharp,javascript,objective-c,scala,go,haskell,coffeescript,bash,erlang,r,cobol,vb,fsharp This service is provided based on https://paiza.io/, Handy web-based only coding environment.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    I recently finished the Front-End Web Development program at General Assembly in San Francisco. My final project turned out being a quick, easy, and free way to convert a Tweet into various properly formatted citations. Inspired by a Hacker News post a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3751295

    2013 · tweet2cite.com · its alternatives →

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