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Work · January 6, 2011

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My November(++) Project. Facebook Stream Reader for Mac

Hey, In early November there there were a couple of threads encouraging other fellow HN'ers to finish, and release a project by the end of November. I decided to try to hit that goal, but in the end my meticulous attention-to-detail prevented me from finishing the app in November and it took until end of December to finish it (sadly, that required me to work through through the Christmas Holidays). So, even though it was only 2.x month, a lot of work (and lots of little-sleep-nights) went into that project. Of course, I could have continued developing forever, because there's still so much…

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Hey, In early November there there were a couple of threads encouraging other fellow HN'ers to finish, and release a project by the end of November. I decided to try to hit that goal, but in the end my meticulous attention-to-detail prevented me from finishing the app in November and it took until end of December to finish it (sadly, that required me to work through through the Christmas Holidays). So, even though it was only 2.x month, a lot of work (and lots of little-sleep-nights) went into that project. Of course, I could have continued developing forever, because there's still so much that I'd like to implement - but given the 'release early and often' mantra I was already pretty late to the party. But now it is ready, and even better in time for the Mac App Store opening, as it is a Mac App. The name is: Clarity http://www.clarity-app.com Clarity is a Facebook desktop client for the Mac that aims at simplifying your friends' news streams. Facebook offers with its News Streams a feature that is very similar to Twitter but oftentimes succeeds where Twitter fails as more of your close friends are probably on Facebook and so it is easier to feel connected. However, even though there are a couple of very good desktop Twitter clients (Tweetie, Echofon, Kiwi, etc), there are far less desktop Facebook Stream clients. My idea was to develop a Facebook Stream client, that would run on my desktop and inform me of the newest events in my friends‘ lives. An important objective behind Clarity was to support very good desktop integration of the Facebook News Stream and to clear it up so that it looks and feels more streamlined and less cluttered. This means Clarity is first and foremost a Facebook News Stream Reader. It sorts your news stream, clears it up, and offers enhanced filtering options. I also added enhanced security features, so that one can only write status updates to certain friends groups or only read from certain friends. - - - - - - - - I'd love your opinion. Do you think this targets a viable market? I build this in my spare time, so I hope that will turn out to be a worthwhile investment (however then again, the learning experience that I had so far already almost made it worthwhile).

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