ThreadBuilder

2019-12-30

WIP for the draft tweet box. Tried out using <textarea> but turns out it's really limited to displaying plain text. Did some digging to existing highlightable inputs and turns out they are using <div contentEditable=true>. Now the component is able to highlight text > X characters, but still messing up the undo flow provided from the browser. I need to dig deeper into this.

ThreadBox Original Prompt

Writing threads on Twitter currently sucks. I want to build a tool to make it less sucky. So you can write your heart out first, figure out the break points later, and not think about numbering and stuff.

Scope:

• User can write as long as they want and break into tweets as they see fit
• Highlight > 280 char tweets/sections
• They can rearrange tweet orders before posting
• Automated numbering for threads
• one click tweet OR manual tweet button

Out of scope for now:

• save draft threads
• engagement numbers per tweet (maybe, but not priority)
• import existing threads