Do plan on having a native mobile app ?
Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform
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#32Do plan on having a native mobile app ?
Yes, the iOS app should be available in the App Store sometime next week! Drop an email to feedback@sora.city and I'll send a TestFlight invite.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Subscription unlocks all the functions you can't use in demo mode. Once you subscribe you'll have access to all present and future collection types, image upload and daily statistics. Please remember that Sora is (and will remain) completely ad-free, and it was built by only a few people. We aren't a big company (yet ;) and we aren't vc-backed.
My personal blog costs me about $1.30 a month, including my image cdn. Why is your software worth $100+ a year to me? I can go with Ghost and save $1 a month over your price.
I’m curious, how many megabytes of image are you hosting ? Looking to run my blog with static hosting similar to this.
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#340. How does this compare to Fediverse-based solutions, such as Write.Freely for articles, Pixelfed for graphics, Mastodon or Pleroma or Misskey for microblogging? Do you plan on supporting ActivityPub for federation? 1. What are your funding plans? If you plan on being free, what sort of user data will you be selling to pay for your costs? 2a. You mention on the bottom that Sora is Forever: "We're building Sora becau…
0: We're going to support ActivityPub at some point this year. Also monitoring all the other protocols popped up recently. 1: Won't sell any data, ever. Bootstrapped for now, user funded once we scaled up. We might temporary suspend signups at a point to ensure uninterrupted service. 2a: Good callout, will update the site with future plans! 2b: We're actively working on making content exportable, so you'll be able to…
> Won't sell any data, ever
Is this clearly stated in the terms and condition, including what happens if you sell the company in the future?
If it's not, then your words are meaningless, sorry.
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#35Would it be possible to provide free trial / demo code for HN?
The $9.99 hop from basic blog to micro blog, polaroid, poster is to high. I don't know what exactly I'm getting for that price. Even if there was a credit card gated trial, that would be too high friction for people.
Especially given there is no transparency about the team, investors, customer success stories to help with trust.
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#36Do plan on having a native mobile app ?
Yes, the iOS app should be available in the App Store sometime next week! Drop an email to feedback@sora.city and I'll send a TestFlight invite.
Also curious about your tech choices.
Why did you opt for Supabase instead of headless CMS like Netlify?
Why did you opt for Atomic CSS instead of Tailwind?
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#37On first sight, the design looks nice. On second sight, it’s a slow SPA, showing placeholders for way too long. The usability around navigation has the typical buggy SPA feeling:
Go here https://topcat.sora.city/found Tap an image, use the back button of the browser and you’re all the way back to the client-side no-cache loading of the profile.
Or again, tap an image, try to copy the description. It swipes to the next image or something (on mobile). Very weird usability.
Or tap one of the last images, close it with the close button and Safari will scroll all the way to the top again.
Imho, the SSR experience of most personal blogs is quite important if you want to compete with other platforms, because broken back buttons and obnoxius content loading is what you get from places like Medium or LinkedIn. A SPA is totally the wrong way to go here I think.
In short: it looks nice but feels shitty.
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#38On first sight, the design looks nice. On second sight, it’s a slow SPA, showing placeholders for way too long. The usability around navigation has the typical buggy SPA feeling: Go here https://topcat.sora.city/found Tap an image, use the back button of the browser and you’re all the way back to the client-side no-cache loading of the profile. Or again, tap an image, try to copy the description. It swipes to the nex…
Appreciate the feedback, will fix the navigation issue.
> Or again, tap an image, try to copy the description. It swipes to the next image or something (on mobile). Very weird usability.
Will spend some time on this too—not too easy to keep the swiping natural and maintain all expected behaviors.
> Imho, the SSR experience of most personal blogs is quite important if you want to compete with other platforms, because broken back buttons and obnoxius content loading is what you get from places like Medium or LinkedIn. A SPA is totally the wrong way to go here I think.
Pages are loading from cache most of time (sub 100ms), but SSR does need some time to populate SEO data for bots. But agreed that perceived speed is very important, we have some tweaks coming in this area as well.
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#39I'm reading this comment thread and I realize that you misunderstand a lot about what the OP created and wanted to share with y'all (yes, I know him and I've been useing Sora since it exists). Let's say - I'm an average internet user who likes to create and share content and yes I've been using social media platforms for it because for us, there aren't many other options these days. I don't think I need to tell you w…
It’s a blog with photos?
Even with your description I don’t get it. If I make a website, which is easy to do nowadays, I can also share that link.
What exactly is the revolution here?
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#40I'm reading this comment thread and I realize that you misunderstand a lot about what the OP created and wanted to share with y'all (yes, I know him and I've been useing Sora since it exists). Let's say - I'm an average internet user who likes to create and share content and yes I've been using social media platforms for it because for us, there aren't many other options these days. I don't think I need to tell you w…
It’s a blog with photos? Even with your description I don’t get it. If I make a website, which is easy to do nowadays, I can also share that link. What exactly is the revolution here?
You are not the target audience:
> [if] you can build your very own blog engine or you can find a more complicated one that satisfies your needs then Sora isn't for you