My first day on Seven39 just concluded and I'm def coming back.
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
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#352I wish someone made social media where everyone gets one post every day. Almost no person on this planet has more than one bit of news to share daily with their extended social network — probably not even the countries' leaders. When accounts share every 10 minutes, it's often spam or some inorganic agenda. Oversharing in natural social networks is penalized heavily, and for good reason - with too much noise and litt…
I'm actually part of a site like this, just a thing a friend of a friend made: - You can write and edit one post at a time. - This post, in whatever form it has then, gets published at 8 in the morning. - You can only see posts for today. All old content gets deleted. - No comments or feedback is possible. - Only symmetric relationships are possible: you can add someone, but they won't see your posts and you won't se…
I’m on a site built by a friend and you can only post on Mondays, and then you see every one else’s post only if you posted on Monday.
I wonder how many micro communities like this exist, mostly under the radar.
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#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
This happens on Reddit- you'll make a comment that makes sense to Europeans or Asians, and it gets n upvotes. Then America wakes up and all of a sudden it gets n downvotes. It's especially interesting in local expat communities: in Asia local time, you'll make a comment that is the ground truth and it gets n upvotes from locals and other foreigners in-country. But then the children of immigrants in America who are as…
This happens on HN too of course!
Pretty much every day that I comment on HN, at least a couple of the comments I write get to +3 or so by the end of the day, and then in the middle of the night they're at +1 or 0. Consistently. I assume it's this.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#354"Opens in 35h+" On what planet a day is 35h long?
Venus or Mercury.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. I like the idea that something like this could be open for 3 hours in the evening local time. Like, you'd get totally different communities coming on at different times, and having…
I can see the addicts rewinding their clocks already :)
Have seen this happening too often when my sister, brother, or wife were using the iPhone time limit for apps.
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#356I think it's a really cool idea. I signed up because I had a brain fart and thought that "EST" was "European Standard Time" (I was of course thinking of CET). So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. This being said – if you…
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#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Depends entirely upon the issue and the urgency. You could delay everything by a few hours or a day between submitting a post and publishing it. I'm talking about the inconvenience of potentially having to get up at 3am to see what your dad posted. All that said, I think someone should definitely try this idea out, and people can decide for themselves whether they want to us it. I also thought that Twitter's charac…
> I'm talking about the inconvenience of potentially having to get up at 3am to see what your dad posted. Maybe if your dad posts something on a website that is only opened at 3am in your own time zone, it’s that their post is not intended for you. I can’t access op’s website because of my location and I have no fomo at all : I’m just not the target. It’s ok. I still find the idea to be funny.
> I can’t access op’s website because of my location and I have no fomo at all : I’m just not the target. It’s ok. I still find the idea to be funny.
People move and travel.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#358I think there is an idea there, but this obviously won't work. Here are some large drawbacks:
* timezones, most of the world is not on EST. If you make it per timezone, then not everyone will be on at the same time.
* 7.39 to 10.39 is not practical for everyone even on EST timezone. I go to sleep at 8pm, this means that I avoid screentime 7-8pm because of blue light. We all have different schedules, I tend to only use my computer during the business hours. In the evening I want to spend time with my kids, not be on social. Even if your social network would have a reward, for example 100$ a month to use it from 7.39 to 10.39, I would decline.
Some food for thought:
* Make the time open only based on a user selection. For example I would chose 9am to noon. Only allow switching time once a month. Clearly display a schedule of when most of your friends have selected a time, so that if I see that actually a lot of my friends have chosen 1 to 4pm instead, I can switch to that.
* Most likely after this comment, I will never see your site again. I would suggest adding a demo or a video, for people logging in outside of the hours, to entice them to come back when the site is open.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
A moving window would be just like what you already get with somewhat global communities. E.g. hn while Europe and Africa is mostly sleeping vs hn while the Americas are mostly sleeping. As I understand it, seven39 is not so much about only being allowed to chime in during a specific time window, but about it being offline outside that window. You could have multiple instances from date line to date line, but they'd…
I think that what sets this type of apart is its position as a response to the fatigue people feel from social media in its current form. I don't think something like this would have resonated as much when social media was in its infancy.
True. Also in the very old days, people actively "went online" at certain times. Dial in the modem, visit the Internet Cafe, things like that. A web community would better be ready and waiting.
But then on the other hand, there have been a few years between that time and the present...
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#360Reminds me a little bit of early days of BeReal.