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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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I think you're exploring an important space here. Good luck! Also, the video essay you made about this ( https://youtu.be/zgA4GzRsldI for anyone interested) is incredibly well-produced. I was expecting it to be someone mumbling over a screencast, but it's the total opposite.

I felt the same. I almost never watch product videos, and I watched this one all the way through... very well done.

over-produced. not raw and real.

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So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the for…

If I understand correctly, is it a personal reddit/HN filled with content from websites you picked?

If this is it then I think there is a big potential. Actually, there might be a bigger potential as a SaaS than a browser plugin.

It'd be cool if you can share your newsfeed, or absorb other people's newsfeed.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I felt the same. I almost never watch product videos, and I watched this one all the way through... very well done.

over-produced. not raw and real.

I see these as synonyms for: 'creative', personally. Seems 'on brand' with the rest of the site and product presentation.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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When the iPhone first allowed apps in an app store I had a conversation with another developer. We brainstormed an idea of an application that would allow you to aggregate all of your conversations with a person. Instead of opening the phone app, the messages app, facebook, twitter, etc. you would instead open the "Joe Smith" app and all of your conversations with that person across any medium would be aggregated in…

I think I recall early Windows phone OS doing that as well.

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the for…

I love this already. It's been one of my biggest gripes of social media that I can't just follow people and catch what they're up to on my terms, sans "the platform" nudging me to interact this way, like this, star that, react to that over there because someone three degrees of separation did it, watch a video someone uploaded of their dinner. I want to passively observe and interact if I want to.

This is what I've wanted. It's like a living notepad file full of links

Great work, excited to put this to work

Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the for…

I think you're exploring an important space here. Good luck! Also, the video essay you made about this ( https://youtu.be/zgA4GzRsldI for anyone interested) is incredibly well-produced. I was expecting it to be someone mumbling over a screencast, but it's the total opposite.

Sadly something like that will be no longer possible in Europe when the new copyright directive becomes law. But on the other hand it probably never was :(

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So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the for…

I'm the #1 fan of Fraidycat, keep up the good work!
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