As someone who is alone, yes, I get lonely. Everyone who wants for more gets lonely, and it isn't necessarily a compliment -- it applies to idiots as well as geniuses and everyone in between.
Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
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Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#62What people do alone is very interesting and this site does a really good job at capturing that. HN is a place of very constructive and brutal criticism, so you will probably be disciplined on what it should do or what's wrong with it. But in my eyes this is a really interesting piece of art and social media that people like me really appreciate. Keep up the excellent work!
I didn't have a chance to use this on my phone, but from the landing page, this looks no different than Whisper. Knowing that, I probably won't look into this app any further. Is it worth looking into? Did the landing page miss some key features?
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#63I remember that there was an anonymous social network a while ago. The screenshots for this service look similar. Maybe someone got nostalgic for that long lost application.
Edit: I think that was "Secret", it shut down in 2015.
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#64This site has an exposed Git directory, so you can clone the whole thing. Funnily enough, it appears to be actually talking to a MySQL database. http://sharesolo.com/get_notes.php Also, all of the credentials are there. I won't post them, but lordy, please close this before your database is wiped.
Bravo for pointing that out! Care to explain how you discovered this? Making such security mistakes is what my nightmares are made of
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#65This site has an exposed Git directory, so you can clone the whole thing. Funnily enough, it appears to be actually talking to a MySQL database. http://sharesolo.com/get_notes.php Also, all of the credentials are there. I won't post them, but lordy, please close this before your database is wiped.
Bravo for pointing that out! Care to explain how you discovered this? Making such security mistakes is what my nightmares are made of
Probably tried to access http://sharesolo.com/.git/ for the repo and looked at the network traffic to see the get_notes.php.
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#66As an INFP persona who has worked remotely and solo for many years, I'd like to break the stigma that "alone = bad". I find it incredibly energising a lot of the time, but then there are the odd times when I crave a little human social engagement. Traditional social media channels have devolved into a cesspit of noisy pollution, but I tend to occasionally post right here on HN, guitar forums, or even on obscure Reddi…
Tangentially, since you mention INFP.
It seems to me that the Myers-Briggs test is becoming mainstream. I see people mention these personality codes more and more.
But the test seems to have no scientific validity: http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/Articles/develop/mbti.pdf
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#67Tried searching for the app in Google Store. Does the app exist for Android?
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#68Tried searching for the app in Google Store. Does the app exist for Android?
It's a website, not an app. You have to access http://sharesolo.com/ from your phone.
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#69"Solo connects us in these moments when we are most authentic to ourselves"
If we were authentic to ourselves we wouldn't need to share experiences. We wouldn't need an audience to authenticate them if we valued ourselves as worthy witnesses.
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#70"Solo connects us in these moments when we are most authentic to ourselves" If we were authentic to ourselves we wouldn't need to share experiences. We wouldn't need an audience to authenticate them if we valued ourselves as worthy witnesses.
> If we were authentic to ourselves we wouldn't need to share experiences
And sometimes, the experience is already shared with other people!