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Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
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Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.
Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole.
Agree with this. It'll be important for Solo to highlight and even celebrate the positive aspects of being alone to avoid this.
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#13If this is a web app, why can't is use it from my desktop browser?
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#14Not sure if this is terribly awesome or immensely sad
There have been times when I've felt extremly lonely. I think an app like this which connects lonely people together would be awesome! I generally just visit some random subreddits or random rooms on Discord when I feel lonely.
Or, connect lonely people to those that might lend an ear, offer advice, or just offer support in some other way.
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#16What 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!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback. I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives. My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.
Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole.
> Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole.
Being alone is not a sickness. The site, when viewed on mobile even without an app, shows the first entry as someone who climbed a mountain when alone. Another learned about the three poisons, and yet a third chose to read a series of books.
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#18What 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!
HN has always supported and cared about loneliness for all the time I've being here. I expect nothing but encouragement and helpful advice in this thread.
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#19What 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!
HN has always supported and cared about loneliness for all the time I've being here. I expect nothing but encouragement and helpful advice in this thread.
But at the same time we're engineers with pessimistic minds focussed on failure and monetization so I sadly expect different.
Re: Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
#20What 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!
Thank you! That's what Solo is all about.