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Re: Show HN: Fraidycat

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Post by derivagral »

reggieband wrote: post #24

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…

XMPP, RSS, and similar protocols feel like they died due to this. Technical stuff, sure, but I tend to view the technical reasons more as business justifications for lock-in than "legit" issues.

I work in the micromobility vertical, which is facing some of these issues around trips, privacy, companies owning data, and cities wanting open data. Stuff like this [1] is popping up more and more.

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/10/transport-trip-p...

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Post by qqn »

kickscondor wrote: post #27
qqn wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fantastic! I will be playing with this. I have to know though: where's the original knight interviewer video?! Happens at 3m55s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgA4GzRsldI&t=3m55s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-pAWbqdyuY

oh lord yes

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Post by kickscondor »

Jarwain wrote: post #25

I love the idea, I think it's Really Clever. I can't wait for mobile support, although I noticed the plan is for Firefox users and I'm still stuck on Chrome. I think a neat feature would be to group multiple sites together for a single individual. For example, following a web comic and connecting that with the artist's Twitter, as a single item. I'm curious as to whether it keeps track of which items I've seen or whe…

Re: grouping. This is a feature called "bundling" that I'm halfway through finishing. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/63

It doesn't track unread items. This is a move away from the 'news feed' or 'inbox' approach to reading the Web.

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Post by GrinningFool »

reggieband wrote: post #24

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…

    > 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 a single place
BlackBerry hub did this under BBOS10.

The android app more-or-less does it as well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...

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Post by yantrams »

GrinningFool wrote: post #35
reggieband wrote: post #24

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…

> 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 a single place BlackBerry hub did this under BBOS10. The android app more-or-less does it as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...

Meego OS had it too.

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Post by mintplant »

yantrams wrote: post #36
GrinningFool wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 a single place BlackBerry hub did this under BBOS10. The android app more-or-less does it as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackberry...

Meego OS had it too.

eBuddy did this back in the early 2000s.

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Post by gbasin »

atroche wrote: post #6
kickscondor wrote: post #2

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.

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