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Show HN: Midnight.pub – Virtual Speakeasy

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Post by ms123 »

Midnight is a side-project I've been working on for the past year, but only released in alpha a month ago. It aims to be the web equivalent of your local pub: a place you can go to and talk about your day with strangers or friends. It's heavily inspired by write.as (for simplicy) and Roam (for bi-directional linking). My hope is that it fosters creative writing as well as typical pub discussions.

You can read more about it and the concept on https://midnight.pub

Here are some example of interesting stories written: https://midnight.pub/e/269435632215917061 https://midnight.pub/e/270853987488498184 https://midnight.pub/e/271216985664127501

Thanks for reading!

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Post by jedimastert »

agent008t wrote: post #4

As someone who doesn't frequent pubs - is going to pubs and talking about your day to strangers actually a feature of pubs? How does that actually work? What's the etiquette?

A lot of people see pubs and bars as a place to go and socialize, made easier by the social lubricant that is alcohol. It definitely depends on the vibe of the bar and the like.

I will say that all most all of the time I've spent in bars has been in a professional capacity as a musician, but I know at least one person who actually became a more social person in general because he started drinking at a local brewer's pub (they were actually a brewer's shop and a bar, it was pretty great) instead of drinking at home.

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Post by patcoll »

Kye wrote: post #7
cammikebrown wrote: post #2

This is fascinating and I’m not sure I quite understand it. I hadn’t heard of either of the other two services so I’m looking at those now.

Write.as is a minimal blog platform that federates over ActivityPub.

I can’t help but think about ActivityPub and how it could be used to implement something like this

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Post by 35post »

Congrats, this is a an awesome idea and well implemented. Especially the name and domain is kind of welcoming and setting the right tone.

I just checked out write.as' and ResearchRoam's traffic and they have both over 1-2M visits per month which isn't too bad and surprised me a bit. Do you have insights into this market? Why does a simple editor (write.as) gets so much traffic and is still growing? Is linking (Roam) not an overrated feature and easy to accomplish with any other note taking tool? What kind of people are using these tools? Isn't there not heavy competition on the native app side?

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Post by 35post »

Kye wrote: post #7
cammikebrown wrote: post #2

This is fascinating and I’m not sure I quite understand it. I hadn’t heard of either of the other two services so I’m looking at those now.

Write.as is a minimal blog platform that federates over ActivityPub.

Heard about ActivityPub the first time, just checked it out briefly. Ok it' some social networking protocol, how does it relate to write.as?
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