My close circle has settled on HalloApp, because we mostly want to share pictures of our adventures, kids and dogs. We don't really need/want to "chat" (I fully realize lots of people do). That said, we're all a bit of tired of trying out new social apps.
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#82Hey James, Congrats on launching! Great minds think alike. I also have a similar app (heh, also called "Circles") still in beta at https://testflight.apple.com/join/cwsJZed9 There's also now MinesTRIX from a guy Henri Carnot in France. https://minestrix.henri2h.fr/ Don't let the haters on HN get you down. (Although, hey, you're getting more traction here than I did. Go you!) But either way, the geeks are not the audi…
Thanks, Charles!
We actually had a call a few months ago, September I believe. I'm also in your Circles Matrix room!
Haters are great, always good to have an opposite opinion and people feel strongly enough to write something (whether good or bad)!
Agreed on that though, shoot me an email! You should also get speaking to Jackson (https://twitter.com/otherJackson) who's working on data standards for the web as a whole.
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#83Does this app integrate with existing standards for social networks like ActivityPub or XMPP?
It doesn't! Which services do you use that are built with these standards?
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#84The "Landing: " link is not working.
Strange, thanks for bumping this. It works with copy paste so I must have done something with the formatting.
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#85If I'm understanding this correctly, it's possible for someone to try to share something with me, but I will not see it because I don't have them tagged? It seems the bidirectional graph means very little will end up getting shared. And if there is little content, why would it need to be behind a walled garden?
And also, how does this solve the problem of people being fake and posing on social media?
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#86Google+ had circles as well. I found it very hard to properly segment people properly. There are rarely such hard boundaries on relationships. If I'm snowboarding or barbecuing, it's very seldom I only wanna share that with just friends, just family, or just co-workers. It will usually be much more interest-based. Trying to create interested-based circles was also hard, as the cardinality explodes quite fast (and you…
Thanks, I get what you're saying here. Often times I find myself adding people to two circles or more. Although there is the option to create new circles I generally recommend keeping close to the existing circles that are created with each account.
On that point we also offer a quick/simple mechanism for sharing to specific contacts. So you're able to share to circles and/or specific contacts.
If you try the app, I would be keen to hear your feedback. Shoot me an email if that is the case.
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#87I'm a big fan of people trying to make new social networks, but personally I'm not interested in any new system not built on open protocols. Otherwise incentives are such that it's just going to turn into Facebook eventually.
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#88Not to rain on your specific parade but I think enough "sharing" options have emerged (whether through regular chat, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, let alone existing social networks) that I'm not sure what this is trying to solve. Looking at your first five features on the landing page: I already have a set of grouped contacts across different apps ( Circles, Private Interactions) all with encryption (Encrypted Posts) a…
I disagree here. I strongly believe there's a market for a better social media app, that messaging apps are not hitting. Why? messaging apps (chat, discord, WhatsApp, Signal) are not really social media - they're organized differently with communication at the center and content sharing on the edge (as opposed to Facebook, with content sharing at the center and communication on the edge).
That edge v. center distinction dictates the use patterns, and social media is therefore used differently than a chat app. With a chat app, the social media aspect is drowned out by the sheer volume of communication, largely text based and not media based.
But why is there a market? There is a growing movement to get away from Meta-based social media apps, because they're incredibly addictive and rob users of their attention / time. That being said, I still want to see what my friends are doing... but I'm sick of needing to choose between getting life updates from friends or having my brain back.
Build me a platform that isn't Meta-based and isn't addictive and lets me share fun things with my friends and I'll gladly pay a monthly fee for it.
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#89Thanks for sharing! I think the idea is great (Usually new social media networks have some good underlying idea) but how are you going to overcome the massive hurdle of getting people to join a new social media network? Many people says they "hate" social media, in reality everyone is still using it and it's very hard to even convince people (even close family) to use another messenger even though the barrier is way…
IMO the way to succeed as a new social network is to use the Slack approach. Make your tool useful to small organizations and communities, and then connect instances later. Slack is useful to my team even if no one else uses it, but it's nice to be able to invite anyone who uses slack into our channels.
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#90Not to rain on your specific parade but I think enough "sharing" options have emerged (whether through regular chat, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, let alone existing social networks) that I'm not sure what this is trying to solve. Looking at your first five features on the landing page: I already have a set of grouped contacts across different apps ( Circles, Private Interactions) all with encryption (Encrypted Posts) a…
I disagree here. I strongly believe there's a market for a better social media app, that messaging apps are not hitting. Why? messaging apps (chat, discord, WhatsApp, Signal) are not really social media - they're organized differently with communication at the center and content sharing on the edge (as opposed to Facebook, with content sharing at the center and communication on the edge). That edge v. center distinct…
Telegram is very much about content sharing. News, hobby groups, paid adult content, crypto scams, memes - it has it all. Although primarily in Russian.