Website design and intro video look nice.
Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
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#112- your landing page says 'On Circles, your data is encrypted at rest. This means no ads or questionable business.', how does data being encrypted relate to 'no ads'? - asking for contacts while saying nothing about how you monetize is a huge red flag to me - since you are already using cross platform JS framework, how about making it available as a PWA? or maybe provide apk directly? google store doesn't cover a size…
- Ads on any sort of app are generally targeted. Meaning they use personal information, including browsing history, to serve you specific ads that you are more likely to click on. By encrypting data at rest and, asking for little personal information, we purposely make it more difficult for us as a company to serve targeted ads. Ideally it would be impossible and this is what we aim for in the short term. - Fair poin…
I think you need to clarify what you mean by at rest. You mention browser history but it's not clear to me if you mean that it's encrypted in the browser. If you mean it's encrypted within your data store on your servers, that's great for security but doesn't really address the ad concern. I'm assuming you hold the encryption keys. If that's the case, you can decrypt the users' data in your data store for ad targeting purposes.
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#113Congrats! Tell us about your software stack
Super simple, I didn't know how to code 18 months ago so when we started (was just I at that point), I stared building with what I could. The front end is built with React Native (JS) as it provides a way for us to more or less maintain two OS with one codebase. It also is somewhat simple for us to convert out code for web with react-native-web. We do use a series of community build packages (more than I would like)…
Aw man, sorry to hear that Matrix didn't work out for you. There's definitely a cost to building on an early-stage technology with a lot of its own complexity. (Heh, ask me how I know...)
Still, super impressed at what you've built.
Looking forward to syncing up soon!
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#114Small grammatical error on your home page: "Less connections, more connection." - should be "fewer" not "less".
I was wondering why that wasn't reading right to me...
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just go try it out?
How to try a social-sharing-network thing without the social-network? All that does is share content with nobody. To what? Practice pressing the share button in yet-another app? (I'm sure the workflow is common as the others)
Let's agree that spending 3 minutes typing an essay asking "what does it do" could be better spent actually evaluating the product and reporting back with info for the rest of us
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> frowned upon in HN to talk monetization early, it is? Would you pay for a subscription to a social network without ads? Doesn't seem too far from an actuality
This depends directly on whether my friends will pay to be on that network. Game servers are a great example. I will pay if my friends are also on the same server. The problem is, there are way too many free options for us to organize. And this doesn't bring anything to the table which is spectacular.
Great points.
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#117Hey 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 who…
That's so funny. I had a call with Charles 7 months ago and immediately thought of him when I saw this. Come back a day later and he's here!
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> frowned upon in HN to talk monetization early, it is? Would you pay for a subscription to a social network without ads? Doesn't seem too far from an actuality
This depends directly on whether my friends will pay to be on that network. Game servers are a great example. I will pay if my friends are also on the same server. The problem is, there are way too many free options for us to organize. And this doesn't bring anything to the table which is spectacular.
What would you consider spectacular? Social network app that delivers crack cocaine by a drone? The grail of immortality?
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
This depends directly on whether my friends will pay to be on that network. Game servers are a great example. I will pay if my friends are also on the same server. The problem is, there are way too many free options for us to organize. And this doesn't bring anything to the table which is spectacular.
What would you consider spectacular? Social network app that delivers crack cocaine by a drone? The grail of immortality?
I think you're on to something
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#120Honestly I loved the idea of Google Plus and I'm glad you picked it up.