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Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by lukasb »

jethro_tell wrote: post #243
CitrusFruits wrote: post #231

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> I can't go to slow social without all my friends coming with me, so I'm stuck with Instagram/whatsapp. This is partially correct. Slow Social would be a lot better if all your friends joined. However, my accommodation for this is that any post can be sent as en email as well. This lets you loop in people that aren't part of the network, and maybe never will be. It's not a perfect solution, but I hope it's better th…

Well, the people that I know don't read their personal email unless they are looking for a password reset or a one time code. once everyone started requiring an email as a user name, inboxes of normal people are just spam that's part of the deal for signing up for something. It's basically useless these days, but it's not technically spam because they made you click the link when you signed up. Sure you could unsubsc…

I dunno, Substack is doing pretty well.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by derekzhouzhen »

janfoeh wrote: post #218
markstos wrote: post #207

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Email has privacy controls and is decentralized. Just send HTML emails to the friends you want to get it.

Email is push, this is pull. For stuff below the threshold of breaking news ("grandma has passed"), it would feel awfully presumptuous to email people.

It is a sad world when marketers boldly blast emails to us but we feel presumptuous to send emails to each other.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by ibejoeb »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #231
gchamonlive wrote: post #226

Social Networks should be like email providers. You choose one that fits you best, or deploy your own, without having to worry not being able to communicate with others. Maybe we are long overdue for an open standard protocol for social interactions on the web. If you come to think of it, when the personal data itself isn't the property of the company behind the social network, there should be no reason not to share…

> I can't go to slow social without all my friends coming with me, so I'm stuck with Instagram/whatsapp. This is partially correct. Slow Social would be a lot better if all your friends joined. However, my accommodation for this is that any post can be sent as en email as well. This lets you loop in people that aren't part of the network, and maybe never will be. It's not a perfect solution, but I hope it's better th…

Maybe instead of a new "slow" network that enforces these rules, the consumer might want slow mode. Something that digests the fast-paced stuff. Maybe using heuristics to pare down the noisy, frivolous, or contentious stuff.

Or maybe this model and its intentional limitations is key.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by philosopher1234 »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #64
typeofhuman wrote: post #59

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If it hasn't been mentioned, you should learn from the social media app Path. It limited the amount of friends you could have. As a result, people didn't add friends because they didn't want to give up a space for a potential future connection. The scarcity worked against Path. You might find the same result where people won't post because they'll be afraid of using up their allotment when they may have a better one…

Thanks, that's a good tip! I'll definitely check them out. And yup, definitely a concern. Makes me think that perhaps there's a possibility to not cap the posts, but rather have any posts outside of the first one in a week have something like a "secondary" tag. Then again, you might run into the problem that Instagram has where everyone stopped posting as soon as stories caught on. Alas, it's a tricky problem.

Everyone should get a post refresh at the exact same time. So if you don’t use your post that week, you lose it.

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by Tepix »

philosopher1234 wrote: post #274
CitrusFruits wrote: post #64

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Thanks, that's a good tip! I'll definitely check them out. And yup, definitely a concern. Makes me think that perhaps there's a possibility to not cap the posts, but rather have any posts outside of the first one in a week have something like a "secondary" tag. Then again, you might run into the problem that Instagram has where everyone stopped posting as soon as stories caught on. Alas, it's a tricky problem.

Everyone should get a post refresh at the exact same time. So if you don’t use your post that week, you lose it.

That seems like a bad idea, i want to post shortly after an event, not wait for a week

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by gmanis »

OP, you should charge users a small amount ($24-50 a year), after a trial period. Keep it simple, free of ads and keep the timeline algorithm free.

I’m sure there are many who would love something like this and be willing to pay enough to cover costs and maybe generate a full time income for you. Good luck!!

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by philosopher1234 »

Tepix wrote: post #275
philosopher1234 wrote: post #274

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Everyone should get a post refresh at the exact same time. So if you don’t use your post that week, you lose it.

That seems like a bad idea, i want to post shortly after an event, not wait for a week

Then use twitter

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by starfoxmulder »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #68
lvl102 wrote: post #38

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Looks great and love the concept. What’s the tech stack behind it?

I'm using Supabase, Sveltekit, Tailwind, SendGrid, and Netlify. SvelteKit has been a lot of fun but definitely has a few rough edges. Supabase has been awesome, but as you can probably see, from the comments elsewhere, has some kinks around magic link based authentication.

Do you understand the underlying technologies of Supabase and these other frameworks? Just curious.

And how are you liking supabase as opposed to other quick start solutions?

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by Elll »

Heyy,I think we all need something “almost’ like that social network. Tired of all instafacebook/Tik Tok, they are just an annoying buzz. But once a week?!!! Why post just once a week? Honestly I think ppl need to post more than once a week. Well… I need …

Re: Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

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Post by trungdq88 »

For a long time, I encouraged my IRL friends to set up their personal newsletter and write once or twice a month so I can subscribe to. Quite similar to this social media idea.

I think it's a very good way of getting updates from people I care about. Social media is just too noisy.

The plan hasn't been working very well unfortunately.

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