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Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#101

Post by q-base »

louispereira wrote: post #74
q-base wrote: post #65

I signed up. I actually have 2 personal blogs, so I am unsure about whether I will use your platform. But there is something about the unfiltered short format that I like and even though I have thought about publishing shorter style posts on my own blogs, I for some reason never get to it. I am a big fan of the design as well! Nice job.

Thank you! If you're curious about how to use it, I personally use it as a layer 1 for my thoughts. It helps me think about them more deeply than I would otherwise do if I was just talking to myself or writing in a private journal. Eventually, I plan on taking some thoughts and graduating them into full blown blog posts on my main website.

I can see the value. The interesting thing is whether people will notice and follow along. But of course just the act of writing in a setting where people potentially will read it makes you think a little more thoroughly even of "random" thoughts.

I think you should consider making tags case-insensitive. I would just lowercase them all :)

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#102

Post by louispereira »

stokesr wrote: post #100

The site looks gorgeous, fair play. I've seen from the comments that you're looking for people's envisaged use cases, so here's mine - I have moved about a lot, I'm currently living abroad. In a few months time, everyone will start moving about again. This seems like a brilliant way to keep up with friends that I can't see very often, in a way that seems more genuine than the loop of "Hey we haven't talked in ages! H…

Hey. I had a conversation with one of my closest friends a few days ago, and this is exactly how I described what I want Nicheless to become.

I wrote something similar here that might resonate: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

I stumbled upon this use case almost by accident, when a few of my IRL friends published stuff on Nicheless. I realised I looked forward to reading what they were upto or thinking about. And then figured other people might like the same experience.

Thank you for sharing that you think about it similarly.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by louispereira »

ashtavakra wrote: post #88
louispereira wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey! I just noticed that! You're the first person to write in a different script, so it's not a problem I experienced until now. Will figure out a way to make the URL neater by default, although you can currently edit it as well. Btw, I'm also Indian (from Goa) so it's amazing to see posts in one of our many regional languages :)

Ah nice to know :) I was able to edit the URL, thanks!

Cheers :)

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#107

Post by rchaud »

stokesr wrote: post #100

The site looks gorgeous, fair play. I've seen from the comments that you're looking for people's envisaged use cases, so here's mine - I have moved about a lot, I'm currently living abroad. In a few months time, everyone will start moving about again. This seems like a brilliant way to keep up with friends that I can't see very often, in a way that seems more genuine than the loop of "Hey we haven't talked in ages! H…

You've put into words the issue I've been having keeping up with friends I don't see often. Scheduled calls are too hard to do, and the awkwardness of those "hey how's it going" messages isn't much better.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#108

Post by louispereira »

reacharavindh wrote: post #97
louispereira wrote: post #14

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls. I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same.…

I really like the minimal design of Nicheless. I made my first post - https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well Two questions come to mind. 1. It appears that url for a post is simply based on title of the post and not connected to the user. Wouldn't this mean that no two posts can have the. same title? As in if smoother user tried to write a post titled "learn-one-thing-well", they can't? 2. One of the reason…

Hey! Thank you for giving Nicheless a try. I read your post a little while ago :)

Regarding your questions:

1. The URL will auto generate and append a digit to the end in case the title of the post has already been taken before.

2. I don't think of Nicheless as a replacement for a personal website or blog (I have both, maintained separately). I want Nicheless to be a place for more experimental thoughts. A space for ideas, a minority of which graduate into more polished articles on your personal blog. Also, I want Nicheless to be a place that facilitates exchange of thoughts and ideas between existing social connections, both IRL and online, and not with the primary focus being the open network on the internet (like Twitter). I've written a bit about it here:https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

I'm aware that the positioning of the platform is still a bit fuzzy, and a lot of my goals aren't exactly obvious to users, but I'm going to work to improve on that.

Thank you for giving it a try, and for taking the time to leave your feedback here :)

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

#109

Post by louispereira »

louispereira wrote: post #108
reacharavindh wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the minimal design of Nicheless. I made my first post - https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well Two questions come to mind. 1. It appears that url for a post is simply based on title of the post and not connected to the user. Wouldn't this mean that no two posts can have the. same title? As in if smoother user tried to write a post titled "learn-one-thing-well", they can't? 2. One of the reason…

Hey! Thank you for giving Nicheless a try. I read your post a little while ago :) Regarding your questions: 1. The URL will auto generate and append a digit to the end in case the title of the post has already been taken before. 2. I don't think of Nicheless as a replacement for a personal website or blog (I have both, maintained separately). I want Nicheless to be a place for more experimental thoughts. A space for…

Also, I forgot to mention. I don't have any plans of getting $$ from VCs as of now. Nicheless is a side project that I run because I believe it should exist. I hope that doesn't change in the future, unless I have no other option.

Re: Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform

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Post by rchaud »

I like the landing page and the example posts. 300 words is a good middle ground between the twitter firehose and SEO-baiting thoughtfluencer essays on Medium.com.

But, Twitter too was once simple and hassle-free.

What happens if this takes off and some crypto-chastened VC starts sniffing around?

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