Tricky hours for guy like me in Western Australia.
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
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Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#72Yeah I have thought about websites having "business hours" also. So support staff don't have to worry about getting a call or text message at 0200 that something isn't working... just fix it in the morning.
I literally can’t place Costco Mexico orders and perform other tasks on Sundays because payment gateways are down (?). It’s quite frustrating. If it fails every weekend, they should in fact just shut down.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I kind of like the idea of a regional social media app which literally doesn’t work in other parts of the world. It makes the space a little more special than something trying to reach everyone IMO
At the extreme level of “regional”, that’s Nextdoor.
Location-based subreddits get close to this also.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#74Yeah I have thought about websites having "business hours" also. So support staff don't have to worry about getting a call or text message at 0200 that something isn't working... just fix it in the morning.
One of the most popular sites hosted on Neocities would be closed on Mondays, so you would have to come back to see the site. https://melonking.net
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#75Make a separate instance/subdomain for each timezone
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#76I have thought about this concept of websites only available at certain hours, but for people's more prurient interests...
Imagine something like OnlyFans except instead of being accessible 24/7 for anyone to see at any time, it's only accessible at very late hours, possibly midnight to 4 AM, etc, in your time zone or whatever time zone you wish. In some cases, your content might only be available on certain days of the week.
A neat side effect of this is that if for instance you have a respectable job, but also want to do some debauchery online on the side, no one can simply go see your stuff without respecting the time zone. That means employers aren't going to be looking you up during business hours or your grandma isn't going to accidentally open up links in the middle of the day leading to your spicy content. Stalking someone online becomes a little more complicated because you now have to wait for their content to become accessible. And if someone does see your content, you know it's because they put in the effort to be there when it opens, which can be embarrassing for them to admit.
We take it for granted that information about someone is constantly available online once posted but I think the next big trends is going to be these sort of inaccessibility controls, that are not based on money.
Before you go trying to make this a business though, keep in mind a big player like OnlyFans can just make this a feature in a weekend, if they haven't already.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#77It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. I doubt giving each timezone its own 3 hours would work, but perhaps rotating the 3 hours each day so that it's anchored on a different timezone would encourage that diversity of content and perhaps even encourag…
I like the idea of users being able to pick their 3-hour window and timezone, and maybe only can change your window setting once per day (or maybe only pick a new window that starts at least 24 hours in the future). But crucially, each such 3-hour window and time zone combination has entirely isolated and independent content, as if it is a different site.
So my community could be 7:02-10:02pm EST. And if I instead switch to say 6am-9am IST instead, I can check in with the folks who like to meet in the mornings in india, but I am temporarily gone from my own local community.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#78Sounds like a variant of the "BeReal" concept: "Its main feature is a daily notification that encourages users to share photos of themselves with friends in their day-to-day life, given a randomly selected two-minute window every day." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeReal
Having used it, BeReal sort've gets close to this, but in reality people are posting the entire day after that two-minute window and people can still react to your photos throughout the day.
Not everyone ends up posting within that two minute window and the only "punishment" for not doing so is that it just says they posted late.
BeReal is a great concept regardless, just pointing out the differences and the realities of it.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#79Time zones are a problem. It will be 5am for me next time this will be open which is too early but since it opens for 3 hours, I might be able to check in for the second half of the remaining time.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#80Yeah I have thought about websites having "business hours" also. So support staff don't have to worry about getting a call or text message at 0200 that something isn't working... just fix it in the morning.
B&H famously closes online checkout weekly: Online Checkout Open 24/6 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/HelpCenter/StoreInfo.jsp
IIRC it's because the owners are Jewish and observing the Sabbath. I grew up in an area with a lot of observant christians who refused to work on Sunday but forced employees to (unless you belonged to their church of course). So making a rule in contrast that what's good enough for me is good enough for my employees is preferable if you ask me!