I made a AskHN thread about building a social network, and one of the things I was asking is that we want to initially keep things constrained to North America or this time region if possible.
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
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should it have “diverse and worldwide perspectives”? Must a Muslim site be open to all Christians? Must a Japanese site admit me even though I don’t know Japanese? Should a site for Ukrainians be forced to allow Russians? I do think of this as an opportunity for you to create your own site that meets your standards, however.
You've immediately assumed that by "diverse perspectives" I mean controversial perspectives . Personally, I enjoy reading about world news, hearing about TV shows I might want to watch that aren't in my language. I enjoy reading cross-language puns and seeing photos of food I don't usually eat. I enjoy seeing people who don't worry about the things I worry about. If you don't want those things, if you don't want to k…
there is reddit for that, I want to go back to an internet thats just primarily NA, if world of warcraft classics success is anythign to stand by or old school runescape, I think its time we did this with our social networks too.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#83I’m East Coast so that works for me
I love the idea if time boxed experiences so I signed up.
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#84Sounds 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 realitie…
Most people I know are definitely not on top of their notifications like that. I'd be lucky if they respond to my texts within an hour. Even I who am on top of my notifications still somehow miss it sometimes, either because the phone was on the table or I just didn't feel the vibration.
That being said, I like it as a way to just journal a picture a day, even without any contacts in the app.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
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This sucks for anyone in a different timezone.
This feels more like a feature, not a bug. Local communities all operate in the same time zone. No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone, allowing each time zone to have their own separate communities.
It's one of the main things I miss about BBSs. I've thought about trying to start a BBS that requires a low ping, using the speed of light to encourage locality.
Expensive long-distance phone calls sucked, but the side-effect was that nearly everybody on a given board was in the same or one-adjacent local calling area. They were strangers behind a screen only to a degree; they were also your neighbors, schoolmates, and coworkers. If someone needed something, someone else could bike or drive over and help. We had parties, we had picnics, we organized camping weekends. They didn't stay strangers for long.
Yes the global internet was big and shiny and it let you talk to anyone anywhere. So far away that they might in fact be a dog, and you'd never know. But for all we gained, we lost that sense of local connection, and I didn't appreciate that aspect until it was gone.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#86Tricky hours for guy like me in Western Australia.
Ditto here.
Pretty common experience for a Western Australian though. "Hey wow that looks like an amazing webinar!" Instant disappointment when I see the hours.
Isolated in time and distance.
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#87Yeah 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.
What's wrong with having different hours for website and support? Even restaurants have different hours for drinks, food, and overall opening times.
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#88Earlier 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
People have completely lost sight of the importance of small forums.
Forums, perhaps. But small group chats (which I suppose are technically "dark") are the bedrock of the current internet writ large and where most of the content that filters up to places like Twitter comes from.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#89Yeah 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 largest camera stores in the US is https://www.bhphotovideo.com/. Since B&H was founded in NYC by Orthodox Jews, you can’t event place an order on their website on Saturdays.
Re: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
#90Ahhhh a friend and I created a similar idea for startup weekend back in 2014.
It was called Let's Get Weird.
App would open only from 11p to 4a
You were be able to chat and share pics only with nearby people
Selfies were upside down, because why not
At the end of the day period, pics, chats every thing got deleted and it was a blank slate the next day