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This is cool, but I kind of see the use case a little different. I'd like to be able to receive a message like this on my phone once a day, just as a notification, at a time of my choosing. It would still be a random anonymous message, but it would be interesting because everyday I would receive some random/hilarious crap from someone elsewhere in the world.
It could make a nice companion app for the site actually.
This is cool, but I kind of see the use case a little different. I'd like to be able to receive a message like this on my phone once a day, just as a notification, at a time of my choosing. It would still be a random anonymous message, but it would be interesting because everyday I would receive some random/hilarious crap from someone elsewhere in the world.
Nice idea, It could make a nice companion app for the site actually.
You could actually convert this into some kind of social network. Just enable people to follow each other in some sense, i.e. their messages appear in your feed with higher probability or so. It's nice and somewhat artistic to follow other persons only based on what they say/said, not based on who they are.
We think alike, that's been on the todo list for a while :) Thanks for the input!
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We think alike, that's been on the todo list for a while :) Thanks for the input!
Along those lines: people's handles could be more memorable but still random. Maybe something like the github repository name recommender. "Oh, great, another post from ice-badger-weasel-fox, I love those!"
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Thanks for the comment, and I agree, it's very bare-bones right now. In an ideal world, what would a product like this look like when fully fleshed-out?
Not quite building off of your current system, but I've long wanted a service where I could log-in and be approved to participate anonymously in conversations that are still somewhat moderated. "? &%$#?#$& ?", you ask. There are a lot of sites that I participate in that allow you to rate and flag other users (e.g. HN). I actually really like this ability. But frequently I want to make many posts to such site, but I d…
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The god login is really an interesting idea ! Could you elaborate on your choice about the random feed?
I like the idea of a random, or semi-random, feed of content that the user has no real control over. You don't get to build yourself an echo-chamber. It's actually mostly inspired by postsecret.com in that way. People submit things, a feed is generated (or curated, in the case of PostSecret). EDIT: I think later on we could introduce a form of upvoting, which would influence the odds of a given thought (or further th…
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Thanks for the comment, and I agree, it's very bare-bones right now. In an ideal world, what would a product like this look like when fully fleshed-out?
Not quite building off of your current system, but I've long wanted a service where I could log-in and be approved to participate anonymously in conversations that are still somewhat moderated. "? &%$#?#$& ?", you ask. There are a lot of sites that I participate in that allow you to rate and flag other users (e.g. HN). I actually really like this ability. But frequently I want to make many posts to such site, but I d…
You could actually convert this into some kind of social network. Just enable people to follow each other in some sense, i.e. their messages appear in your feed with higher probability or so. It's nice and somewhat artistic to follow other persons only based on what they say/said, not based on who they are.
We think alike, that's been on the todo list for a while :) Thanks for the input!
Hi HN. I made this over the last few months. The idea is to have an activity feed which is randomly generated, and only refreshes once every 24 hours. The auth system incorporates some ideas discussed in this thread (The God Login): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8861800 I'm happy to answer any questions!
I'm confused about why a person would want to use this? If I only get a random "tweet" every 24 hours that lacks context, I don't see myself coming back often. Two suggestions: 1. Allow the user to configure how often they get new thoughts. 2. Allow voting so that hopefully the random thoughts that are actually worth reading propagate out and people are reading something worth reading.
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I like the idea of a random, or semi-random, feed of content that the user has no real control over. You don't get to build yourself an echo-chamber. It's actually mostly inspired by postsecret.com in that way. People submit things, a feed is generated (or curated, in the case of PostSecret). EDIT: I think later on we could introduce a form of upvoting, which would influence the odds of a given thought (or further th…
How about restrict the upvoting too? You're only allowed to upvote/recommend a single post per day :)