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Requiring a login to see anything at all is too much friction for this kind of thing. (Or at least I couldn't find a link that let to content from the main page without logging in.) The UI is nice though. Minimal dead space in the comments.
I've still got plenty of work to do on the UX of the site!
The main page shouldn't be login-walled. I don't want to create an account just to find out what kind of content this community has and how active it is.
Fair. I removed login requirements for browsing. You should be able to see all posts here: https://non.io/#all As a disclaimer, this is truly me just launching today, there's only 4 posts currently.
The content will come later; most of the Reddit alternatives I've looked at look godawful, yours is the only one I've liked. So many people get the compact and minimal comments look wrong.
How far are you willing to go to defend this? There's been lots of technical talk in this thread so far, but I'm curious on this portion.
So far I'm LOVING the UI. I actually think you should drop the payment part ASAP and just push for more users in the standard social media format.
I also think a staggered release of new "tags" is a fantastic idea, but needs to scale ASAP (until the site is ready for users to create their own hashtags/subreddits)
EDIT: After using this more, it's so exciting and fun to see something so new and fresh. It really feels like I'm back in 2010.
Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network e…
Also you should advertise that this is an open-source project on the landing page, as that may cause more people to be interested in trying it out.
You should post this on /r/RedditAlternatives/ as well if you haven't already. Also, clickable link: https://non.io/#all
I did, but they weren't a fan of the paid model for interaction: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/147qzfb...
* The website to be free
* The API to be cheap
* The ability to use a 3rd party app that does not track, advertise, or monetize you in any way
* VCs to continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars to run the site and never ask for an ROI
Good luck kids
Some other fun tidbits: I'm trying to make this an API-first service, with the frontend being just a representation of how to use it. Because of that, I wanted to make the frontend as reusable/refactorable as possible, regardless of frontend framework. I relied on webcomponents for everything, and the full app is a SPA built purely in vanilla js. I'd never recommend anyone take that approach, it was masochistic. Use…
Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network e…
Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network e…
> without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network effect I think the ONLY value any of these these have is network effect. All those other things you listed are either irrelevant or come after the n…