Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

#1

Post by andrewmatte » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser
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Re: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

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Post by andrewmatte » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

Post directly on a page for the rest of the community to see. Share privately or publicly, reply, like, mention your friends, hashstag your interests.

Mobile app built in Flutter, backend with python+postgres+redis

Your public posts get showcased on a board like this: https://prod.hvr.world/profile?referrerId=58&u=Andreud&inten...

Re: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

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Post by binarynate » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 10:05 PM UTC

What's the business model for this product? Although I like the idea of social browsing, I'm extremely hesitant to give a closed-source product full access to my browsing history out of fear that my data will be sold or handled carelessly.

Re: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

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Post by geoelectric » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 10:22 PM UTC

Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon from back in the day.

Re: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

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Post by andrewmatte » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:33 PM UTC

binarynate wrote: post #3

What's the business model for this product? Although I like the idea of social browsing, I'm extremely hesitant to give a closed-source product full access to my browsing history out of fear that my data will be sold or handled carelessly.

Eventually ads but, as the head of tech of this venture, we have no plans to sell browsing history. Also, we've taken care to never expose your email address. Deleting a post genuinely deletes the data from our database, unless the post has been reported as violating standards. What other privacy concerns would you like to see addressed?

Re: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

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Post by andrewmatte » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:34 PM UTC

geoelectric wrote: post #4

Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon from back in the day.

I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

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Post by mekster » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 5:46 AM UTC

binarynate wrote: post #3

What's the business model for this product? Although I like the idea of social browsing, I'm extremely hesitant to give a closed-source product full access to my browsing history out of fear that my data will be sold or handled carelessly.

The way Brave have been acting, I don't see there's any room for a random company to produce any browsers.

Re: Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

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Post by geoelectric » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

andrewmatte wrote: post #6

geoelectric wrote: post #4

Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon from back in the day.

I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks.

It's certainly not an insult, more of an everything old is new again type thing.

Universal commenting has always made a lot of sense to me. As applied to casual web-surfing, the concept reminds me of the logbooks I used to see hiking the Trail and whatnot. They get a little noisy after awhile would be my one comment.