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Hey everyone - we're working on Hmsklt.app to help friends form deeper relationships and more authentic connection. - Join a small group of friends for a 7-day

by bchhor 5y ago

Hey everyone - we're working on Hmsklt.app to help friends form deeper relationships and more authentic connection. - Join a small group of friends for a 7-day "bonfire" centered around a theme like Daily Gratitudes, Small Moments in Your Day, Weird Fun Stories, Self Love, Childhood Memories, or Highlights + Lowlights. - Each day, the group will get a prompt to respond with short videos — a chance to reflect on the topics and small moments that you wouldn’t normally ask about. After the 7 days, you can choose to have the videos disappear or save them to celebrate your friendships. We want to make it less awkward to be vulnerable and build authentic connections with the people who matter to you. No influencers, no posing, no filters -- just sharing small moments and good stories with your friends. It sucks to be connected to thousands of people on social media but still feel so lonely. Having been personally affected by loneliness and mental health, we wanted to build tools to boost mental wellness that are less intense than therapy/medication. We're currently in private beta and would really appreciate any feedback to help us make the app a warm and supportive experience.

ewidar 5y ago
Hey! How does the beta access work? Shouldn't I be able to join together with my friends in the Beta?
- bchhor 5y ago
  Hey! If you sign up for the email list, we'll send you a TestFlight beta link for the app and you can invite your friends from within the app.
  - yoavm 5y ago
    iOS only?
    - bchhor 5y ago
      Yep, iOS only for now
      - smoldesu 5y ago
        That seems like a pretty big oversight, particularly for an app that's intended for bringing people together. Now my first discussion with my friend group isn't "who wants to use this new app," but instead "who has an iPhone and wants to dogfood this person's social media app without the rest of our friends?" It's an awful lot of friction for a medium that relies on viral propagation.
mlang23 5y ago
"Daily Gratitudes", "Self Love"... This sort of curated communication reminds me a lot about how it feels to be around believers... It makes me shiver. Authentic communication cant be based on a framework of acceptable topics preselected by, well, whom? Besides, less screen time is the only way to go to strengthen friendships.
- Avicebron 5y ago
  Agreed, I just had a strong stomach churn thinking about the slightly crazy eyed, chipper, vision board writing, medium article writing, HR types who who act like they're some kind of middle school camp counselor..."Today, tell me three things that made you sad, silly me..it's the 2021? Take a selfie of yourself telling your friends what makes you sad" f'ng yikes.
someguydave 5y ago
The stories prompted by this app will be very personal. Shouldn’t they be protected from third parties? Encryption with a shared symmetric key sounds reasonable?
zelos 5y ago
"... Stories, Self Love, Childhood..." I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable posting videos of that to my friends...
- melony 5y ago
  OnlyFriends
magicalhippo 5y ago
> It sucks to be connected to thousands of people on social media but still feel so lonely. Having been personally affected by loneliness and mental health, we wanted to build tools to boost mental wellness that are less intense than therapy/medication. I'm struggling to see how to bootstrap this. Like if one guy in a groups says "hey let's use this new app to become better friends" and the others are just fine with the status quo, won't it be very awkward? And if the group has decided "hey let's do this to become better friends", do they really need this over a discord, hike or some other activity? I found it was enough to just talk to people... but I guess my experience is not universal. Personally I'd find it very awkward to use such an app, it would feel very forced and artificial, but if it helps someone then I say awesome!
shpongled 5y ago
> no posing > "Weird Fun Stories", "Highlights + Lowlights" Good luck, but I have to say this is one of the weirdest sounding apps I have heard of, and something I (and probably most of my friends) would never use. I don't see how forcing conversation around some kind of "theme" produces "authentic" and "deep" connections - those are things that only come organically

by bchhor 5y ago

ewidar 5y ago

Hey! How does the beta access work? Shouldn't I be able to join together with my friends in the Beta?

bchhor 5y ago
Hey! If you sign up for the email list, we'll send you a TestFlight beta link for the app and you can invite your friends from within the app.
- yoavm 5y ago
  iOS only?
  - bchhor 5y ago
    Yep, iOS only for now
    - smoldesu 5y ago
      That seems like a pretty big oversight, particularly for an app that's intended for bringing people together. Now my first discussion with my friend group isn't "who wants to use this new app," but instead "who has an iPhone and wants to dogfood this person's social media app without the rest of our friends?" It's an awful lot of friction for a medium that relies on viral propagation.

mlang23 5y ago

"Daily Gratitudes", "Self Love"... This sort of curated communication reminds me a lot about how it feels to be around believers... It makes me shiver. Authentic communication cant be based on a framework of acceptable topics preselected by, well, whom? Besides, less screen time is the only way to go to strengthen friendships.

Avicebron 5y ago
Agreed, I just had a strong stomach churn thinking about the slightly crazy eyed, chipper, vision board writing, medium article writing, HR types who who act like they're some kind of middle school camp counselor..."Today, tell me three things that made you sad, silly me..it's the 2021? Take a selfie of yourself telling your friends what makes you sad" f'ng yikes.

someguydave 5y ago

The stories prompted by this app will be very personal. Shouldn’t they be protected from third parties? Encryption with a shared symmetric key sounds reasonable?

zelos 5y ago

"... Stories, Self Love, Childhood..." I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable posting videos of that to my friends...

melony 5y ago
OnlyFriends

magicalhippo 5y ago

> It sucks to be connected to thousands of people on social media but still feel so lonely. Having been personally affected by loneliness and mental health, we wanted to build tools to boost mental wellness that are less intense than therapy/medication. I'm struggling to see how to bootstrap this. Like if one guy in a groups says "hey let's use this new app to become better friends" and the others are just fine with the status quo, won't it be very awkward? And if the group has decided "hey let's do this to become better friends", do they really need this over a discord, hike or some other activity? I found it was enough to just talk to people... but I guess my experience is not universal. Personally I'd find it very awkward to use such an app, it would feel very forced and artificial, but if it helps someone then I say awesome!

shpongled 5y ago

> no posing > "Weird Fun Stories", "Highlights + Lowlights" Good luck, but I have to say this is one of the weirdest sounding apps I have heard of, and something I (and probably most of my friends) would never use. I don't see how forcing conversation around some kind of "theme" produces "authentic" and "deep" connections - those are things that only come organically