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Show HN: A social network like Myspace, built on top of Notion
- olah_1 4y agoIs there a page that explains how it is built? or how it works? There might be, but I can’t see it on mobile
- Jonovono 4y agoNot yet, I actually just whipped it up quickly last week after I was browsing the Notion subreddit and it reminded me of myspace. These are the tools I used: * BlitzJS (https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz) * Official Notion API * React Notion X (https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x)
- stavros 4y agoDoes the Notion API allow you to access arbitrary pages yet? Last I checked, it only let you access ones you explicitly shared with the app.
- Jonovono 4y agoThey have a authorization flow that lets the user select the pages to expose to the integration (https://developers.notion.com/docs/authorization#standard-integration-permissions-flow https://developers.notion.com/docs/authorization#standard-in...) You'll notice I still ask you to make the page public, that's only because the unofficial `getPage` is more complete than Notions right now
- stavros 4y agoAh, thanks. Sounds like their API is still fairly limited, huh.
- sn0n 4y agohttps://mynotion.space/space/9 https://mynotion.space/space/9 first 10!!! Woot woot. Looks fun so far.
- Jonovono 4y agoNice! haha thanks for checking it out! I noticed an error in my Duplication template, so I think I was creating too many per user. You are most likely around first 5 users ;p
- gardenhedge 4y agoWhat is Notion?
- Jonovono 4y agoIt's a text editor app, but it has many built in widgets. So you can embed text, images, photos, figma, spotify and others https://www.notion.so https://www.notion.so So, instead of editing HTML to create your space like you did on Myspace, you can customize it with all the tools Notion has already built. Notion has a big community, 200k+ on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/
- gardenhedge 4y agoSo it's like confluence?
- stavros 4y agoIt's a closed note-taking app, so if Notion doesn't like this site, it stops existing. Calling it a text editor hides this fact, I think.
- Jonovono 4y agoFair enough, think of this as an MVP of the idea. Ideally I have something similar to Notion, but with widgets built specifically for social.
- koinedad 4y agoA fairly robust online note tool, https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/notion-can-almost-replace-apple-notes https://technicallychallenged.substack.com/p/notion-can-almo...
- rouxz 4y agoa slightly better version of Obsidian for people who don't really like markdown
- RobotToaster 4y agoIf this was open source and federated with activitypub it would be a killer app IMO.
- rouxz 4y agofederated apps never really took off imo, maybe because it matters only for a small fraction of people who's concerned about security or selfhosting or whatsoever else tech people care about nowadays
- mro_name 4y agoit's sad that in your eyes federated is tied to techie.
- IshKebab 4y agoYou mean it's sad that federation is tied to being a techie? His observation is clearly correct.
- mro_name 4y agoWhat's scary/techie about servers communicating? How to change that and make federation fearless?
- IshKebab 4y agoNothings scary about it. The techie thing is that most people simply do not care about it. My mum does not care that email is federated but WhatsApp isn't. She just uses them. If anything federation is worse for the average user because it leads to more spam and ossified protocols (does IRC support images yet?).
- mro_name 4y agofair enough, but how can a 'network' be 'social' if there is only one provider. ('Thou shall not have others before me'). Making means of communication a matter of taste of those who don't care won't yield good results. That's what brought us into that surveillance capitalism mess.
- partyguy 4y agoWow! Pretty impressive that the whole thing is based on notion! MySpace nostalgia is still very very big. I actually rebuilt the original MySpace last year and called it "SpaceHey" (with blogs, forums, customizable profiles with css, bulletins, etc.) - it has over 550k users already and is still growsing rapidly. Pretty crazy!
- Jonovono 4y agoHey An ;p I'm a big fan of what you built with SpaceHey (user #2315). Happy to hear Spacehey has kept growing since I heard about it! I definitely agree the nostalgia is big, and I think just people are into having more customizability. I was browsing the Notion subreddit and it reminded me so much of Myspace. And then I had the idea to combine the two, so whatever your Notion space looks like, your 'social' page will reflect that. Will see where it goes, but it was fun little project to build!
- alexchantavy 4y agoPretty fun hit of nostalgia. I feel like FB/IG/whatever have lost a lot of what made it fun to share things about yourself or personalize your page in a creative way.
- mxwsn 4y agoIn what sense is this a social network? From examples it looks like personal pages made in notion. But no friends list or commenting on other people's content?
- Jonovono 4y agoYa, fair enough. I'm still figuring out how I want to do those features. Plan was to hopefully find some people into the idea from here and riff on some ways to implement those :)
- daniel_iversen 4y agoGeoCities v2!! :-) EDIT: for the younger generation GeoCities was (or seemed like) the place to build your homepage on the WWW on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities .. now they should implement Webrings too! (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring) and page counters and in particular online guestbooks!
- kixiQu 4y agoThe younger generation seems unexpectedly into it: https://neocities.org https://neocities.org
- noduerme 4y agopeople forget how the older generation - people sentient in the 90s - mostly didn't even know what the internet was, and that those who did and sought to profit from it were rapacious scoundrels. People who made awesome websites and appreciated other ones were always in a tiny subculture minority.
- kixiQu 4y agoTruth! I treat Olia Lialina as the prime academic expert on this: https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-me/ https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-m... > There was no time in the history of the Web when building your home was celebrated and acknowledged by opinion leaders. The idea that you should invest time in building your corners of cyberspace was mercilessly suppressed by hosting service providers and “fathers” of the Internet.
- ChildOfChaos 4y agohaha i used to have a Geocities page, does that make me old? :(
- jayp 4y agoMaybe but angelfire page makes you even older.
- GrumpyNl 4y agoHug of HN, it doesnt load anymore.
- anaganisk 4y agoI dont think 100 people accessing from HN, will crash notion.
- pwned1 4y agoCareful, "myspace" is trademarked and it's likely you'll need to come up with a name less confusingly similar, if they decide to enforce their mark.