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Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project

Hey folks! I'm Louis – the builder (founder?) of Nicheless. I'm not sure how it got here, but I'm grateful that it did. Nicheless is a fun little side project I created for people to share their thoughts with the world without needing to be performative or afraid of trolls. I'm a firm believer that writing online is a great way to improve your thinking, and I'm hoping Nicheless encourages more people to do the same. Happy to answer any questions you may have, and grateful that you took the time to try it out.

xmonkee 4y ago
I love it. Just made my first post. Is there a way to discover other writers? Edit: jk, just found the "discover" section
- louispereira 4y ago
  Awesome. What do you plan on writing about? I'm curious about the use cases people have, because they're often surprisingly (and pleasantly) different from mine. I mainly use it to think through things or share experiences, but I've seen people use it as an anonymous public journal, as a photography blog, or even as a public notebook for their poetry.
mintysoap 4y ago
I really like this, and I like the first few random posts I read. Is there a way to view the newest public posts? Discover seems to show random posts from months ago.
- louispereira 4y ago
  The discover page is currently just a bunch of manually curated posts from the platform. I don't want to create a feed of the latest posts because a lot of folks are just experimenting on the platform and it will end up being an overwhelming, incoherent feed, something that i'm trying to actively design against. My goal is to have people invite their friends and other people they know to write on the platform, and follow their nicheless blogs. When that is the case, the default feed will end up being populated with posts that will be more contextual. However, I will admit I am not sure how to reach this goal just yet. It's still early days and I'm still experimenting. Happy to hear any ideas :)
  - mintysoap 4y ago
    Maybe a random post button? I sort of like the idea of experiencing the overwhelming incoherentness. I often find interesting stuff when clicking the “new” button on HN.
yawnxyz 4y ago
I found your project through Dense Discovery (https://www.densediscovery.com/ https://www.densediscovery.com/) and fell in love with it, and I thought more people should discover it!
- louispereira 4y ago
  Thank you so much for sharing it here. You made my day, and possibly my week/month. Grateful.
  - ozdevi 4y ago
    I've subscribed but I got this error while activate my subscription "The requested URL was not found on this server."
dmitriid 4y ago
Looks nice but... Why dies it take up to two seconds to display author name on the explore page? :) Edit: and all other pages.
- louispereira 4y ago
  On it. I hope it's faster now.
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    It is!
    - louispereira 4y ago
      Phew!
chrisfrantz 4y ago
Congrats on launching Louis!
- louispereira 4y ago
  Thanks, Chris! I didn't launch here though, I was just pleasantly surprised because a kind soul decided to share it :)
reacharavindh 4y ago
I really like the minimal design of Nicheless. I made my first post - https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well Two questions come to mind. 1. It appears that url for a post is simply based on title of the post and not connected to the user. Wouldn't this mean that no two posts can have the. same title? As in if smoother user tried to write a post titled "learn-one-thing-well", they can't? 2. One of the reasons I keep my personal website+blog is because I'm wary of services that offer a nice place to write and then write a blog post "It was a great journey..... but now we got $$ from VCs or company X , so Byeee.". Nicheless looks very nice almost wanting me to suppress that concern, but it still is a legitimate concern. Do you have any thoughts for users like me? Cheers on a nice project! You must be very proud of your work!
- louispereira 4y ago
  Hey! Thank you for giving Nicheless a try. I read your post a little while ago :) Regarding your questions: 1. The URL will auto generate and append a digit to the end in case the title of the post has already been taken before. 2. I don't think of Nicheless as a replacement for a personal website or blog (I have both, maintained separately). I want Nicheless to be a place for more experimental thoughts. A space for ideas, a minority of which graduate into more polished articles on your personal blog. Also, I want Nicheless to be a place that facilitates exchange of thoughts and ideas between existing social connections, both IRL and online, and not with the primary focus being the open network on the internet (like Twitter). I've written a bit about it here:https://nicheless.blog/post/mission https://nicheless.blog/post/mission I'm aware that the positioning of the platform is still a bit fuzzy, and a lot of my goals aren't exactly obvious to users, but I'm going to work to improve on that. Thank you for giving it a try, and for taking the time to leave your feedback here :)
  - louispereira 4y ago
    Also, I forgot to mention. I don't have any plans of getting $$ from VCs as of now. Nicheless is a side project that I run because I believe it should exist. I hope that doesn't change in the future, unless I have no other option.

xmonkee 4y ago

I love it. Just made my first post. Is there a way to discover other writers? Edit: jk, just found the "discover" section

louispereira 4y ago
Awesome. What do you plan on writing about? I'm curious about the use cases people have, because they're often surprisingly (and pleasantly) different from mine. I mainly use it to think through things or share experiences, but I've seen people use it as an anonymous public journal, as a photography blog, or even as a public notebook for their poetry.

mintysoap 4y ago

I really like this, and I like the first few random posts I read. Is there a way to view the newest public posts? Discover seems to show random posts from months ago.

louispereira 4y ago
The discover page is currently just a bunch of manually curated posts from the platform. I don't want to create a feed of the latest posts because a lot of folks are just experimenting on the platform and it will end up being an overwhelming, incoherent feed, something that i'm trying to actively design against. My goal is to have people invite their friends and other people they know to write on the platform, and follow their nicheless blogs. When that is the case, the default feed will end up being populated with posts that will be more contextual. However, I will admit I am not sure how to reach this goal just yet. It's still early days and I'm still experimenting. Happy to hear any ideas :)
- mintysoap 4y ago
  Maybe a random post button? I sort of like the idea of experiencing the overwhelming incoherentness. I often find interesting stuff when clicking the “new” button on HN.

yawnxyz 4y ago

I found your project through Dense Discovery (https://www.densediscovery.com/ https://www.densediscovery.com/) and fell in love with it, and I thought more people should discover it!

louispereira 4y ago
Thank you so much for sharing it here. You made my day, and possibly my week/month. Grateful.
- ozdevi 4y ago
  I've subscribed but I got this error while activate my subscription "The requested URL was not found on this server."

dmitriid 4y ago

Looks nice but... Why dies it take up to two seconds to display author name on the explore page? :) Edit: and all other pages.

louispereira 4y ago
On it. I hope it's faster now.
- dmitriid 4y ago
  It is!
  - louispereira 4y ago
    Phew!

chrisfrantz 4y ago

Congrats on launching Louis!

louispereira 4y ago
Thanks, Chris! I didn't launch here though, I was just pleasantly surprised because a kind soul decided to share it :)

reacharavindh 4y ago

I really like the minimal design of Nicheless. I made my first post - https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well Two questions come to mind. 1. It appears that url for a post is simply based on title of the post and not connected to the user. Wouldn't this mean that no two posts can have the. same title? As in if smoother user tried to write a post titled "learn-one-thing-well", they can't? 2. One of the reasons I keep my personal website+blog is because I'm wary of services that offer a nice place to write and then write a blog post "It was a great journey..... but now we got $$ from VCs or company X , so Byeee.". Nicheless looks very nice almost wanting me to suppress that concern, but it still is a legitimate concern. Do you have any thoughts for users like me? Cheers on a nice project! You must be very proud of your work!

louispereira 4y ago
Hey! Thank you for giving Nicheless a try. I read your post a little while ago :) Regarding your questions: 1. The URL will auto generate and append a digit to the end in case the title of the post has already been taken before. 2. I don't think of Nicheless as a replacement for a personal website or blog (I have both, maintained separately). I want Nicheless to be a place for more experimental thoughts. A space for ideas, a minority of which graduate into more polished articles on your personal blog. Also, I want Nicheless to be a place that facilitates exchange of thoughts and ideas between existing social connections, both IRL and online, and not with the primary focus being the open network on the internet (like Twitter). I've written a bit about it here:https://nicheless.blog/post/mission https://nicheless.blog/post/mission I'm aware that the positioning of the platform is still a bit fuzzy, and a lot of my goals aren't exactly obvious to users, but I'm going to work to improve on that. Thank you for giving it a try, and for taking the time to leave your feedback here :)
- louispereira 4y ago
  Also, I forgot to mention. I don't have any plans of getting $$ from VCs as of now. Nicheless is a side project that I run because I believe it should exist. I hope that doesn't change in the future, unless I have no other option.