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Show HN: Oyie – A micro social app to stay in sync with your friends
Oyie is a micro social app to stay in sync with your friends by sharing very short status updates or web links as push notifications.
- rco8786 3y agoJust setting up my oyie
- saif3itk 3y ago[flagged]
- aendruk 3y agoWhat is Oyie? → Page not found
- HALtheWise 3y agohttps://oyie.io/about.html https://oyie.io/about.html The .html is missing from the links. I agree that it's an embarrassing bug.
- aendruk 3y agoActually requesting /about works fine too. There’s just something scripted trying to reimplement a web browser in a web browser and of course failing.
- vasanthv 3y agoShould be fixed now. Just refresh it once so that the new script is loaded.
- evbogue 3y agoGreat minimalist design choices here. I felt myself longing for profile photos, but also I am willing for them to be left out.
- mock-possum 3y agoMan this seems like exactly the sort of thing I’d be into… if my family and friends would use it too. The biggest problem with social apps is getting buy-in from everybody else. Everyone needs to sign up for a new account, install a new app, pay attention to a new thing, think in a new paradigm. And since I’m the one who suggests it, I’m the one that plays support when they inevitably lose their password, or can’t figure out how to shorten links to share, can’t figure out how to host images or link to specific content or specific places in content… Which is why everybody still begrudgingly uses Facebook I suppose.
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoI am hoping to build a web only feed for my small groups. The login will use existing social media login using auth0. The domain won't be published and does not allow registration. Text and photos only. No notifications yet.
- stefanvdw1 3y agoLooks fun! And always nice to be able to grab the handle you want when you are one of the first to join
- aerzen 3y agoNice. Can this be self hosted?
- vasanthv 3y agoOyie is not open-source now. Contact me if you are interested. You can find my email in the site.
- lakomen 3y agoI never get the obsession with micro blogging. It's useless. An exercise. I don't get the praise in the comments. When I'm bored, that's the kind of simple and easy project I'd write. Or when testing a new framework or database etc. To each their own I guess. Not trying to be mean.
- quickthrower2 3y agoTwitter/X gets hate but it can be a useful way to interact sometimes. Sort of like a firewall to prevent the need of giving out your email address.
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- vpol 3y agoLooks cool, tried to register. Received email verification link, but when I click it - I get: > Invalid email verification code
- coffeedan 3y agoI get an error trying to enable notifications (on iPhone safari): undefined is not an object (evaluating 'swReg.pushManager.subscribe')
- andrewstuart 3y agoWhatsapp message groups seem to be the new family facebook.
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- habibur 3y agoThis market is currently dominated by IM group chats. In fact, most of the old social media has now moved over to chat groups.
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- MerelyMortal 3y agoNice and simple UI, thank you. How can we get people to switch from services like X/Twitter or other chat apps to something like this though?
- rapnie 3y agoOne way to that is by becoming part of the Fediverse where many people are already making that switch and network effects are coming into play more and more. Oyie on its own has a long way to go as a proprietary social media that stands on its own. There are tons of such products and mostly we never hear of them. If you manage to get a group of friends to use it, it is fine though.
- MerelyMortal 3y agoI feel like it needs to be a phone app for my friends to use it.
- luxpir 3y agoInteresting, thanks. Just heard of t2.social and looked at bluesky yesterday. Glad competition continuing.
- ReverieFish 3y agoIsn't this conceptually similar to twtxt?
- rhim 3y agoHow is this different to a group chat in any messenger?
- eu 3y agome gusta. what’s the tech behind this?
- henry_pulver 3y agoAll the positive comments seem fake