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by asim 3y ago
Sorry what I meant is I've been working on the open source Micro project for 8 years which underpins this. The chat app itself was not really something I meant as being open source but yes it's in a separate repo with the API host
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by asim 3y ago
Yes this is a proof of concept. I'm just trying to figure out what the core features should be and whether other people will be interested too. It can potentially be self hosted but it's quite a complex stack at the moment. There&
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by asim 3y ago
Will take that on board. Does it matter where the code is? Doesn't seem like people care about Notions source code.
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Show HN: Micro Chat – Private group chat(micro.mu)
64 points by asim 3y ago|43 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Struggled a lot. I grew up amongst an extended family of relatives. It was my community. Then I moved away. I also grew up on the internet and spent a lot of time moving between communities there. I am trying to rebuild some of they now ht
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Ask HN: Has anyone opened a physical store?
9 points by asim 3y ago|12 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Sendgrid has an inbound email webhook which I've used quite effectively. What's great is that you can dynamically map your inboxes and provide any address for your domain. https://docs.sendgrid.com/for-developers&#
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by asim 3y ago
This. So you're highlighting what I feel and see. The need to manage small groups in a singular way. Maybe that's not even worth it but it's all spread across different platforms. I don't really know if a bridge for them
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by asim 3y ago
I wouldn't say that's the goal. Most of these platforms are VC owned with the goal of growth. Meaning a lot of public usage. Not my goal.
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. Having seen that. I started writing a manifesto with similar sentiment but realised it's really hard to attract the attention needed to get it off the ground. If it's of interest https://mu.xyz/
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by asim 3y ago
I think discord works well but at the same time isn't for my generation. I was reluctant to adopt slack and used it for work/oss community building but found it just wasn't a fit for me. I'm still someone who enjoys emai
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by asim 3y ago
That's sort of a random comment. Email came from a need and turned into global digital identify. Web forums became a place for internet conversations. Any iterations we made were for public real time communication and that served us we
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by asim 3y ago
Group sizes would be limited to 20 people. Multiple topics/threads per group. No notifications. must know a users emails to invite them.
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Ask HN: Is there any interest in building a private community platform?
2 points by asim 3y ago|10 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Tbh it's about as useful as the trending page is. Which is not very useful. These things could be so much better but GitHub is just copycatting at this point. It used to be a leader in great UX.
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by asim 3y ago
I don't have Facebook. That went like 10 years ago. I still have twitter but deleted an account with 3k followers and returned to follow just the things I care about quietly. Still that scrolling behaviour gets me. My consumption is dr
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by asim 3y ago
I hate social media with a passion. In 2000 using msn, yahoo messenger and chat rooms was a joy. Browsing the web was such fun, exploring and finding new information and websites. In 2005 MySpace became all the rage and something shifted.
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by asim 3y ago
That makes sense. It's quite easily doable but you need sort of a programmatic mailbox. I don't think it necessarily needs to be direct to email but email as identity. Most people still use a well known hosting provider for email.
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by asim 3y ago
Is it even email? It's just messages right. You want messages to be sent directly to you.
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Ask HN: Why do all of our private communications flow through corporate servers?
8 points by asim 3y ago|12 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Charge for it. Simply charge each user $1 and cover your costs. Sounds like it's a fun tool but if you want to sustain it then get people to pay.
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by asim 3y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing! I'm sort of interested in what the tech could enable if it's invisibly deployed and used within an app.
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by asim 3y ago
TIL the complexity of VPN is still higher than my desire to self host. I've run OpenVPN in very complex configurations across multiple datacenters for companies, I've worked on distributed systems and networking tech for decades b
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by asim 3y ago
Morale of the story, build a proxy and call it a vpn?
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Ask HN: Do you use a VPN? Does your family?
10 points by asim 3y ago|13 comments
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by asim 3y ago
It's not clear that regular people care about where software is hosted. If anything it's just far more convenient that you don't have to deal with anything. Did anyone care how secure zoom was? Not really. Just pure convenien
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by asim 3y ago
This is the thing. WhatsApp works really well. And so did Facebook groups. I think once communities are established they stay where they are. So anything new is for new usecases. Trying to get people to migrate isn't the answer. It&#x2
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Ask HN: Is anyone hosting their own Jitsi server?
225 points by asim 3y ago|101 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks for sharing that sentiment. I don't quite take the same view on it but understand the approach can be effective. I stopped using slack at some point and it meant I did not speak to the specific group of friends who only communic
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by asim 3y ago
The irony. HN is probably one of the few places left I feel like actually every so often leaving a comment. Why is that? The value of the network perhaps. Or that it does in some ways feel like a closed network. It's so niche, the self

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