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by holler 5y ago
Had never heard of them but absolutely love the UI of their site, wow.
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> So, I think that the key to building a great work-focused tool is to start on non-work use cases - such as social groups. I've been thinking about this as I build a slack-meets-twitter like chat platform for public discourse ( htt
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the key thought I had is not having it end up like twitch where there's a firehose of emoji/gifs and actual conversation is diluted...
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It sounds like you did quite well! I'd be curious to learn more about your experience, would you be open to a chat on sqwok.im? I'm somewhere in the middle with moderate unit tests and e2e for critical paths.
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yep! it's topical and instead of comments each post has a built-in chatroom... also it's meant to be easy to use for non-tech savvy people
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Sqwok – An Alternative to Discord and Twitter(sqwok.im)
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I too grew up on irc and now working on an alternative that has no gaming association, totally open so you can view w/o being logged in, topical, no gifs, and low friction, and planning to keep it clean and simple. https://s
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by holler 5y ago
giving employment to ~110,000 people and counting and inspiring people around the world
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by holler 5y ago
I'm working on an alternative to Twitter/Reddit/Discord called Sqwok ( https://sqwok.im ) The idea sprouted some years ago when I had used Slack for the first time and wondered why there wasn't a non-enterprise
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Thank you for the original article! Reading it last night gave me a jolt of motivation with the project I'm working on :) Have built it and now time to talk to people!
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On my latest project I went with Starlette (same author DRF/core dep for FastAPI) on it's own using marshmallow for serialization. Having written years worth of django/drf in the past, it's a breathe of fresh air with mi
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by holler 5y ago
I agree ember had issues in the past, but it's come a long way and the latest version Octane/4.0 is pretty solid. For anyone curious linkedin.com is a massive ember.js app and they're big contributors to the project.
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Someone close to me had a breakdown last night and it freaked me out... I could tell it's been building ever since the pandemic started and I sensed poor coping mechanisms were being used more frequently. I have compassion because I&#x
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by holler 5y ago
thanks! It's not open source but I plan on open sourcing parts of it at some point... have just been developing it solo so far
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I left a top level comment already but check out https://sqwok.im/p/R6-x8BdgecDjyg No voting and each post has a chatroom built into it, for topical live convo w/low friction, in active development!
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by holler 5y ago
I'm currently building something like you describe over at https://sqwok.im It takes inspiration from irc/aim/twitter and packages it in a way I wanted to use personally and didn't find available. Happy to di
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by holler 5y ago
I'm working on a startup and I've had a few different points where I started slipping a bit. What worked for me was taking some real time off and disconnecting from the internet/computer entirely. More than anything know that
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> Twitter doesn't care about its community or even recognizing the existence of the community that developed around trying to provide the support the company won't provide on its own. It's fascinating that such a community
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Read this last night and was really intrigued! Hadn't known much about a Magnetar before (what the scientists hypothesize) > A magnetar is an exotic type of neutron star, its defining feature that it has an ultra-powerful magnetic f
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It's largely due to the homepage loading a ranked list of items from ES on every request, but I'm probably not optimizing things properly either. I saw your comment about anvere and looks like you have a background in search/
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At that point some form of analytics will be necessary. I appreciate the ethos behind this nonetheless.
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The latest versions of Ember.js (Octane) have built-in decorator support and they're discussed in the RFC: https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/blob/master/text/0408-decora... https://gui
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> You shouldn't have total control over a shared message. I don't think we should be beholden to the mechanics of snail mail or email (almost 30 years old) when we're designing technologies in 2022 and beyond. It's im
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Why can't I delete a message for both sides in iMessage in 2022? This is why I feel like Telegram is a superior product. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251966734?answerId=2537...
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by holler 5y ago
For comparison I'm running a low traffic discussion site ( https://sqwok.im ) with core api through ApiGateway/Lambda w/lots of backend services and it's currently ~$400/month. The most expensive piece by
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> But I don't mind, this is still fun. Read your blog, hopefully you aren't telling yourself that right before you fire yourself! In seriousness thanks for the insightful reply. I agree w/tech choices, I'm always thin
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Very cool, how long did it take from idea to working v1? Anything you'd do differently in terms of getting it to PMF faster, tech choices, or lessons learned?
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Right there with you! Spent two years building a project, got some initial users, but need to shift to marketing and I feel an immense mental block... I actually took time off because I became so stressed thinking about the next step of shi
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I just saw this ship while visiting the USS Midway Museum and caught it on film: https://stream.new/v/sXc9wpNxX9NyhNMYeuYfV7y902WIPlYgFshIPri... Pretty cool to see, although I didn't capture the tiles in detail to
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by holler 5y ago
Have you considered moving to Starlette a la carte? I use marshmallow for schemas and a few other minimal deps and it's been a breeze.

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