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by holler 3y ago
What about HN?
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by holler 3y ago
Yeah, that was the essence of how it became popular to begin with. It was the first time I'd ever seen an irc experience for the masses, thanks to browser tech improving. I've always thought their video conferencing was better tha
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by holler 3y ago
> the actual product itself is nothing special. I wouldn't agree. Aside from Slack, Discord built the next highest quality browser-based chat and voice app, targeting consumers vs enterprise. It's well engineered, reliable, and
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by holler 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's a replacement, rather it's a new experience focused on what I believe is a shortcoming with current social media sites in that they aren't optimized for live discussion. For instance you mention &quot
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by holler 3y ago
You're welcome on Sqwok ( https://sqwok.im ), it's chat based, in active dev
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by holler 3y ago
Ok that makes sense! I'll check it out. I pretty much just use Starlette + Mangum + Marshmallow for basic api functionality.
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by holler 3y ago
How does it compare to Starlette? (lib FastAPI uses under the hood) I've used vanilla Starlette for recent projects and it's been great.
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by holler 3y ago
Yeah definitely, in recent one the stakeholder very adverse to future risk.
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by holler 3y ago
Haha totally, they could use the help! What's the system of "three sided cards"?
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by holler 3y ago
Not sure if they've upgraded but you used to not be able to permalink to a search result.
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by holler 3y ago
I've worked on projects where we had to rebrand entirely due to a USPTO search coming up with much less similarities with an existing name.
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by holler 3y ago
Also @zuck roasting Twitter: > Anyone think this can become bigger than twitter!? > It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do
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by holler 3y ago
> Consider, for example *this* text* Oh yes. I made the fun decision to write a markdown parser/contenteditable component for https://sqwok.im and ended up spending probably a month on it, largely writing endless unit t
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by holler 3y ago
Really cool, had never heard of this before. I just watched the documentary on James Cameron and his Deepsea Challenger and was similarly impressed by the extraordinary lengths the team went to in engineering it. My takeaway was that OceanG
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by holler 3y ago
yes they use websockets
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by holler 3y ago
I was originally inspired by Reddit & Slack to build https://sqwok.im , where every post has a built-in chat room instead of threaded comments. The real driver was in talking about current events such as this one, where refre
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by holler 3y ago
I used it because early on in the project I wanted to use features for IoT that were only available on us-east-1 initially, as well as lambda@edge which was on us-east-1 only at the time.
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by holler 3y ago
hey sorry about that, I just checked and apparently for unknown reasons codepipeline just pushed a commit to prod that wasn't supposed to go out! site broken atm sigh , please check back in ~hour or so and apologies! working on a big
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by holler 3y ago
Thank you! Appreciate it.
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by holler 3y ago
https://sqwok.im - All posts fully public and google indexed. - Built-in realtime chat rooms instead of threaded comments on all posts, complete with presence, @mentions, markdown support (check faq)(mobile & desktop web sup
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by holler 3y ago
There already is a wikipedia social network created by Jimmy Wales himself. https://wt.social
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by holler 3y ago
There have been and will continue to be numerous alternatives created all the time. The problem is creating a clone of X is rarely ever going to succeed, simply because cloning products doesn't create a compelling reason to leave the o
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by holler 3y ago
I admit that I thought the same thing about Apple Watch and it seems to be doing quite well these days.
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by holler 3y ago
Agree tech isn't the problem per say, but "fell for" implies there wasn't a value proposition. The reason each successive platform became successful was because it did something better than it's predecessors and at
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by holler 3y ago
There are dozens of Reddit clones, many have come and gone. In my eyes they don't work because they aren't novel or innovative. There's no reason to switch for the average user.
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by holler 3y ago
Just Trimaxion Drone ships, nothing to be alarmed about! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G13KzEJqBw
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by holler 3y ago
Maybe that model no longer works? I don't recall an option to pay for an online account and not have ads, or pay for a print version without ads. Why not? My points is they were lazy (my experience) or simply just not innovative enough
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by holler 3y ago
It's hard to say of course, we don't have all the information, but I can tell you it was very resource intensive, and at the same time the core product (newspaper/website) was bloated and burdened with ads. Honestly to me it
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by holler 3y ago
I'm against gov overreach and have serious doubts the government could even properly audit a paper to see whether those funds were used directly for journalism.
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by holler 3y ago
> At least try to tell us. Give examples. Sure, here's one. At the time (~12 years ago), Groupon was a booming business. This newspaper (and many others) decided to try and get in on the action by creating their own local versions o

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