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   by holler 4y ago

   Hey thanks for the feedback, I agree with you and I've thought about that problem and ways to potentially solve it. I was thinking it'd be nice to have a way to render a route, or maybe it's just in a modal as you say, and ke
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   by holler 4y ago

   Hey Jim! Thought about checking in with you recently :)
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   by holler 4y ago

   Yes, it should be indexed although I haven't actually confirmed it works yet! I guess I probably should.
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   by holler 4y ago

   Fair enough! The slogan is def not concrete, just something I pulled out a hat one late night so to speak... It's fundamentally a place for open live discussion and may not be appealing as much for casual reading (yet). The core focus
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   by holler 4y ago

   There are many features I want to build that I think will be compelling for people both on the main site and on their own sites.
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   by holler 4y ago

   > and just want to get to the end now. There should be a button that appears when you've scrolled up that says "return to bottom", but agree need the reverse to jump to the top! Maybe just a simple "Home" link in
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   by holler 4y ago

   sorry about that! It's in my list of stories pretty high up so hopefully it'll be there soon. Thanks for checking it out!
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   by holler 4y ago

   Interesting! It's using aws pinpoint for transactional email, have you ever encountered that before from other sites?
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   by holler 4y ago

   Thank you, I appreciate it! The site isn't open source, although I've thought maybe parts of it could be later. The reason for the blank space is I originally was coming from an angle of news consumption where you could see the me
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    by holler 4y ago

    That's why I didn't include any voting at all in the site. That said I think it'd be nice to have a way to somehow highlight message(s) within a post, so anyone can get a sort of run-down on key moments of the conversation. I
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    by holler 4y ago

    I agree there should be a way to highlight top messages, and we've discussed it on the site a few times. Just haven't come up with the implementation yet! My main goal was getting the core chat piece working solid before building
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    by holler 4y ago

    lol! I'd love to once I figure out how to.
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    by holler 4y ago

    To be honest I'm not sure off the top of my head, lambda/dynamo/s3/iot scale quite a bit. Opensearch is one of the most costly services but I have it behind apigateway cache.
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    by holler 4y ago

    interesting! hadn't heard of CRDT. I like the concept for sure.
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    by holler 4y ago

    I think USP for sqwok is a low-friction, intuitive way to hop into an instant live conversation with strangers. I wanted to design it for general open discussion on the web from day one. The language of the site is designed for a general au
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    by holler 4y ago

    Hey thank you for the honest feedback and taking the time to check it out! > Since it brought me to the end of the chat I had to scroll to the top to catch up (which has some loading lag) so it felt like I had to do too much work to get
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    by holler 4y ago

    For me it's more a matter of "use what you know". The initial idea for this sprouted in 2015 and it took awhile to even figure out how to build it.
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    by holler 4y ago

    It's $150/month right now for 3 aws accounts (parent/staging/prod).
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    by holler 4y ago

    Thank you! I wanted to get the .com but someone has held onto it :/
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    by holler 4y ago

    great idea, you wouldnt want that shared between device?
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    by holler 4y ago

    ah yeah, I've thought that too about the dots. It has been awhile since I played SimCity 2000! (great game)
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    by holler 4y ago

    Up to this point it's been fully bootstrapped but I am hoping to find a way to work on this full time through an incubator as soon as I can. My goal was to push it as far as I could on my own to sort of prove the idea out. I've ne
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    by holler 4y ago

    Thank you! Really appreciate it
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    by holler 4y ago

    Hey thank you! Yes totally, what would you like to know? The backend is python/starlette/marshmallow running serverless on lambda behind apigateway. It uses many other lambda/sqs functions, dynamodb, iot for websockets. The f
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    by holler 4y ago

    Hey thanks for the feedback and good point... I think that's an artifact from when I first started on the project some time ago! Dating myself as a millenial... Any suggestion for replacement?
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    by holler 4y ago

    I'm building https://sqwok.im Just posted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31160302
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    Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit(sqwok.im)

    218 points by holler 4y ago|126 comments
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    Sqwok – An alternative to Twitter and Reddit with live chat, profiles, & more(sqwok.im)

    2 points by holler 4y ago|0 comments
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    by holler 4y ago

    How cool! I happened to take a JSX flight from Seattles Boeing Field to Oakland maybe two years ago and it was a really enjoyable experience. The terminal at Boeing Field is a sort of old historic building and it was set up such that you es
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    by holler 5y ago

    Compelling product > advertised speech philosophy. Are there any serious social networks who overtly advertise as anti-free speech? Making speech the hook when the site looks like a third-rate ripoff of Twitter isn't a winning strat