I built a social media platform called Igloo - https://igloosocial.com
I wanted a platform where I could share like on Instagram, but with restricted people that I can change as I wish so not all my followers have to see all of my content.
Been a great learning experience, the first time I built a proper app and a backend of this size all by myself. Don't care if anyone else uses this, I had fun along the way.
Hey HN! I built Igloo - A private social media platform to share better with my friends and family. I wanted a social media platform that would give me complete control over whom I want to share with, down to a control over who sees a single post. I also needed it to be something anyone with 0 technical skills can download and start using, something that Mastodon and others could not provide.
FAQ :
Is it open source? Not yet, I want to try making a business out of this, and if that fails I'll open source it
How do I support it? It's free to start, subscription to upgrade for more features
How do I trust it? Honestly, there's no reason you should. That said, the terms and conditions are clear that I don't track, there are no ads, and I don't have any plans of adding any cause I do believe in the subscription model.
Is there a web version? Still working on it, mobile only for now
How does that affect the quality of the article in any way? It's not like they're expressing through emoji, they're just there as bullet points
I get that emoji get a lot of hate on reddit since emoji only comments were low effort and that's justified
No emoji at all in any form, that's just a stupid ask
Practically, you can get browser extensions that remove the emojis. The fact that brightly colored symbol blocks interrupt flow will not change as the culture changes because saturation = attention, contrast = attention and uniqueness = attention are all fundamental principles of perception.
In the same way if there were using a purple script font. It's just unnecessary decoration and I'll gladly pass even though the content is good (usually it's not).
Congrats on your launch team swipe! I think we already have a great payment infrastructure in the BHIM UPI and bill management like this is definitely the next step. Am I correct to understand that you provide a QR code for payment through any UPI app of my choice, similar to what Bharat Pay does, and the bill is sent to the number linked to that?
Thank you. Yes, we are using the UPI apps like BHIM, Google Pay, Phone Pay, PayTM etc.. And also if the merchant wants to collect payments other modes like Debit/Credit cards we are also giving them a payment gateway option as well which allows their customers to pay through any of the payment methods.
Acronos is a team discussions platform that facilitates meetings completely asynchronously. Just start a discussion, say what you have to say through text, audio, video and more, and then open discussion to your team or specific people as an open discussion, or by asking specific questions and requesting answers to those. You can even automate daily standup meetings and more!
This came out of a need for my team to work remotely and we when meeting planning and scheduling became tough, we built this. It's been a great change letting people respond on their time and keeping track of every discussion efficiently.
We're close to launch of Acronos to public and we're opening it up to a few beta companies for now. If you'd like early access, check out our site and click on Get Now to fill the early access form. Happy to take any questions.
We agree with those points and sell a tool https://www.uclusion.com that replaces traditional meetings.
Many of your real time meetings and discussions were not the best use of time even in the office but now remote is highlighting the problem as you explain.
Most tools - email, calendar, version control - are asynchronous. For concentrated work, they function best because people can respond at their own pace. However for all remote work, there is a benifit in syncing up with an online meeting. There I found audio only and a shared screen is the most productive and comfortable.
I found no magic tool or any reason to make it any fancier.
