I experienced it as pretty close to click-bait overall.
- I'm not really sure what you're proposing? You really need pictures / mockups. Maybe even 15-second animations that show the flows that are in your imagination?
- IMO, the big problem with social networks is how they spread misinformation. I personally believe that the "credibility" problem is more important than trying to build a decentralized Facebook.
- Don't let your imagination run away!
BTW, as someone else mentioned, this really should be a "Show HN."
Sorry for missing the etiquette, I'll know better next time.
> - IMO, the big problem with social networks is how they spread misinformation. I personally believe that the "credibility" problem is more important than trying to build a decentralized Facebook.
Certainly food for thoughts I've already had but haven't centered on. I do think they're something around cryptographic identities and chains of trust that X509 was trying to achieve for telcos and E-mail that we can beat for the modern web.
Many thanks for the encouraging feedback.
Cryptography doesn't solve the problem of misinformation.
Or, technology doesn't solve political problems.
100%. This is a few days into the making, went from OneNote to a page on my website to its own domain just yesterday. Storyboards are very much next on my mind.
The grammar of the page suggests an asocial author with limited social skills, and perhaps a misunderstanding of what the objective of a landing page is for.
""" We only earn real customer money, at any cost. Free or $10/year, later adjusted with you to follow our expenses. """
It boggles my mind that you'd consider writing this, in this manner, to try and attract interest. It sounds clunky, complicated, awkward, mechanical; there's really not enough adjectives to capture this page's problems.
Then you have a picture of code (you've automatically disqualified yourself far before now, but an image of code instead of <code> blocks will always lose my interest, personally)
To summarize, this is horrendous, and you can do better.
The first three seconds of this webpage are losing 99% of your prospects. Not that your page even explains what your product is anyways, but for clarity's sake:
Famous image in the background, that's distracting, is this an art project?
"TAKING THEM SOON" What does that mean? It sounds vaguely threatening, or maybe the author is just illiterate.
Scrolling down beyond that results in a flashbang exploding before my face, so I'd leave.
0/10
Don't forget that, in an "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" way, it's easy to seem like a much larger asshole in internet comments than one seems to oneself. If you don't want to come across this way, you need to apply a corrective transformation to avoid underestimating your impact.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
If you do this, email hn@ycombinator.com and we might be able to help out a bit.
> At the end of the day, cryptography applied to rebuilding JWT+JWS for the people, distributed messaging over WebSocket and WebRTC, sharing abstracted Git refs, a few URL tricks & QR codes for link sharing. >Make it easy to integrate your platform and to your platform. Think and share components over entire apps, build around local state and synchronization. Use the standard web & GraphQL. >To think silo = identity -> code + state & build distributed systems as pools of state machines behind queues,
I'm at least passingly familiar with all those things (except JWS), but I still can't connect the dots. What do Git refs have to do with websockets?
What does "Think and share components over entire apps" even mean?
This reads a little bit like someone got high, had some major epiphanies, and is trying to communicate them with the world with a lot of hand-waving.
Hopefully there's some good ideas under there, they need much more refining and distilling before announcing them in this fashion though.
It is my intimate belief that they compose well to build powerful platforms. If they had a lot to do with each other I'd probably use one or the other.
> What does "Think and share components over entire apps" even mean?
I'd suggest finding legos and a friend and learning of ways to compose scenes together. Not trying to infantilize you and sorry if I sound condescending, but I think it's the experience closest to what I'm trying to achieve that many can relate to.
> This reads a little bit like someone got high, had some major epiphanies, and is trying to communicate them with the world with a lot of hand-waving.
Thanks? Hopefully my hands can slowly calm down.
> Hopefully there's some good ideas under there, they need much more refining and distilling before announcing them in this fashion though.
I don't think "sharing a link on HN" requires much anything, but thanks for sharing your opinion. It helps me to see the elements take place in some context to iterate on them, this is early work.
