Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by samarama on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:21AM (#31059406)

The issue is you have built in a mechanism to prevent the site from gaining critical mass.

In order for a user to check the site, there would need to be 50 posts from their friends that they can read through.

For that to happen, they would need 500 friends for them to make 50 posts a week.

In order to reach 500 friends, you would need 100 million users, before that the network would be empty with nothing happening.

It’s better to limit the number of posts to 1 per day.

This way, you would be able to have some stuff going with 50 friends in some areas and 3 million users.

However, you need to get to 3 million users somehow with no value in your network, maybe you can get this through posts like this, but very difficult.

You also need to let users upload their contact list otherwise you won’t be able to build your social graph.

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by aleken on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:58AM (#31059536)

Isn’t one of the points about “slow” social that you don’t need to read 50 posts a day? I would be happy checking in once a week, the same day I am going to post my update.

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by samarama on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:51AM (#31081916)

Yes but it will be an empty desert with anything below 10m users, because only then would an average user would have 100 friends and 10 posts per week.

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by smaudet on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:53AM (#31059518)

This seems a bit arbitrary?

I would be happy with one, or two posts a day...I only need 5 friends to post a week, at 10 I always have something to read, at 50 friends I am positively awash...

Introverts are a big crowd - a fact the socialites like Zuckerberg tend to forget. This will easily grow...

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by spoils19 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:35AM (#31059645)

Agreed. I'll be looking forward to quoting your post when this social network grows and takes off over the next few years.

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by jmcgough on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:17AM (#31059820)

I feel like you could make a similar argument against Wordle:

You can only play one game a day! How are you going to get revenue if someone can only spend a few minutes a day on it?

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by bigthymer on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:57AM (#31059976)

People can play Wordle alone and get value. Not true for a social network

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Re:Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends,... by bartread on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:47AM (#31059493)

> You also need to let users upload their contact list otherwise you won’t be able to build your social graph.

In the context of legislation like GDPR and CCPA is this even legal in some jurisdictions any more? Genuinely not sure so any insight gratefully received.

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