I am developing this social media platform as a solo founder

Re:I am developing this social media platform as a solo founder by verdverm on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @10:44PM (#43553243)

With ATProto, you don't have to implement most of the federation. For your project specifically, it would be called an "AppView" in atproto lingo. You would...

1. store public data in the user's PDS (an api call instead of a db call)

2. listen to the firehose for records created by other frontends to your AppView (optional, especially early on)

Otherwise, it would be quite similar to any other social media site with mobile apps, a backend, and a database

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Re:I am developing this social media platform as a solo founder by shannontkwong on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @05:23PM (#43561795)

Decentralization is definitely on my long-term roadmap for Airdel, and AT Protocol has some interesting benefits worth exploring. However, my immediate focus is on market validation and getting a viable product into users' hands quickly. As a solo founder, I need to be strategic with my resources.

Right now I'm prioritizing core functionality and user experience to test if we're solving the right problems. Once I've validated the concept and built a development team, implementing decentralized features would make more sense as we scale.

I appreciate the suggestion though - it's on my radar for future iterations when we have the bandwidth to implement it properly!

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