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Re:Ask HN: What app/website do you think should exist? (non-AI) by weedhopper on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:15PM (#46332520)
Here’s a simple one: a social media for people, one that doesn’t analyse, sell, or train on my data, and a one that people use as a social media—with their own name (remember when facebook required academic login?).

BeReal was close, it was unique, caught up with hype but it suffered from incompetent management (it was buggy as hell), and later sold out for data scraps.

I wish an already popular actual social media site existed.

Re:Ask HN: What app/website do you think should exist? (non-AI) by DinakarS on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:30PM (#46332612)
I like this idea. What would be the business model? That's the hard part. This is the part companies can't figure out and they either sell out to investors or turn to ads :(