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Re:Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good? on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:26AM (#50128795)
Monetization model? People would pay for activity of the agent over the network (how much content it checks for them), not ads.

This is an attempt to kind of reduce screen time and power the genuine personal relations. If people can describe who they want to talk to or what news to get, that would make their presence online more thoughtful.

Re:Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good? on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:20AM (#50128756)
The first, smoother social discovery. A user expresses the need to find someone (teammate, friend, reviewer, collaborator, etc.) to their agent. It then talks to other people agents to find out whether there is a matching need. If yes, agents introduce the humans to each other.

Another thing is easier content coverage - a user can describe what types of news from other people one does want to see, and the agent would send only those.

To clarify: it is not Moltbook. In my concept humans and agents both use such a media but content is posted by humans or at least on their approval. Agents mostly talk to other agents.

Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good?

Hello! I can't get my mind off the idea of building an AI-native social network. Every user has its own agent (only one), which can talk to other agents or check content on the user's behalf. That way, the agent can "process" far more information about people than the human, and help in building relations.Why it is a bad/good idea? Worth trying?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:16AM (#44708114)
https://www.knei.space - human relations interface
Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @02:01AM (#43841721)
GPT beginning the response to the majority of my questions with a "Great question", "Excellent question" is a bit disturbing indeed.

Show HN: One line to make multiple notes on your talks with people (Knei)

https://app.knei.space/

Hello! I implemented a feature which makes note-taking on interpersonal talks a lot quicker. You can type in the story of who you've met during the day/week, and the app will parse it into separate talk notes for related people.I think this is a step towards making relationship management more convenient and natural.The feature is a part of the Knei app, a tool to build relationships...

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Re:Self-Disclosure as an Interpersonal Process on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:32AM (#43254318)
Hi! Made an article for the interpersonal relations blog. This is on the self-disclosure concept: a process of sharing thoughts, feelings, and beliefs with people.

The article might have turned out a bit text-heavy. The blog format is being tailored (always), so your feedback would be very valuable.

Show HN: Spatial Contact Management Layout

https://i.postimg.cc/Y9qT3LPV/Connectionslayout-30july2024-looped.gif

Hi! I would like to share the connection layout I implemented in Knei. It is used to manage interpersonal relations.This layout spatially communicates information about many relationships. It is formed of columns representing contacts' groups. The column contains people's cards. Every card moves within the column from left to right as time goes by. Hence, people you haven’t talked to for a...

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Might be. Although things like regular talk reminders (not only because of birthday but because you haven't talked for some time) seem uncovered.

My wondering is that these companies already have a messaging platform and attempt to cover an absolute majority of connections. So, it must be super easy to implement something like structured talk history.

Actually, I'm building the one, but this is another topic, I suppose.

Thanks for the hack. "Tasks to touch" sound interesting.

Ask HN: Why don't major social media introduce relationship management features?

Building connections with other people is what social media and messengers are created for, right? In that scope, the features of relationship management ("personal CRM-like" ones) seem viable to be implemented there. Why do services such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook seemingly not go in that direction, in your opinion?

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Would be good. It somehow should take into account relations the person has with other people. LinkedIn tries to do something similar but they have no idea of my relations, hence sending notifications like "Wish HB to the <person I've never talked before>"
Indeed. In addition to the sufficient functionality built-in apps are very "close" UI-wise: a person can use them right away after the talk. To match that, one has to implement calling app, or messenger, or something as accessible to make notes at.

Also, resorting to default note-taking functionality is probably a matter of a value understanding: people don't see how managing these relationships with a specific solution can benefit them.

Ask HN: Do you consider a Personal CRM to be a tarpit idea?

Hi! I participated in the r/yc discussion on tarpit ideas.Could a personal CRM be considered a tarpit idea? From the first look, the problem of relationship building sounds common and relatable, that's an attractive component. But a very small share of people are actually willing to regularly keep notes about their connections. That makes the real audience much smaller.I am curious to know...

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Automated scraping of Instagram stories, can you recommend any solutions?

Hi! I would like to implement a social listening of Instagram stories for the personal CRM product. With it, users will be able to set up filters and notice the most important posts from their network (e.g. somebody needs help, calls for a meeting, etc.) I'm looking for the ways to set up the listening of a person followings' Ig stories. Do you know any feasible solutions?Few clarifications: -...

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Products with universal positive externality (impact)

Hello! Would like to know your opinion on a model.Every product or service has an impact externality depending on what it can be applied for. A person using the product can decrease or increase well-being of parts of the society. It may happen unintentionally (by design) or on purpose, if the person is aware of the impact they make.Depending on what effect dominates overall, we can roughly...

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Re:Keeling Curve on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:13AM (#39027174)
Thank you, according to it, absolute concentration grows ~0.6% a year, from 320 to 420. At what value the impact on living organisms or other processes becomes substantial?
Re:A periodic table of visualization methods on Monday January 15, 2024 @09:15AM (#39001215)
Good intention but kind of hard to read.

1) It's not clear for me how color segmentation groups were picked in the first place. Are they mutually exclusive?

2) Would be great to make this interactive. There is a substantial cognitive effort to imagine these methods from the name of few words (good exercise but come on).

Re:Show HN: Text-to-speech reader for Telegram messenger on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:38AM (#28705600)
Hi! Built a simple Android app which reads aloud texts from chats/channels of Telegram messenger. It is particularly useful on the road or doing physical work. In sum, when you cannot scroll the feed manually.

Please, have a try of Android app and share what you think.

Also would love to hear your opinion on the concept of audio feed in general. I'm looking forward to implement complete audio feed with different channels and recommendations. Why is there no/not much such products among popular?

Re:Audio Navigation Prospects on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:10PM (#27764101)
Hello! My name is Semyon, I'm an entrepreneur and maker. Want to tell about the product and have your opinion on the general topic: audio navigation impact.

*About the product*

Recently I've released a Red Hood app - attentive audio navigator for people. It would be useful for ones who live in big cities and spend a lot of time every day to commute from one point to another. Red Hood provides a user with thorough audio commands along the route.

Features to focus on: 1) Designed for travelling by foot and public transport. You can build path and move along without taking the phone out. 2) Custom geomessages with intro or interesting fact can be placed in any location. Other users will hear having the journey more immersive. 3) You can fetch the places of interest nearby and hear more about them doing a free walk. No special touristic routes, just free exploration.

We believe that citizens should have a specially tuned companion to make the longest routes with the finest experience. That's why there is a focus on the Red Hood being the convenient and useful audio navigator for any person.

*/About the product*

How do you evaluate the prospects of a mobile audio navigation? Which groups of people it would bring the biggest value to? I've came up with the few (couriers, travellers, commuters) and interested to discuss more specific categorization.

Re:Shum or will the short audios replace text posts? on Friday May 08, 2020 @07:18PM (#23120592)
Thank you, think about possible introduction of speech -> text transcription under each voice. It might not be perfect but useful for rapid communication. On the contrary, majority of audio content could be conceived as a background. Text or video require more attention.
Re:Shum or will the short audios replace text posts? on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:24AM (#23113192)
Hello, I'm co-founder of Shum, app to record and post 1-minute audio notes (Twitter for audio) We have MVP available, but there are few users yet.

So, I want to talk about perspectives of audio sharing in future. Will it be the most proliferated format to express thoughts and share news in your opinion? Or will such format be short videos(Tik-tok) / smth more advanced (like 3D models, short animations, whatever)?

I think audio notes will definitely step up. Reasons: 1) People in big cities spend a lot of time to commute to work from home and back. And cities grow faster than travel speed. The most convenient ways to interact with information on the road - audio, as far as hands in public transport, bike, car are usually occupied. I performed a review among technopark residents, which showed that 8/10 people consume audio content on the road. 2) Voice processing methods are close to advance. People tend to use audio messaging more(from reviews) along with voice assistants. 3) Music streaming services, of course. There is already popular and working business model of consuming audio content on freemium base.

What do you think, what are the obstacles in the way for services which allow to share short audios?