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Hawker.social a Reddit/Twitter alternative that I launched earlier this year

Hey HN, I wanted to throw my hat into the ring for an alternative to Reddit. Earlier this year, I bootstrapped and soft launched a reddit-like platform that incorporates some of the features I liked from twitter.

How Hawker.social works: 1. Your individual account also has it’s own feed (twitter basically) 2. You can create a community like reddit 3. You can create a private room within your community and charge a recurring or one time membership fee.

The site is www.hawker.social if you want to check it out. Welcoming all feedback and suggestions.

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Happy to check it out, but I'll say at first glance you need your landing page to include actual content. The barrier to entry is immediately too high if I can't go straight to the home page and start browsing posts. You'll lose out on a huge amount of traffic who get disinterested and close the tab, and the network effect is all about retaining all the traffic you can.

Valid feedback. Thank you

Just checked your website. I feel it's a great starting point for a freelancer like me who don't want to invest much in a community building tool early on by paying a hugh upfront fee not knowing if my followers will ever become paid members. I used to have my followers on a slack channel but I was hesitant to charge members a fee to get my most useful advices and strategies simply because I had to collect payments via PayPal and add them manually to these exclusive channels separately all by myself. So I always parked that idea. Now that I have discovered a platform like this. I will confidently give it a try. Thanks for letting us know. Best of luck :)

hawker.social looks stunning i like how it combines features from other social media platforms and even other features that are not built into other social media platforms

Reserved some nice community permalinks. Thanks!

Looks promising. Will check it out.

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