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Yeah.. simple keyword matching might work.

But one for the rare case of ours taking off

We are building a social network with chronological feed.

I am thinking how to make it sustainable without raising VC funding but not doing aggressive ad targeting. Obviously people are not going to pay for a social network. So maybe just very generic sponsered links?

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

True though. We will be adding support for images in the next release.

We can add an option to export all data (in the pipeline) and let users delete account and data in one click (available on first release) but I don't know what else can be done.

End to end encryption is hard and I am not a programmer capable of implementing it safe enough to stop NSA level threats.

We will do what we can.

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

I messed up the formatting. Below is the correct text

> Blog

PostX is indeed something like a private blogging space. It's something I wanted for myself.

Honestly I am not fully sure how it's going to be used by people but I have bi uilt something me and my friends like and use.

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Thanks for the response

Many early adopters have asked for photo support so we will be definitely supporting it in the next release.

We are just trying to figure out how to do it without it turning into a clout-chasing machine.

cornfieldlabson I deleted my second brain

Sometimes I remember a particular line from a particular article and wish I had kept the links. But I have learnt that things should go away permanently and it's normal to never get to read it again. "Life is like that"

I had around 3.8k collected over the span of 4 years

cornfieldlabson Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC's Year of Truth

Not yet :)

cornfieldlabson Dubai Reality Check: An Indian VC's Year of Truth

Yep I'll never succeed in a world where I have to "dress the part".

Luckily this is an era where it doesn't matter much

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

I am trying to find out with the one I am building :)

I wonder how many people can give up effortless doomscrolling to see a limited length chronological feed made up of their friends' posts

cornfieldlabson Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

Thanks :)

Few others have suggested the same. But it kind of defeats the purpose since the goal is to see updates from your close friends and have only private profils. Even though empty feed is not good, it's a feature in our platform. We want to see what users do when the feed is empty. Only real way to have a non empty feed without compromising the core idea is letting users invite friends.

I am thinking along those lines!

cornfieldlabson I Deleted My Second Brain

I deleted all my bookmarks since I was hoarding unhealthy amount of them. A lot of them were in "to read" folder. It was so freeing to "let go"

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

These are very valid questions , thanks for asking them.

> Group chat Group chats work when everyone in one know each other. I have N different circles which don't overlap so group doesn't chat makes sense. Messages in group chat are more "in the face" - everyone has to. I just wanted a place where I can dump my thoughts without feeling like seeking immediate attention.

> Blog PostX is indeed something like a private blogging space. It's something I wanted for myself.

Honestly I am not fully sure how it's going to be used by people but I have built something me and my friends like and use.

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Thanks for the thoughts.

But we are not interested turning into Facebook. You will only see posts of your friends and nothing more.

I was spending 8+ hours a day doom scrolling which led to this idea. I just want to see what my friends want me to see and that's it.

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

We don't let anyone find you on the site without your short secret code which they need to ask you for. The code can be changed anytime. You (the user) need to actively ask your friends' code to build up the network. This also keeps the network small since you won't go out of your way to ask someone their code unless you really know them.

A really private place with only people that matter.

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Facebook marketplace has surprisingly large number of listings and in my country not even dedicated marketplaces can come close

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Couldn't have said it better.

Nothing is a social network anymore.

Everything is a content-consumer a platform now.

People just want to scroll and scroll

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

new users will face the empty feed problem since by design one can't find anyone without their code.

No "People you may know" or "select at least N interests or follow N accounts to continue".

I think early adopters will invite their friends to join and that is the only way.

Got any suggestions?

cornfieldlabson Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Thank you Anand - for the encouragement and joining the waitlist!

It means really a lot to us.

We are working on a better name and the site!

I'll send you the welcome email manually soon!

cornfieldlabson Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared

I am building one with a chronological feed and no public profiles.

You need to already know someone to find them here.

Check out the waitlist!

https://waitlist-tx.pages.dev/

Edit:

Here are some rough layout designs https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uLwnXDdUsC9hMZBa1ysR...

It's intentionally simple

cornfieldlabson Tell HN: I just made a first ever dollar on my SaaS

This seems to be the one:

https://beunderstoodapp.com/

cornfieldlabson Breaking My Security Assignments

(She's a girl btw)

cornfieldlabson Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

Below article has interesting info but it's paywalled. Does anyone have a way to read this?

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fame-feud-and-fortun...

Edit (as per wikipedia):

"Lucy Guo was fired two years later in 2018." She was a co-founder.

cornfieldlabson Meta buys Scale AI in a $14.3B deal

Below article has interesting info but it's paywalled. Does anyone have a way to read this?

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fame-feud-and-fortun...

cornfieldlabson Heroku Is Down

It's been down for sooo long, it's unbelievable

cornfieldlabson Heroku Is Down

Maybe US servers are down? Mine are hosted in EU

cornfieldlabson Heroku Is Down

I understand that but I think only that "front-end" is down

Our servers are up till now

cornfieldlabson Heroku Is Down

I was pushing a small update to my tiny niche social network with ~10 users so no real damage was done.

I feel bad for companies with a lot of users

cornfieldlabson Heroku Is Down

Heroku servers are working fine (the actual servers users host). So probably no.