Midnight is a side-project I've been working on for the past year, but only released in alpha a month ago. It aims to be the web equivalent of your local pub: a place you can go to and talk about your day with strangers or friends. It's heavily inspired by write.as (for simplicy) and Roam (for bi-directional linking). My hope is that it fosters creative writing as well as typical pub discussions.<p>You can read more about it and the concept on https://midnight.pub<p>Here are some example of interesting stories written:
https://midnight.pub/e/269435632215917061
https://midnight.pub/e/270853987488498184
https://midnight.pub/e/271216985664127501<p>Thanks for reading!
Congrats, this is a an awesome idea and well implemented. Especially the name and domain is kind of welcoming and setting the right tone.<p>I just checked out write.as' and ResearchRoam's traffic and they have both over 1-2M visits per month which isn't too bad and surprised me a bit. Do you have insights into this market? Why does a simple editor (write.as) gets so much traffic and is still growing? Is linking (Roam) not an overrated feature and easy to accomplish with any other note taking tool? What kind of people are using these tools? Isn't there not heavy competition on the native app side?
As someone who doesn't frequent pubs - is going to pubs and talking about your day to strangers actually a feature of pubs? How does that actually work? What's the etiquette?
The listed links (which are not automatically made clickable in text posts):<p><a href="https://midnight.pub" rel="nofollow">https://midnight.pub</a><p><a href="https://midnight.pub/e/269435632215917061" rel="nofollow">https://midnight.pub/e/269435632215917061</a><p><a href="https://midnight.pub/e/270853987488498184" rel="nofollow">https://midnight.pub/e/270853987488498184</a><p><a href="https://midnight.pub/e/271216985664127501" rel="nofollow">https://midnight.pub/e/271216985664127501</a>
The simplicity is really appealing! Your video was good too, very clear.<p>It's tempting to try it, but I prefer to host all my writing and works myself.
MUSHes and MOOs are virtual pubs that aren't as fashionable any more as they once were. (Most MUSH-oriented apps are glorified telnet clients, and tend to reproduce the same aesthetics and design flaws/idiosyncrasies.) Real life pubs are real-time, and MUSHes offer a good balance of real-time, networked interaction and persistent objects. This project doesn't handle the real-time aspect and is less like a pub than a blog with a wiki-like editing experience.<p>I'm convinced that with all the chat apps that are popping up, the Slack killer will be the first one to reinvent the MUSH by bolting its most notable features onto the "chat" space.<p>(When Keybase was still a thing, I thought they might do it by introducing "bot workers"—chat bots implemented in a script bundle that's managed and executed in the client itself—like a browser add-on, but based on Service Workers a la Cloudflare Workers.)