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Show HN: Flume – A beautiful Instagram experience for your Mac and browser

3 pointsby rafifyaldaalmost 10 years ago

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rafifyaldaalmost 10 years ago
Hey all, I&#x27;ve been working in my evenings on a Mac app for Instagram with @mirgehtsganzgut that goes away with the social-side and distractions that Instagram throws at you and releases you from the pretty basic web-version that Instagram offers. Edge-to-edge beautiful photos sliding by your screen throughout the day was one of the key ideas of making Flume - it wasn&#x27;t important to me who posted a photo or how many likes and comments it had - for me it was about the photo. That&#x27;s what inspired the feed view. Of course, Instagram is a social network, so those details are still available for you there if you want them, but the idea was to highlight photography, not followers.<p>While working on Flume for Mac, I discovered an opportunity to give a smaller but still beautiful Instagram experience to people who don&#x27;t have a Mac and for those that didn&#x27;t want to browse via an app. I open hundreds of tabs a day and I don&#x27;t want to go to my phone to check my Instagram feed, and that&#x27;s where Flume New Tab was born. Available now for Safari and Chrome, you can bring some beauty to your blank tabs!<p>Flume for Mac is currently in beta and I&#x27;m taking some limited testers on board - Instagrammers are obviously preferred. Get in touch on the website to let me know.<p>If you&#x27;re curious about the name - since it&#x27;s shared with a famous musician - flume is an old English word that means a river or stream. When new items photo pop into the Mac app, it feels like a drop of water in a stream.<p>Thanks and happy browsing!