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Show HN: A non-VC backed content creation and social media platform

33 点作者 fredwu将近 2 年前
Hey HN, I&#x27;m soft launching my MVP today and would love to hear your honest feedback. For the past few months I&#x27;ve been working extremely hard on this side hustle in my spare time (I have a day job as a CTO).<p>I&#x27;m building a platform for writers, bloggers and content creators that&#x27;s built for them rather than for investors and advertisers like most similar products and social media platforms backed by VCs.<p>I wrote about why I built it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;persumi.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;persumi&#x2F;u&#x2F;fredwu&#x2F;p&#x2F;welcome-to-persumi-a-modern-platform-for-content-creation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;persumi.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;persumi&#x2F;u&#x2F;fredwu&#x2F;p&#x2F;welcome-to-persumi-...</a><p>And the landing page is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;persumi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;persumi.com&#x2F;</a><p>I would really love your honest feedback, if you care to share them with me. :)<p>In the next week or two I&#x27;ll write about how I built this MVP in three months - the tech, the architecture, the experiments and the missteps... If you are curious, stay tuned!

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ehutch79将近 2 年前
There doesn’t seem to be any easily findable screenshots or demos.<p>That’s a big red flag for me. I know this isn’t one, but that’s a typical strategy for ERP&#x2F;CRM systems that look and feel like something out of 2002.
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fredwu将近 2 年前
Hi OP here. Thank you so much for everyone who&#x27;s taking the time to give feedback. You have all given me lots of things to think about, and to improve on, I can&#x27;t thank you all enough!<p>It&#x27;s getting late here in Australia so I&#x27;m going to have to call it a night. I&#x27;ll respond to the comments I haven&#x27;t responded to over the weekend.<p>And I will for sure add some screenshots to the landing page, as many of you have suggested.<p>EDIT: Updated the landing page with some screenshots. Will try to perfect it more over the weekend...
jantissler将近 2 年前
I love the basic ideas behind it. I&#x27;m over &quot;free&quot; sites and services. I can&#x27;t afford to pay for everything all the time, but I&#x27;m happy to do that for important ones. And online publishing is important to me.<p>I also like the idea behind the &quot;personas&quot; concept: I have many interests and roles and why not have one place where you can find all of it? Could be good.<p>After setting up my account I feel a bit overwhelmed though. And I&#x27;m not sure what to do next. The onboarding would probably better in stages. Right now I&#x27;m confronted with a wall of text and many unfamiliar concepts.<p>I would also question the wording of the main features. &quot;Personas&quot; or &quot;expressions&quot; are not self-explanatory. I have to read the explanation to understand what they are. I have a lot of things on my mind already and need to keep track of even more things in my life. This feels like I have to learn these concepts first before I can do anything. They&#x27;re also defined in a circle:<p>&gt; Personas: We have many talents and interests, persona is a way to group and present expressions and content in a cohesive way.<p>&gt; Expressions: Expressions are added to your personas to showcase your awesome content. You can create them in personas.<p>I find that confusing.<p>Maybe an onboarding in stages would alleviate that. But I would also propose to rethink these terms and maybe look for something more familiar.<p>The form to add a new persona is also more for the tech people out there and not so much for a creative thinker. I am supposed to choose a &quot;Slug&quot;? I personally know what that is and why it might seem important. But I can see how confused other people would be who are just looking for a nice place to post their content.
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avgDev将近 2 年前
&quot;For the past few months I&#x27;ve been working extremely hard on this side hustle in my spare time&quot;<p>Please for the love of god stop using the term &quot;side hustle&quot;. I don&#x27;t want to spend any time helping &quot;hustlers&quot;. The term gives me instant negative vibes.<p>Am I the only one?
nonameiguess将近 2 年前
Are these sign up links solely for writers? Has anyone actually signed up yet? I can&#x27;t find any links to read or listen to anything. How do consumers use this? Just read whatever you want? Does it require a login? Do you have to subscribe to read? Are all users treated the same with the assumption that anyone signing up wants to both publish and consume?<p>These are questions of curiosity, but my uncharitable honest feedback has nothing to do with your product, more that I&#x27;ve come to believe the entire concept of &quot;content creation&quot; has become epistemically bankrupt and harmful to the world, exacerbating hustle culture and feelings of personal inadequacy, while commoditizing that flow of data into consumer eyeballs further away from useful information and entertainment with any artistic value into quick bites of maximally simplistic outrage bait and cheap dopamine hits.<p>I don&#x27;t think you can solve this problem. Avoiding VC funding is great, but the content creators themselves have bad incentives regardless of how the platform funds itself. I don&#x27;t claim to know <i>how</i> to solve this problem, but encouraging people to become the loudest shouter in a crowded room full of people only vaguely paying attention most of the time isn&#x27;t it.
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pxue将近 2 年前
Read through your marketing page and the &quot;why i built it&quot; blog post, still unclear what exactly is the problem you&#x27;re solving.
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erispoe将近 2 年前
The discover page looks like a flow of SEO optimized AI-generated content.
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LoganDark将近 2 年前
i see the word &quot;personas&quot; and immediately think: have you thought about how your platform could be used by plural systems, or people with dissociative identity disorder, who have multiple entities in one body? cohost allows multiple &quot;pages&quot; per account, completely unlinked and independent from each other, and this is absolutely invaluable for systems. how do these &quot;personas&quot; stack up?<p>(i could be entirely misunderstanding what &quot;persona&quot; means, but the question still stands)<p>the reason i wonder this is because we are a system with dissociative identity disorder and we would want to be able to express ourselves individually. on HN we do share one account but on cohost we each have our own pages<p>here is a resource explaining plurality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morethanone.info" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morethanone.info</a>
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arcbyte将近 2 年前
It looks very cool. I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s a bug or what but I can&#x27;t seem to get the the &quot;New Post&quot; button to enable to actually create something. It&#x27;s also very confusing and unclear what Expressions are. I love how you immediately start with &quot;there are four concepts here&quot;, but expressions is murky and after playing with it, I don&#x27;t have any intuition for how these concepts actually manifest on a profile.
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hdivider将近 2 年前
Thank you for the &quot;non-VC backed&quot; part. Good to remind people that innovation can thrive without VC worship.
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ansanabria将近 2 年前
The concept behind it seems great, but as others have pointed out, I am missing the screenshots or some kind of video that lets me see what the platform is like. There is also some weird padding at the sides of the landing page.
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passwordoops将近 2 年前
Signed up and will give it a run. The messaging says all the right things and the page looks nice and clean. So I&#x27;m hopeful so far! I&#x27;ll try to get more useful feedback
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collaborative将近 2 年前
Side menu button is not initially padded (mobile)
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LoganDark将近 2 年前
also, all the dotted-underlined text doesn&#x27;t seem to have any tooltips for us? had to open devtools to discover that you seem to be using some data-tippy-... attribute, presumably for some javascript to pick up, but why can&#x27;t you just use regular html `title`?
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dtdannen将近 2 年前
You could get instant users if you make it compatible on the Nostr ecosystem
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neovialogistics将近 2 年前
Is it entirely hosted in Australia?
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catapart将近 2 年前
Quick QA ticket: Saving a &quot;link&quot; type expression with no value will is allowed, but will cause an Internal Server Error when trying to visit the persona page where the expression is displayed.<p>That aside, I was surprised to not see any video support! I know that&#x27;s my fault - you didn&#x27;t say anything about video support - but it&#x27;s hard for me to take a content-creation&#x2F;social-media pitch seriously if it doesn&#x27;t support even short-form video content. As someone working on my own side hustle, pricing what it would take for even modest video support, I understand exactly how infeasible this is for you! Just letting you know that most people won&#x27;t understand, so you really have to take people by the hand with this so that they don&#x27;t try to treat it like another social media platform.<p>To that end, I will say that you are in DESPERATE need of a &quot;guided tour&quot; feature. I wasn&#x27;t able to create a new &quot;Post&quot; object until I had created a Persona, and then an Expression, and even that was poorly communicated. After I had created an expression, I tried to make a post, but it still just said &#x27;you need to make an expression before you can post&#x27;. Which was specifically, technically correct in its wording to be &quot;true&quot;, but there was no way for me to parse what it said (&#x27;x kind of expression&#x27;) into something I understood (I needed a Blog type of expression, which is apparently at least one subtype of the explicit type that was needed). I&#x27;m hoping that I missed the obvious stuff that says &quot;make a post to your main account page&quot;, which doesn&#x27;t require any setup in order for a user to make a simple &#x27;hello world&#x27; post. But if I did miss it, there&#x27;s your feedback about that. If I didn&#x27;t, there should be either a quick step-by-step, or an auto-setup example.<p>With all of that out of the way, I&#x27;m otherwise pretty impressed! The site functions well and works with a type of friction that I&#x27;m sure all creatives have felt, which is how to manage disparate types of creative output in something that can manage them all well. I think the idea of personas and expressions maps pretty cleanly onto categorization that many people do for their work, so it all comes across very clearly. If I had one complaint about how it&#x27;s mapped, it&#x27;s that it is handled a little too &quot;programmer-y&quot; for general UX. I know that&#x27;s not a super-helpful problem description, but a general rule of thumb is that if you can clearly understand how the data is broken down to be stored, it&#x27;s probably too much &quot;cruft&quot; for general user engagement. More succinctly - I don&#x27;t need to understand &quot;expressions&quot; or any kind of sub content like that; I just need to understand that I want to &quot;post&quot; as &quot;this persona&quot;. However you need to handle that to make it seamless is where architectural elegance comes in.<p>Moving on, it&#x27;s well-documented, the interface is straightforward and snappy, and it looks like it&#x27;s got good expected functionality, like discovery features and personal feeds. As far as the well-tread areas, you&#x27;ve definitely put together something that looks rock solid. Great work on the execution! After seeing so many &quot;new twitter&quot;s in the past 6 months, it&#x27;s nice to see a site just doing the simple stuff right. That&#x27;s half the damn battle, right there.<p>There are other minor things, like deleting personas that have expressions not managing those subrecords by user intent (in my case, it just didn&#x27;t delete the expressions; no prompt to delete, keep, or reassign). But those are all pretty &quot;either way&quot; kind of things; I&#x27;m not trying to nag. It&#x27;s a pretty awesome product, so far, and it looks like its got legs to be something remarkable! Looking forward to it!
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djbusby将近 2 年前
I don&#x27;t see any mention of ActivityPub or Federation.
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