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Show HN: Oyie – A micro social app to stay in sync with your friends

by vasanthv on 9/15/23, 12:45 PM with 27 comments

• by mock-possum on 9/15/23, 5:16 PM

  Man this seems like exactly the sort of thing I’d be into… if my family and friends would use it too.

  The biggest problem with social apps is getting buy-in from everybody else. Everyone needs to sign up for a new account, install a new app, pay attention to a new thing, think in a new paradigm. And since I’m the one who suggests it, I’m the one that plays support when they inevitably lose their password, or can’t figure out how to shorten links to share, can’t figure out how to host images or link to specific content or specific places in content…

  Which is why everybody still begrudgingly uses Facebook I suppose.

• by rhim on 9/16/23, 10:53 AM

  How is this different to a group chat in any messenger?

• by coffeedan on 9/16/23, 2:50 AM

  I get an error trying to enable notifications (on iPhone safari):

  undefined is not an object (evaluating 'swReg.pushManager.subscribe')

• by aendruk on 9/15/23, 3:44 PM

  What is Oyie? → Page not found

• by evbogue on 9/15/23, 4:02 PM

  Great minimalist design choices here.

  I felt myself longing for profile photos, but also I am willing for them to be left out.

• by stefanvdw1 on 9/15/23, 7:45 PM

  Looks fun! And always nice to be able to grab the handle you want when you are one of the first to join

• by aerzen on 9/15/23, 8:07 PM

  Nice. Can this be self hosted?

• by MerelyMortal on 9/16/23, 4:58 AM

  Nice and simple UI, thank you.

  How can we get people to switch from services like X/Twitter or other chat apps to something like this though?

• by ReverieFish on 9/16/23, 10:21 AM

  Isn't this conceptually similar to twtxt?

• by vpol on 9/16/23, 2:15 AM

  Looks cool, tried to register. Received email verification link, but when I click it - I get:

  > Invalid email verification code

• by luxpir on 9/16/23, 6:49 AM

  Interesting, thanks. Just heard of t2.social and looked at bluesky yesterday. Glad competition continuing.

• by henry_pulver on 9/16/23, 6:17 PM

  All the positive comments seem fake

• by rco8786 on 9/17/23, 11:54 AM

  Just setting up my oyie

• by eu on 9/16/23, 4:13 PM

  me gusta. what’s the tech behind this?

• by habibur on 9/16/23, 3:31 AM

  This market is currently dominated by IM group chats.

  In fact, most of the old social media has now moved over to chat groups.

• by lakomen on 9/16/23, 2:13 AM

  I never get the obsession with micro blogging.

  It's useless. An exercise.

  I don't get the praise in the comments. When I'm bored, that's the kind of simple and easy project I'd write. Or when testing a new framework or database etc.

  To each their own I guess. Not trying to be mean.

• by andrewstuart on 9/16/23, 3:20 AM

  Whatsapp message groups seem to be the new family facebook.