amr_shawky

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Comment · 1 month ago
Technical pre-sales?
Comment · 3 months ago
you don't ask the legal department, this way its both black market and white market simultaneously
Comment · 5 months ago
Noted, I wasn't sure about the sticky scroll on the landing page, now I'm definitely getting rid of it.
Comment · 5 months ago
Its for the photos, in a nutshell the 'chat' will inherit/show you albums from everywhere that the user/group is a subset. For example, if you have a family group with a bunch of family photos, and you open the 'chat' with a sibling, you'll also see the family photos since the sibling is a subset of the family, unless you toggle inherited off, in that case it'll only show you albums with you and your sibling exclusively. Just a filtering mechanism for convenience
Comment · 5 months ago
I think your analysis about the feed is correct, but the intention isn't to create a traditional feed to scroll for hours, we have plenty of those that do a very good job already. Its more of a different interface for effectively a chat platform where you send links/posts from different parts of the internet directly to a few people you know. The purpose of the feed stops becoming something to scroll to discover new content and more like instagram chat in a unified place, but instead of memes it can be whatever you want.
Comment · 5 months ago
The business side of things might become a challenge, I have some ideas on how to overcome this without affecting the core product, but its definitely going to be a lot of experimentation. As for the scattered users, because its private its useful as a way of directly sending interesting things from other platforms to someone you know, rather than competing with those platforms. As long as there's one other person you know, its closer to a messaging service for links/posts than a traditional social network

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