swytch

hi, I'm the creator of swytch. Actually I don't agree that the interface looks similar - i assume you're referring to the screenshots they released? Besides the colours what else is similar and just how would you expect a news feed to look? What you see on my site is typical of what you might see on any site designed by a programmer. No frills and functional.

As for privacy, we're not the only ones working on addressing the privacy issue, that doesn't make us a clone.

thanks for the feedback, very useful. Integration with other services is on the todo list but for the time being I want to focus on the core features and user experience.

I think it can be useful without a large existing social graph. For example, I went to a local tech meetup last month and met some interesting people. I wouldn't necessarily add them as facebook friends but I am following them on twitter. The downside is I now get updates on anything they post when I only really want updates on the things they're working on.

As I said in a previous comment I think social network is the wrong label for this product. It's more of a group communication tool. The broadcast/follow model is a very efficient and useful way for groups to communicate and that's the core of of swytch.net - it's group communication with less noise and more signal. Because it's not trying to be the 'one true network' it doesn't need a huge social graph. Just the people that you want to communicate with in a specific context need to be on it.

> Signup was easy, the username admin was available. Sweet.

:)

thanks for the feedback. I need to rethink the 'social network' moniker. It's more of a communication tool.