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linuz90 | 4 years ago

Honestly appreciate the feedback. I think we have a few things to address, but especially these two:

- Make our "pitch" better adding more info on our login modal, especially on what exact feature set to expect, and what's behind a paid Pro plan (the Profiles feature is completely free though) - We definitely need to add custom domain support to Profiles, but it was just out of scope for the MVP. I'd love to have it myself, it's high on our list.

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techdragon|4 years ago

Glad to know it’s high on the list. I’d personally be happy paying a small surcharge for it. I’ve looked at making whatever I end up building to solve this need for myself into some kind of SaaS and I’m aware how much of a PITA user provided domains can be with regards to SSL certificates, so I’m not at all surprised it didn’t make the cut on your otherwise nicely polished MVP. (Automatically merging thread / multiple posts definitely isn’t on my own MVP haha)

I hope my feedback didn’t come across too brutal. I’ve just been looking for good replacements for Syte2 as a personal feed aggregator since Atlas mongodb got dropped from the heroku free tier (cause of the mongodb inc buyout) neatly 2 years ago and their and Syte3 got way too complicated with the lambda and dynamo and too much JavaScript for me thanks… I’ve been slowly building my own replacement for literally years since a redirect to Twitter solves 80% of my need (other than visual branding and control) so whenever I come across a product that might solve this, I charge forth eager to hand over money if it’s a good fit, since I know it’s hard work, except every damn one either isn’t ready, is abandoned, is a bespoke enterprise social engagement platform that wants you to “talk to us for pricing. It’s slowly building up a layer of cynicism that’s probably leaking out into how harshly I judge any new product I come across at this point.

But like I said, it is a polished flow to your primary product which looks good but I just have no need for and I’m just a picky customer for your new feature with a specific need you don’t support (yet). The world needs more products to pull some control back from the major social platforms, even if it’s only control over presentation!