TL;DR: programs today are effing boring. Need more cyberpunk in my life
After spending all my money on creating a community platform no-one wanted, in a style that I thought would fit most people (but didn't particularly enjoy myself, too vanilla), I got tired and decided to create something I've wanted in my daily life since I read Neuromancer the first time 20yrs ago.
This is what I'm working on. It's early, like really early, but it's a f*cking JOY to work on and use already! Right now I'm trying to move my friends over from Discord to this, but if there is interest in a voice/text chat app for a broader mass of ppl, I'd love to make a real product out of it and do this for a living!
What ya think?
Sushi-style feedback welcome (raw and fresh).
I hate how much effort goes into app/web design that ends up rearranging the boxes while the whole stuff still looks bland, corporate, mass market, no risk, safe, BORING.
It would spark joy to use an app like this. Definitely not mass market and I mean that as a compliment.
Oooooh @b0bben, you got me hooked with that awesome aesthetic! Please keep working on it! I'd be interested in using this app!
A few rhetorical questions:
* Will this be (similar to discord) centrally hosted/managed? That is, would it be like other chat apps in that there is a central server, and clients connect to/are dependent upon it? Or....will it be more federated (like email, matrix)...or will it be peer-to-peer? (I'm sure the more centralized, likely the easier for you to implement, but i figured i'd ask...since i tend to favor less centralized options...but that's just me.)
* If you go the route of open sourcing this, and possibly even enabling self-hosting...have you considered what techstack would be used, such that, it might be easier for folks to spin up their own, and hence you might get more participation from folks who more likely might be into this kind of approach (and cyberpunk aeshetic)? (I know docker, containers are a thing nowadays and may in many cases the techstack becomes less important and often eases the self-hosting burden, but, figured i'd ask.)
I should clarify: NONE of my questions are demands...This is your baby, and you should build it as YOU WISH! My questions are merely rhetorical, and you don't even need to respond to...merely giving you some food for thought. I love me some cyberpunk, and not only aesthetic, but especially the freedoms and approach to libre-centric "lifestyle"...so a cool-looking chat app like what your video showed would pair well with folks who think about at least some of the things i asked about above. ;-)
Anyway, cheers to you on this app, and keep on building it; looks great!!!!!
Looks really cool! I've also been experimenting with cyberpunk-y looking ui but this is far cooler than what I've come up with. Although it's funny seeing hints of material design poking through since i kinda associate MD with a lot of corporate dashboards.
haha, you're onto me with material design (which I really dislike), because it's built into Flutter, which I'm using for this, in a lot of places. BIGCORPO is onto us ;)
thx.
i'm a huge proponent of privacy as well. right now there's nothing to that end, but e2ee is on the (huge) todo list. it's gonna take a while since it's a big undertaking, but it's gonna happen.
hej everyone, thx for the awesome feedback! :D
you can download an early alpha, lots of issues, but i'm fixing them and adding cool stuff as fast as i can :)
Download here: https://molly-da7e3.web.app/
(macos is signed, windows is not, waiting for MS to approve me for certificates, dont download unsigned binaries from internet strangers...i'm nice tho)
I mean; I’m flattered but this is missing my trademark nine inch nails t-shirt and ripped jeans, oksh as $SHELL and exquisite taste in fonts and headphones that I associate with my personal brand…
b0bben|11 months ago
After spending all my money on creating a community platform no-one wanted, in a style that I thought would fit most people (but didn't particularly enjoy myself, too vanilla), I got tired and decided to create something I've wanted in my daily life since I read Neuromancer the first time 20yrs ago.
This is what I'm working on. It's early, like really early, but it's a f*cking JOY to work on and use already! Right now I'm trying to move my friends over from Discord to this, but if there is interest in a voice/text chat app for a broader mass of ppl, I'd love to make a real product out of it and do this for a living!
What ya think? Sushi-style feedback welcome (raw and fresh).
Cheers, b0bben
senko|11 months ago
I hate how much effort goes into app/web design that ends up rearranging the boxes while the whole stuff still looks bland, corporate, mass market, no risk, safe, BORING.
It would spark joy to use an app like this. Definitely not mass market and I mean that as a compliment.
mxuribe|11 months ago
A few rhetorical questions:
* Will this be (similar to discord) centrally hosted/managed? That is, would it be like other chat apps in that there is a central server, and clients connect to/are dependent upon it? Or....will it be more federated (like email, matrix)...or will it be peer-to-peer? (I'm sure the more centralized, likely the easier for you to implement, but i figured i'd ask...since i tend to favor less centralized options...but that's just me.)
* If you go the route of open sourcing this, and possibly even enabling self-hosting...have you considered what techstack would be used, such that, it might be easier for folks to spin up their own, and hence you might get more participation from folks who more likely might be into this kind of approach (and cyberpunk aeshetic)? (I know docker, containers are a thing nowadays and may in many cases the techstack becomes less important and often eases the self-hosting burden, but, figured i'd ask.)
I should clarify: NONE of my questions are demands...This is your baby, and you should build it as YOU WISH! My questions are merely rhetorical, and you don't even need to respond to...merely giving you some food for thought. I love me some cyberpunk, and not only aesthetic, but especially the freedoms and approach to libre-centric "lifestyle"...so a cool-looking chat app like what your video showed would pair well with folks who think about at least some of the things i asked about above. ;-)
Anyway, cheers to you on this app, and keep on building it; looks great!!!!!
grepexdev|11 months ago
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b0bben|11 months ago
(not mine, just something i found and use a lot for inspo)
ge96|11 months ago
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b0bben|11 months ago
haha, you're onto me with material design (which I really dislike), because it's built into Flutter, which I'm using for this, in a lot of places. BIGCORPO is onto us ;)
panja|11 months ago
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egypturnash|11 months ago
My inner edgelord teenager approves of the style though.
b0bben|11 months ago
thx for commenting, appreciate it <3
b0bben|11 months ago
(macos is signed, windows is not, waiting for MS to approve me for certificates, dont download unsigned binaries from internet strangers...i'm nice tho)
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b0bben|11 months ago
pepp: swedish word to "encourage, hype up"
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