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Show HN: HuggyList: A micro-blogging site in list format (now public)

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6 pointsdanidan1111 comments

Hello!

Excited to share the public version of HuggyList, a faster alternative to blogging.

I believe blogging is the best solution to share deep content but it is very time consuming and restricted to people with good writing skills.

Now, you can discover and share content in simple bullet points on HuggyList.

How it works: 1) Start a list 2) Decide whether the list is public or not (who can add items?) 3) Add bullet points (or items) as you go

Looking forward to your feedback!

This is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing. There's a few inconsistencies with your layout. On desktop, it (mostly) forces phone view, but when I went to add my list, for instance, the submit button stretched my entire window.

Also, the back button (top left) has some weird behavior. After adding a list and adding some things to the list, I tried to use the back arrow to go to the huggylist home and it instead took me back to the new list form.

Sorry I had some weird logic.. I will fix that asap

Yes I focused only on mobile so far. Will have to adjust the submit button. Desktop will come pretty soon.

Did you enjoy going through the content? I was thinking about producing much more so you can learn some exciting stuff without reading lengthly posts.

Yes? Very few posts actually contain more information than the little blurb... which makes it feel more like a curated Twitter hashtag than an actual blog, but that's not on you. That will come from people using it.

The similarity between the layout and twitter made a few things confusing: I tried clicking on a username to go to that user's profile and was instead directed to the list. This behavior is fine, but I think because the UI is so familiar, I wanted it to behave in a familiar way.

Good point, I should definitely adjust the UI so it feels familiar.

My goal is to keep the posts as lists of bullet points (keep it short). Too much text would not solve the problem of not having enough time to digest content. I was even thinking of limiting the number of characters like Twitter did.

Is it even different than Twitter? Yes, the content is structured and evergreen knowledge. What are your thoughts?

The content - right now - is structured and evergreen. If you suddenly attract a few thousand users, do you think you can maintain that? Do you expect to be able to curate all the posts? There doesn't seem to be any requirement for me to make a list be an actual list. I can make a single-bullet list and move on, so what prevents this from being just another link-sharing service like Tumblr?

These are all questions I'd be asking myself if this was my project. I like the concept and the layout is strong.

This is very true. That's literally what happened with the first users.. I decided to do some adjustments. I am happy to share my thoughts with you, let me know what you think:

1) Knowledge will be published from authorized channels only. Random users will no longer appear. 2) The YC Library is an example of channel I created. There will be more of those. I will curate all the posts until we have more traction 3) I am thinking of making channels subscription based. This would motivtate qualified people to build strong channels with good ratings.

BTW, thx for giving me so much feedback!

I can click on other people's bios to open the edit dialog. I shouldn't be able to do that, even if my edit does nothing. :-)

Wow, thanks!! That's an issue. Will fix that asap.

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