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It's more complex than housing imo. There's an entire culture of people who wouldn't take the housing if you gave it to them. I've seen it first hand.

100%, my experience getting to front page of HN twice with https://sqwok.im

I found Twitter to not be a great place to recruit new users, granted it was probably partly because I was using the official account for the site, not a personal account with my face, and the nature of "real-time" means w/o coordinated events where people show up at the same time, the bounce rate is high.

What was the hn clone you built? Still working on community site(s)?

Sounds like you need to find a renewed sense of motivation and optimism. That's something only you can find and it comes from within.

I'd do some soul searching on what makes you happy, or what types of projects, hobbies, scenarios, products, companies, change of scenery, etc would bring some type of new excitement into your life.

Sounds like you are bored at the core, and no that is not uncommon imo. I've experienced it myself and often I need to take a break of some form, completely disconnecting from work for awhile.

Have you tried consulting? There are tradeoffs but when you get to make your own decisions about the tech being used it at least lets you have a sense of agency and control, and you can pick whatever makes you happy and gets the job done.

I feel you though, it seems more and more frequent that I dream of moving to Montana and living on a farm.

Creator of Sqwok here, you can have long-lived real-time conversations that will get bumped even if they're older, while also having notifications, @mentions, embeds, following, search, themes (including "hacker" https://imgur.com/a/qHkopKO), etc. The ranking algo is based off live conversation activity.

I did a Show HN back in April and have been quietly continuing to develop the site. Open to ideas/suggestions as well.

https://sqwok.im

Agree, learned about a part of the world I was completely ignorant of. Must have been a crazy time filming.

Vice was amazing back in the day. I still remember watching the Vice guide to travel - Liberia, and NK episodes. Def opened my eyes a bit and took some courage to film.

Have enjoyed the All-In pod for macro tech/biz/culture/etc https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja...

Yep people have talked about using micropayments for news for at least a decade.

This will really open pandoras box for scammers and other bad actors. Grandma won't know she's speaking with an AI.

Was visualizing the cabin during that last 360 circle, followed by the "slew" maneuver, must have been surreal.

Maybe superficial but it seemed "tacked on" in terms of UI/UX. I don't think most people go to Twitter to read newsletters, and the way it was implemented just felt weird.

> and found an easier business to start.

That's true, then again hindsight is 20/20!

> I made a lot of rookie mistakes over the years that limited Preceden’s growth including not focusing on a specific niche, not spending enough time marketing, not talking to enough customers, trying to do too much myself, and just in general picking a difficult product and business to build (something I didn’t give any thought to initially).

This really resonates with me. I've been building a new social app, that's taken awhile to build, and I've faced the same challenges along the way.

It'd be real easy to give up on a project before it's really found pmf. To keep going, to believe in it and not give up is encouraging. Great to hear your story!

Haha ok that makes sense, thanks for clarifying!

May I ask, what was it about Google+ that you enjoyed?

That's not really a fair comparison and you know it. Elon Musk, Tesla, etc have proven track records.

> like Elon Fucking Musk, can take that away from you

I was thinking the same thing, was this person in such an outrage when Jack Dorsey was at the helm?

My thought exactly, well said.

While he brings up valid and interesting points to consider, I thought the article was sabotaged by his obvious disdain for Musk. He tried to camouflage it with some initial flattery but then devolved into hyperbole about hyper tunnel and Tesla bot, both of which are real projects with real engineers and people working on them.

Full send.

The moment a non-tech/non-enthusiast user has to choose a server you already lost them. Same reason IRC never went mainstream.

Funny lately I keep thinking how much I want to get rid of my iphone, or any all-glass phone, and go back to haptic keyboard with minimal screen for basic functions.

Same reason people don't give up their morning latte, a relationship, food, behavior, or anything else that brings them pleasure.

This is awesome, impressed you threw this together over a weekend!

What did you use to make that entity diagram?

edit: answered below

Holtz said last night he does not work for Twitter, and is focused on what he's passionate about which is solving self-driving car automation.

Twitter wasn't built as a community platform. It's always had the user-centric model, which works well for the types of people who helped it gain popularity to begin with, namely journalists, celebrities, politicians, brands, gov agencies etc.

If you're doing it strictly for learning, webrtc might not be bad to dabble with (something I want to do as well). For a real project I'd probably go w/existing solution for early iteration.

What'd you use for chat?

Is that the same event source that's been available to the aws::serverless::function transform for awhile now?

> just recently got my self out of homelessness and addiction

That's huge! Congratulations, you should feel proud of making a positive change like that. Many, many people do not recover and don't make it. Many of them don't _want_ to.

Life is largely dictated by our pesky brain and how we view the world. 46 isn't _that_ old, you still have a ton of life ahead and if you view it from the lens of breaking free from your own personal prison, finally getting the opportunity to experience the fresh air of tranquility, you might just realize the future is indeed bright and not dim.

Good luck friend.

Sure, but there are other centralized services not implementing such policies, and I don't think Twitter would exist today in current form if not for being centralized & well funded. I guess there are just tradeoffs in either choice.