louispereira

Cheers!

Hey! I'm glad you like it :)

I can't predict the future, but I can say that I'm a team of one who isn't looking for VC funding. Even if I was, I doubt they'd fund me.

I'm going to keep this platform alive for as long as I am alive, and if I can help it, even longer. You have my word.

Regarding the tags, great suggestion. Will add it to my list.

And regarding your earlier point, I agree. I'm yet to clear up the positioning of the site. I'm struggling with 2 separate, but intertwined angles. 1. A low-pressure place to write in public, because writing helps you clarify your thoughts. 2. A place to keep up with what your existing circle of friends is up to in life

You can't have 2 without 1, and hence most of the messaging is geared towards 1 right now. I'm thinking about ways to encourage users to invite their IRL friends to participate, as I think there's a powerful, albeit small, network effect to be had.

Hey, yes. On your dashboard, you can click on the export button next to your list of Published posts. It will export a CSV file with all your posts.

I'm going to screenshot this thread so I can look at it repeatedly. Thank you for this.

Thanks, Chris! I didn't launch here though, I was just pleasantly surprised because a kind soul decided to share it :)

Also, I forgot to mention. I don't have any plans of getting $$ from VCs as of now. Nicheless is a side project that I run because I believe it should exist. I hope that doesn't change in the future, unless I have no other option.

Hey! Thank you for giving Nicheless a try. I read your post a little while ago :)

Regarding your questions:

1. The URL will auto generate and append a digit to the end in case the title of the post has already been taken before.

2. I don't think of Nicheless as a replacement for a personal website or blog (I have both, maintained separately). I want Nicheless to be a place for more experimental thoughts. A space for ideas, a minority of which graduate into more polished articles on your personal blog. Also, I want Nicheless to be a place that facilitates exchange of thoughts and ideas between existing social connections, both IRL and online, and not with the primary focus being the open network on the internet (like Twitter). I've written a bit about it here:https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

I'm aware that the positioning of the platform is still a bit fuzzy, and a lot of my goals aren't exactly obvious to users, but I'm going to work to improve on that.

Thank you for giving it a try, and for taking the time to leave your feedback here :)

I'm very camera shy. But thanks for the suggestion. I might do it in the future if I can muster enough courage.

Thank you!

Might do a dark mode in the future!

Cheers :)

Hey. I had a conversation with one of my closest friends a few days ago, and this is exactly how I described what I want Nicheless to become.

I wrote something similar here that might resonate: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

I stumbled upon this use case almost by accident, when a few of my IRL friends published stuff on Nicheless. I realised I looked forward to reading what they were upto or thinking about. And then figured other people might like the same experience.

Thank you for sharing that you think about it similarly.

Yes! Exactly the way I see it as well. A layer 1 ecosystem for thoughts outside my mind. Substack is a layer 2 that is much more polished. Thanks for signing up :)

> As a mild-OCD perfectionist I'm literally grinding my teeth imagining doing it this way.

Haha sorry I understand what you mean!

>If title doesn't have to be unique this already seems as an acceptable compromise.

Yes, currently the title doesn't have to be unique. The platform will just generate a unique URL for each post based on the title, and append a digit if necessary.

> Nice point. Any chance I could copy a post URL or open it in a background page straight from the posts list?

It was initially set up like this, but a bunch of users (mainly on mobile) complained that they didn't like the fact that each post opened in a separate tab. They wanted to just read a post and scroll to the next one easily. That's why I've moved to the current format. Maybe I could make it behave differently on desktop. I'll keep this in mind.

Thanks!

Thank you, Benji!

Hey! I just noticed that! You're the first person to write in a different script, so it's not a problem I experienced until now. Will figure out a way to make the URL neater by default, although you can currently edit it as well.

Btw, I'm also Indian (from Goa) so it's amazing to see posts in one of our many regional languages :)

Thank you! If you're curious about how to use it, I personally use it as a layer 1 for my thoughts. It helps me think about them more deeply than I would otherwise do if I was just talking to myself or writing in a private journal. Eventually, I plan on taking some thoughts and graduating them into full blown blog posts on my main website.

Phew!

Hey! I'm sorry you find the title intimidating. You could just use a random character in your title, or even a whitespace, to achieve the effect of a title-free place to post.

Regarding the individual URL, if you don't want to click to copy it using the current flow, you could just CMD+Shift+C to copy the URL?

haha, I've never used Mastodon, but maybe you're on to something!

Hey! I've found that constraints make it easier for people to take action. The word limit does that for me. It's long enough to allow for nuance around a single topic, and short enough to not be intimidating to start, as well as to force some clarity of thought.

The goal here is to help people create and communicate in a one to many & many to one manner within small communities. I'm still working on making it easier or more obvious to do that, but I'm going to keep trying!

Agreed. I haven't solved that problem myself. Most of my own friends haven't switched to Nicheless, although most of them don't write elsewhere either. To me, nicheless is an ideal space for those that are afraid to publish online to start doing so. I'm yet to figure out how to make that happen.

I'll keep at it till I figure it out though.

Yup, that's an interesting idea. Will keep a note of it when I decide to run the experiment. Thank you!

Hey Asim. I appreciate you taking the time to thoughtfully (and elegantly) lay out your thoughts.

At the moment, I don't want Nicheless to perform a similar function to Twitter. I love Twitter and use it daily, but I find it useful as a space to reach a broad audience of people I don't know. An open network with unlimited growth potential.

With nicheless, I want it to be the opposite. A place to follow people you already know, either from real life, or from existing social connections. I want it to be a place for a higher density of thought to be exchanged for a smaller group of people. I've written a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

In fact, I'm even considering capping the number of people you can 'follow' on Nichless. Maybe it will help create an algorithm free feed of interesting thoughts that spark real life conversations. I don't know yet, but I might experiment and find out.

Let me know what you think?

Thank you! I appreciate it.

Hey. You're right. But there are lots of folks who don't have the time to build and maintain a site themselves.

Besides, I'm hoping to make Nicheless more than just a micro blogging platform. My goal is to make it into a space that encourages groups of people to share their thoughts without fear, and eventually let the exchange of those ideas percolate into real life discussions.

It's still a long way out from becoming that, but it's the goal. I've written a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

Oh that's strange. Not sure why that's happening but I'll look into it when I can. Thanks for bringing it to my notice.

Long enough to allow for nuance. Short enough to compel clarity of thought. That's the goal :)

Thank you!