We got frustrated with social media so we built our own platform -here's our story
I'm Lee, Army veteran, 38 years old, living with ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. I built EchoSphere from scratch on a 2015 Chromebook with no outside engineering and no VC money.
The problem we're solving is simple but painful. Most platforms show your posts to around 6% of your followers no matter how hard you've worked to build that audience. Creators are burning out chasing algorithms that were never designed to help them succeed.
So my co-founder Lola and I built EchoSphere. A brand new social platform where your followers actually see every post. No algorithm games. No shadow banning. No pay-to-play.
Your content. Your audience. Your home. 🏡
We've been building for just over a year and have 19 creators already signed up from the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain and beyond. Zero paid ads — purely founder hustle.
We're building this in public and would love your feedback, support and brutal honesty.
👉 https://echo-human-hub.lovable.app
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The algorithm visibility problem you're describing is real, but I think there are actually two sides to it. For creators, yeah, reaching your audience is broken. But for users/consumers, the bigger issue is that algorithms are specifically designed to keep you scrolling endlessly through content you never asked for.
I've been using a tool on Mac that takes a different approach to this - instead of building a new platform, it just blocks the algorithmic feed portions of existing platforms (YouTube homepage, X timeline, Reddit front page) while keeping search and direct content access working. So you can still use the platforms intentionally, you just don't get sucked into the infinite scroll.
Different approach than yours but tackling the same frustration from the user side. Curious how you're thinking about content discovery without an algorithm - chronological feed only?
Same energy as what pushed me to build my own thing. Frustration with existing tools is honestly the best product validation you can get, you know the problem intimately because you lived it.
How are you handling discovery? That's usually the hardest part after building.
Great idea, I will join your community.