Privacy-friendly Twitter Reader
Decent is an ad-free, privacy-first Twitter reading experience
Recently I was thinking that it's kind of a bummer that you have to register to get a first view of your timeline.
This is why I added, right on the landing page, the possibility to preview your private Twitter timeline.
With just one click. I'm tracking the event via plausible and hope that it helps to convert a bit more users.
Woohoo! Decent.social launched on ProductHunt!
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Check out decent.social on ProductHunt!
Week 42 was great!
I managed to get quite a few things done, below a short recap.
Today I reached 50 subscribers, an important milestone for decent.social
In the following days I plan to send out a new issue of the newsletter, containing some blog posts written last week and sharing the progress made on the MVP.
The MVP is more streamlined and the on-boarding should be quite simple now.
Just signup (either via email or via Twitter login) and you're presented with a form to configure your Decent profile.
Today I logged in to buttondown and noticed 46 people seem to be interested in https://decent.social/
At this point I will consider continuing building on the MVP and get feedback from beta users for the whole month of October.
At the end of the month I will think if it's worth continuing betting on decent.social or not :)
This is the current experience when deep diving in a tweet.
Just click on it an view in in an expanded fashion:
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One thing that I noticed is that if you navigate back to the homepage, the previous timeline position is lost.
Quite unfortunate, have to find a solution for it.
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+3 subscribers! This makes it a list of 42 people interested in app.decent.social
Check app.decent.social (try it out for free during beta!)
Today was a pretty decent day
3 new subscribers, almost 180 uniques.
The blog post about Get things done for real reached ~140 people.
Also shared Fast virtual scrolling with preact on HackerNews and Reddit and reached almost 20 people.
It features now an intuitive navigation via TAB
.
Currently the only keyboard shortcut available is shift + /
to toggle the search.
I think the search turned out powerful enough to give the idea how fast you could browse Twitter.
Cleaned up the FAQ section with Bootstrap's accordion component.
Turned out pretty neat!
Check out the FAQ section.
Just posted this on HackerNews
https://decent.social/blog/2020-10-11-Get-things-done-for-real/
It's a story about bringing a product from idea, to validation, to MVP in two weeks:
Here you can follow the HackerNews discussion!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24748067
Hopefully this brings some curious folks in to trying the beta of app.decent.social for free
Some improvements on app.decent.social (YES, you can try it out right now!)
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How the settings page looks like:
You can configure your username, so that we fetch the accounts you're currently following on Twitter.
Or, you can cherry pick the accounts using the textarea.
Received some great design feedback from friends!
###聽Mailing list
Today or tomorrow I plan to send out a message to my 36 subscribers and let them know about app.decent.social.
I have a Minimal Viable Product for Decent!
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On sunday I will write to the subscribers that the beta has officially started.
The app can already be used here (for free now)
Today I spent some time to connect the dots between decent-social-cli
and the server.
New routes on the API side
The client is written in preact.
Virtual scroll has been implemented for the timeline (it was too sluggish rendering all items).
Today 1 person subscribed to the newsletter (yesterday 2), which brings it to 36!
14 people left and I will continue working on Decent!
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I got the authentication working for the MVP.
Using Auth0 + express + mongo (+ redis) on the backend.
Preact + bootstrap on the frontend
Here you can find the repository of the application code:
If you want in, get free early access by entering your email in the signup box!
Decent is an ad-free, privacy-first Twitter reading experience