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Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

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735 points mklyons | 2 comments | 11 Mar 25 01:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source

I built this site as a quick test if a time boxed social media experience feels better than an endless one. So far I've just been using it with friends and it feels nice, but it seems like it is time to bring it to a larger audience.

Let me know what you think! It is just based on EST for now, sorry.

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andsoitis ◴[11 Mar 25 05:24 UTC] No.43329390[source]▶
> test if a time boxed social media experience feels better than an endless one

What is your hypothesis(es)?

That social media would be better if chats were synchronous rather than asynchronous? That the system can help people better balance between time spend in the virtual world and the physical world? Or something else?

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1. mklyons ◴[11 Mar 25 05:44 UTC] No.43329520[source]▶
That's pretty close to what I'm thinking. If you remove the endless, always-on nature of social media, could it create better content and better experiences? "Better" is subjective of course, so it is hard to have a tight hypothesis.
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2. andsoitis ◴[11 Mar 25 06:17 UTC] No.43329674[source]▶
> could it create better content and better experiences? "Better" is subjective of course, so it is hard to have a tight hypothesis.

Worth thinking about what metrics you think reflects “better” (content, experience). Something that measures quality of engagement. Retention should work.

One thing you’ll be up against is that thoughts don’t keep office hours, but someone might still want to share with their circle. You could consider creating a holding pen for things a user comes up with - they can record it, but it doesn’t flow yet. That also gives cooling off period which I bet could simultaneously give the satisfaction of immediate gratification (writing it down) and quality content (reflect before post).