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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 | 1 comments | 11 Mar 25 01:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.276s | 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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nicgrev103 ◴[11 Mar 25 16:06 UTC] No.43333873[source]▶
I wish someone made a social media site that has no news feed or any feed, like the facebook of old. Only get notifications and updates from actual people who you have friended. I genuinely think this would be popular, it wouldn't drive the engagement that the feeds and algos do but it would be a more wholesome experience the one we all bought into at the dawn of the social network, only for our friends to be swapped out for a constant drip of 'engaging' content.
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gryn ◴[11 Mar 25 16:30 UTC] No.43334155[source]▶
what would It do, that WhatsApp currently doesn't ?
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1. corytheboyd ◴[11 Mar 25 16:49 UTC] No.43334433[source]▶
Facebook gave you access to friends of friends, which was huge when EVERYONE was on it. That coupled with the Events system was pretty awesome. I don’t know if WhatsApp does this TBH, but it’s something you don’t get with typical messengers.