Hey.Café is a social network built around communities called cafés. Using the social network requires beans you can earn more based on the time you are on the app.
Not only is this service ad free, but it's fast and contains no analytics tracking at all.
The entire app and site is built on a single JavaScript block that includes no third party code, no linked dependencies, and no remote loaded resources including CSS. The entire app can be viewed via inspect element. Server side is custom and we use NodeHost servers for the backend API.
Yes you can upload images, files, edit posts and more!
Anyone can create a café (community) using 500 beans, and the admin can manage users and make the café private, public, control who can view posts and what type of members can react or comment. This gives you control over your own café and the content shared. You can make other members moderators or admins and they can manage and hide posts in a café by clicking the triple dots to moderate a conversation or comment.
I hope you would join and give feedback as this was mostly built in the last 2 weeks. Lot's of updates are already getting planned and we will be updating the app constantly.
You can also use on iOS and Android as a PWA app with great performance, just tap share and Add To Home Screen.
Thanks for taking a look and I hope you give us some feedback.
@prakis Sorry for the long delay but yes it's something I am working on but we added embeds, for example you can see that on https://anthonys.space and you can see the code for the embeds on https://wave.hey.cafe
@aris_alexis I missed so many messages on PH, the ability to now embed, and lots of new stuff on the way including the ability to import RSS feeds is next, and the ability for users to subscribe to a person or a cafe (community) and get email updates and so on.
@anthonyrossbach this is superb! I created an account and worked with it... super fast!
Feature request: get prompt for different account names after writing '@' :)
Looks promising!!
I would like to mention that there are a lot of mistakes on the grammar and spelling level in the homepage. If you'd like me o help you concerning copywriting, I am ready for it.
Wish you the best.
-abd
Love the design and implementation. Great job!
I somehow cannot verify my email. I keep getting "Unable to save data".
Also I cannot figure out how to change my profile photo.
@naveed_rehman The entire app is a single JS block in the browser, so pages and more and extremely fast loading. Most pages can load once it's open within 300ms with requests, otherwise within a few MS.
Made an account and looked around, so far I love the concept! Really fun design, very fast performance, and the beans concept is pretty cool! Really reminds me of the early 00's on the Internet, where sites were fun to use!
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