Hey.Cafe
p/hey-cafe
A better safer social network
Anthony Lee
Hey.Cafe — Fast and lightweight social network for communities
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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.
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Anthony Lee
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.
Franco Colomba
You should consider tipping using dogecoins ;)
Anthony Lee
@francocolomba To be honest I really hate the crypto world.
Kishore
Looks very simple and beautiful. Is there an option to connect custom domain to a cafe? (or sub-domain).
Anthony Lee
@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
An
Refreshing take on social media! Kudos, Anthony!
Anthony Lee
@anthemaker Thanks!
Lisa Fichtenberg
Looks great, I will also be recommending this!!!
Suraj Keshri
super fast and looks super cool!
Anthony Lee
@quantdaddy That was a big thing about it, it had to be fast.
Itai Handler
Looks cool! I’ll actually gonna recommend it to my local artisan coffee hose!
Anthony Lee
@itai_handler1 Thanks! If you have any feedback that would be awesome, it's still early but I can't wait to add more features.
Vijaya Kumar Channalli
Love it so far @anthonyrossbach :) All the best :)
Anthony Lee
@vijayakumarc Thank you so much!
Aris Alexis
Apart from the UI what would be the benefit of the community to use this instead of discord,slack or reddit?
Anthony Lee
@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.
Aditya
@anthonyrossbach this is superb! I created an account and worked with it... super fast! Feature request: get prompt for different account names after writing '@' :)
Anthony Lee
@adityavsc Yes that and gif search and # auto fill for café names are in the todo, but I will add to the public list we have at https://lammcs.notion.site/c5997...
abdelali
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
Anthony Lee
@abdelali Thanks I have made some fixes, the front page is more temporary until a fancy page is finished. I will rework it.
Mingyi Zhao
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.
Anthony Lee
@mingyi_zhao Hey sorry for not responding, I am just checking my PH account now. That should be long fixed.
Naveed Rehman
congratulations on the launch. What do you mean by being "fast"?
Anthony Lee
@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.
Naveed Rehman
Is this your unique value proposition? i mean, are the users of current social networks screaming about this problem?
Bharat Pasam
Cool idea! How are you different from FB groups?
Anthony Lee
@bharatpasam oh a lot, we run on a kinda currency for media and activity and cafés are more like hashtags that are moderated than Facebook groups.
Aratrika Raychaudhuri
Cool!
Shashank Raj
Looks nice
Anthony Lee
Toney Jacob
Nice
Anthony Lee
Zachary Fetters
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!
Anthony Lee
@zachary_fetters Thats the entire idea, I still need to add email notifications if you leave the site as there are no app notifications.
Kafa Kurcalayan
Look cool! I like that :)
Anthony Lee
Du học Úc 1
Looks cool! I’ll actually gonna recommend it to my local artisan coffee hose!
Anthony Lee
@duhocuc1 sweet, or should I say “perfectly bitter sweet”