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We accidentally recreated old Facebook

https://amrshawky.com/posts/we-accidentally-recreated-fb/
23•amr_shawky•2d ago

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drcongo•1h ago
> You don’t really remember the exact month something happened, but you always remember who was there.

This is such a weird premise, I can already search photos by people on my phone or Mac, but that also lets me find photos without people in.

amr_shawky•42m ago
Sure, but it doesn't always work and isn't very organized. My point is that you already organized all of those photos every time you shared them. So why not capitalize on it for future photos without additional effort?

The other thing is that it isn't straightforward to pass on existing photos to children. I inherited boxes of photo albums and VHS tapes from my childhood, but it's a lot more complicated to share a whole bunch of memories with future generations; adding a placeholder to a bunch of albums that someone else can inherit later just makes more sense to me.

smokedetector1•43m ago
Not trying to be a hater, but I'm not sure if I would download an app just for this, and I'm almost 100% sure my non-tech friends and family wouldn't.

Is there a way to make this an add-on to another product that people are already on? Or a site that pulls data from another product?

amr_shawky•39m ago
Which part? The photos or the feed?
throwway120385•25m ago
Is your pricing enough for the service to make money without requiring VC funding? And are you going to be able to maintain business focus on your core use cases throughout the next 5-10 years? I think it's a tough sell for me and my friends to use something like old Facebook when we know the rest of that story.
amr_shawky•8m ago
I think so, the feed doesn't really cost much and our infra isn't on AWS. The main focus is the photo storage and as long as that makes enough to cover costs long-term I'm happy keeping it the way it is. There isn't really a point trying to compete with modern Facebook.
dudu24•18m ago
"we realized that this feels a lot like old FB - no ads, no ‘discover’, no algorithms. Just posts from people you know."

holy chatgpt

amr_shawky•3m ago
Ouch, I wrote this myself, but I am new to blogging so point taken.
nancyminusone•11m ago
>screenshot with Minon profile pic

My god, they really did recreate Facebook

brenschluss•9m ago
Ah, see, you didn’t recreate it just because of the interface; you recreated because it’s currently a high-trust social environment, because your friends and family are using it, because they know who you are. Old Facebook was high-trust because we all were naive and trusting.

Perhaps the question is how to continue to create high-trust environments from a social perspective, not an interface perspective.

amr_shawky•4m ago
I think the 'sending posts directly to people' which mimics the way memes are sent on instagram helps a lot with this. If I know exactly who the audience is for what I'm sending it definitely makes it more comfortable.
mrhottakes•7m ago
Old Facebook worked out great, so this should be a positive force for good as well.

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