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Show HN: We built a multiplayer ChatGPT experience(multiplayergpt.com)
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Show HN: Moot, run super-engaging meetings–without juggling a million tools(moot.app)
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Show HN: What do you think of our new multiplayer workspace?(trymoot.com)
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by jstrafy 5y ago
That's really interesting - do you use anything like Meetup.com or are you on any discord/slack servers? There is a cool app that I've been using called Lunchclub ( https://lunchclub.com/ ), it links you with a
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Have covered this question in a few replies but in short: anything you share on Circles is encrypted in transit with SSL/TLS and encrypted at rest on the server. We hold the keys, at least for now until we implement a better solution.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Hey cool! Media is encoded in base 64, encrypted in transit with SSL/TLS then encrypted at rest on our hosted servers. We're not using a CDN just a simple relational DB (but imagine at some point we will need to change that). For
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Haha, clear!
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Thanks, it's definitely a tough ask but I think the world will be better with these options (providing they succeed to such a level). Can relate to that, it was the same for me.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Definitely! The main reason was because we were building with the Ruby SDK and it didn't have bridging (future chat...) nor a direct E2EE solution included. In that, we had a bunch of business and product solutions we wanted to underst
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Thanks! Glad you appreciate them.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Me too! Thanks for the comment.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! Haven't heard of Movim before so I will check it out.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Thanks! It's a very valid question, the answer is that I don't think the market wants another FB (especially after today). In that, and from continually trying to scratch my own itch, we need to build something that works in an en
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Thanks, it's been a journey and appreciate the kind words! Matrix is great, as I mentioned in one the replies, we were also building with the Ruby SDK and decided against in the end. Will update the site to reflect this & your comm
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by jstrafy 5y ago
In terms of the ad concern, through our choices we have already made that inconvenient to do. At the moment we do hold the encryption keys, but as privacy seems to be a great concern (as we expected it to be) we will continue to push forwar
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by jstrafy 5y ago
We don't actively log or analyse that information, no.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Appreciate this! We really welcome the feedback & are happy to hear it, positive or negative.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Appreciate this, thanks! The points you've made here hit the nail on the head for taking the choices we have. Would love to chat about your current social usage and what you would expect from us in a way that you'd be happy to pay
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by jstrafy 5y ago
That's fair enough! We're definitely not trying to build for everyone and it's good you have solutions set for yourself. Our proposition is simply to have a place to share/broadcast to the different sets of people in you
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Hey, thanks for trying us out. And sorry about the bug(s)! Let me get some solutions and will push an update to the app store (also for Android).
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by jstrafy 5y ago
I would agree with your categories there. Circles is clearly in the second category & although it's early days our aim with the product is to build a great utility for your social life, rather than yet another media saturated app.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
That's a great point. Our baseline assumption has been that, by and large, people would not pay for a social networking function on its own. So in that we've been hesitant to talk about monetisation with future features.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Thanks! It's been a journey. Signal has definitely been a source of practice here. How would you imagine we do this comparison, on the landing page?
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Definitely get where you're coming from here - have noted.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Noted!
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Yes. Well that's true if there is little content shared and you are considering it from the perspective of your whole friends list. Generally people are selecting who they want to share to, and sharing things they otherwise wouldn&#x27
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by jstrafy 5y ago
I'm also very interested in open protocols, like Matrix and DeSo. However I disagree that everything has to turn into a media behemoth like Facebook. You make what you measure.
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Well if we can't find monetisation that's a problem. I think we're beyond 2010 though, and people are much more open to paying for signal based information as shown by Substack, Twitter Blue, Discord Nitro, Bumble and other s
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by jstrafy 5y ago
Ha. You've made a point there. Still waiting to be disproved in US/EU... Although WeChat is a great app and it's done insanely great (however they have added some weird TikTok like features recently).
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by jstrafy 5y ago
That's a solid point and hence why we've been reluctant to set out a future monetisation strategy. However... In terms of monetising utility, Beeper/Texts.com seem to be getting a lot of attention, where they charge 10$ a mon

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