Feels very similar to Digital Gardens - something I've been doing to hit all the same points! (Shameless plug to mine as an example https://launchbowl.com)
This product does provide a bit more of a structured approach without any of the self-hosting/coding difficulty which I think would have a wider market appeal.
Ha! Very cool! I did not know about the community/idea of Digital Gardens! From my quick glance, it seems close to a lot of my thoughts.
I like what you have done with Launchbowl! The part about linking multiple posts together is something I swear by for personal writing & note-taking on Anytype. Graph is a very efficient way to process a lot of connected information!
Thank you! Yes, Jottings was built for anyone, even with no tech experience, to set up and have a site where they may post their thoughts to the world.
Given you are already offering the product for free it would be cool to have a self hosted option.
Typically I'm not the one to suggest this on hobby projects being made into a product bc you gotta make money somehow to support this and I respect that to some appreciable degree.
I hear you. I actually am quite open to making Jottings self-host-able. I might want to slice the multi-tenant layer out before I do that, only because that is complicated and not needed for someone to host and manage multiple sites, and is the part that primarily makes this a product. I'll give it a think.
I also hear you about the making money part, and I largely agree.
It's always nice to see products that cater to the best users can be instead of the worst.
Personally, AI for writing is in the same corner as the other pathologies you've listed (popularity counts etc), so it's not for me. But some folks will see that differently.
I hear you, and I share a big part of that opinion on AI writing. From the feedback I got from some folks before, it seemed to be something many were interested in, which is why I designed it to be very aid-like, and less to generate content fully from scratch and post automatically: essentially spamming.
I am not very sold on the AI tool and am very open to removing it with more such opinions!
Thank you very much!
Yeah, I agree. In fact, even Jottings started as something I built for my own use as a stand-alone site that I used to host. Made it into a production for others to use only after someone of my friends asked me for a similar site. I used to feed my post (or Jots) data to my build system through a json file that I updated to add new jots.
I hope that the appeal is real for a good bunch of folks.
Haha! You gave me a chuckle! And a totally fair yell! :)
Valid CS philosophical musings aside, may be I should be a bit more specific to something like "personalized feed ranking".
This product does provide a bit more of a structured approach without any of the self-hosting/coding difficulty which I think would have a wider market appeal.
Thank you! Yes, Jottings was built for anyone, even with no tech experience, to set up and have a site where they may post their thoughts to the world.
Typically I'm not the one to suggest this on hobby projects being made into a product bc you gotta make money somehow to support this and I respect that to some appreciable degree.
I also hear you about the making money part, and I largely agree.
It’s already fairly antisocial by design, but if you disable fetching replies it can be a lightweight standalone microblog.
Demo: https://honk.tedunangst.com/
Personally, AI for writing is in the same corner as the other pathologies you've listed (popularity counts etc), so it's not for me. But some folks will see that differently.
I hear you, and I share a big part of that opinion on AI writing. From the feedback I got from some folks before, it seemed to be something many were interested in, which is why I designed it to be very aid-like, and less to generate content fully from scratch and post automatically: essentially spamming.
I am not very sold on the AI tool and am very open to removing it with more such opinions!
Personally this kind of thing is just always gonna be self hosted or local only, but I see the appeal for folks who don't have that option
Brief off-topic greybeard cloud yell: I hate that we've all adopted the colloquial use of "algorithm".
Although it's interesting to imagine whether software is even possible with "no algorithm" :)
I hope that the appeal is real for a good bunch of folks.
Haha! You gave me a chuckle! And a totally fair yell! :) Valid CS philosophical musings aside, may be I should be a bit more specific to something like "personalized feed ranking".