Show HN: Oyie – A micro social app to stay in sync with your friends

[vasanthv]

https://oyie.io

Oyie is a micro social app to stay in sync with your friends by sharing very short status updates or web links as push notifications.

[mock-possum]

Man this seems like exactly the sort of thing I’d be into… if my family and friends would use it too.

The biggest problem with social apps is getting buy-in from everybody else. Everyone needs to sign up for a new account, install a new app, pay attention to a new thing, think in a new paradigm. And since I’m the one who suggests it, I’m the one that plays support when they inevitably lose their password, or can’t figure out how to shorten links to share, can’t figure out how to host images or link to specific content or specific places in content…

Which is why everybody still begrudgingly uses Facebook I suppose.

[pizzafeelsright → mock-possum]

I am hoping to build a web only feed for my small groups. The login will use existing social media login using auth0.

The domain won't be published and does not allow registration. Text and photos only. No notifications yet.

[rhim]

How is this different to a group chat in any messenger?

[XCSme → rhim]

True, this seems like one of those ideas that sounds so good, until you realize that it already exists, it's used by everyone, just under a different name.

[garyrob → rhim]

That was my immediate question too.

[coffeedan]

I get an error trying to enable notifications (on iPhone safari):

undefined is not an object (evaluating 'swReg.pushManager.subscribe')

[aendruk]

What is Oyie? → Page not found

[vasanthv → aendruk]

Should be fixed now. Just refresh it once so that the new script is loaded.

[HALtheWise → aendruk]

https://oyie.io/about.html

The .html is missing from the links. I agree that it's an embarrassing bug.

[aendruk → HALtheWise]

Actually requesting /about works fine too. There’s just something scripted trying to reimplement a web browser in a web browser and of course failing.

[evbogue]

Great minimalist design choices here.

I felt myself longing for profile photos, but also I am willing for them to be left out.

[stefanvdw1]

Looks fun! And always nice to be able to grab the handle you want when you are one of the first to join

[aerzen]

Nice. Can this be self hosted?

[vasanthv → aerzen]

Oyie is not open-source now. Contact me if you are interested. You can find my email in the site.

[MerelyMortal]

Nice and simple UI, thank you.

How can we get people to switch from services like X/Twitter or other chat apps to something like this though?

[rapnie → MerelyMortal]

One way to that is by becoming part of the Fediverse where many people are already making that switch and network effects are coming into play more and more. Oyie on its own has a long way to go as a proprietary social media that stands on its own. There are tons of such products and mostly we never hear of them. If you manage to get a group of friends to use it, it is fine though.

[MerelyMortal → rapnie]

I feel like it needs to be a phone app for my friends to use it.

[ReverieFish]

Isn't this conceptually similar to twtxt?

[vpol]

Looks cool, tried to register. Received email verification link, but when I click it - I get:

> Invalid email verification code

[luxpir]

Interesting, thanks. Just heard of t2.social and looked at bluesky yesterday. Glad competition continuing.

[henry_pulver]

All the positive comments seem fake

[rco8786]

Just setting up my oyie

[eu]

me gusta. what’s the tech behind this?

[habibur]

This market is currently dominated by IM group chats.

In fact, most of the old social media has now moved over to chat groups.

[lakomen]

I never get the obsession with micro blogging.

It's useless. An exercise.

I don't get the praise in the comments. When I'm bored, that's the kind of simple and easy project I'd write. Or when testing a new framework or database etc.

To each their own I guess. Not trying to be mean.

[quickthrower2 → lakomen]

Twitter/X gets hate but it can be a useful way to interact sometimes. Sort of like a firewall to prevent the need of giving out your email address.

[andrewstuart]

Whatsapp message groups seem to be the new family facebook.