Not a startup, what do you think of the craft & techniques?

You'd be better off (1) posting this as a Show HN with a title that says what the project is, and (2) adding a first comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a much better direction.

If you do this, email hn@ycombinator.com and we might be able to help out a bit.

What I think is your headline gave so little information that, though I did click, I almost immediately clicked away because, well, you didn’t guide me in any meaningful way to what “craft and techniques” might be interesting to news.yc readers.

I experienced it as pretty close to click-bait overall.

I spent a little while reading, but I still have absolutely no idea what this is.

> At the end of the day, cryptography applied to rebuilding JWT+JWS for the people, distributed messaging over WebSocket and WebRTC, sharing abstracted Git refs, a few URL tricks & QR codes for link sharing. >Make it easy to integrate your platform and to your platform. Think and share components over entire apps, build around local state and synchronization. Use the standard web & GraphQL. >To think silo = identity -> code + state & build distributed systems as pools of state machines behind queues,

I'm at least passingly familiar with all those things (except JWS), but I still can't connect the dots. What do Git refs have to do with websockets?

What does "Think and share components over entire apps" even mean?

This reads a little bit like someone got high, had some major epiphanies, and is trying to communicate them with the world with a lot of hand-waving.

Hopefully there's some good ideas under there, they need much more refining and distilling before announcing them in this fashion though.

Three thoughts:

- I'm not really sure what you're proposing? You really need pictures / mockups. Maybe even 15-second animations that show the flows that are in your imagination?

- IMO, the big problem with social networks is how they spread misinformation. I personally believe that the "credibility" problem is more important than trying to build a decentralized Facebook.

- Don't let your imagination run away!

BTW, as someone else mentioned, this really should be a "Show HN."

I didn't quickly understand what this was showing me so clicked off. I have a short attention span! The title should be more informative, have a shorter landing page, and make it obvious why I should read it :)

This should probably be a ”Show HN” :)

The scrolling light effect makes my head hurt.

That alpha-blend or whatever happens as you scroll is incredibly obnoxious. I nearly clicked away and ignored this because it's so awful.

The grammar of the page suggests an asocial author with limited social skills, and perhaps a misunderstanding of what the objective of a landing page is for.

""" We only earn real customer money, at any cost. Free or $10/year, later adjusted with you to follow our expenses. """

It boggles my mind that you'd consider writing this, in this manner, to try and attract interest. It sounds clunky, complicated, awkward, mechanical; there's really not enough adjectives to capture this page's problems.

Then you have a picture of code (you've automatically disqualified yourself far before now, but an image of code instead of blocks will always lose my interest, personally)

To summarize, this is horrendous, and you can do better.

The first three seconds of this webpage are losing 99% of your prospects. Not that your page even explains what your product is anyways, but for clarity's sake:

Famous image in the background, that's distracting, is this an art project?

"TAKING THEM SOON" What does that mean? It sounds vaguely threatening, or maybe the author is just illiterate.

Scrolling down beyond that results in a flashbang exploding before my face, so I'd leave.

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