I've made websites and web apps for my whole life and making them isn't the hard part for me. The biggest roadblock especially today (unlike in the early 2000s) is getting people to even try out my creations.For instance, I coded a Discord alternative from scratch. I never use AI, pre-made building blocks or any modern crap, I do everything by hand. My hobby is making barebones replicas of the social media services people use but without algorithms and dopamine crap. Just the functionality and the style. That's what I want, but nobody else seems to want that. It's heartbreaking when even my own friends are like>hnnnggh I really don't wanna make an account even though it takes 5 seconds>fuuuuck I dont wanna start using any new service>I will literally not budge from Discord never ever everI still struggle to understand how the human brain works. Every day I watch people spend 12 hours doing absolutely fuck all on social media but then they say making an account on my site takes too much time. These same people will give out their bank card info and passport to Discord just to keep using it. They're willing to pay for Nitro or look at full screen ads every two days. They're fine with their data being stolen and having zero privacy whatsoever. Most of all, they're fine with letting corpo take hold of our world and our way of life like unelected politicians.I used to ask people for advice on how to get my projects off the ground. I no longer do. People themselves don't understand how their brain works so it's pointless. They will tell me to do x, then they will use sites that do y. Help me understand. Why is it that I see something but nobody else sees the same thing. People will always tell me I'm just being autistic / an asshole or whatever, but I literally just want a world where websites aren't billion dollar dopamine machines where I'm the product.
ok share it thenthere's a bunch of discord clones and they mostly suckyou do have the bot api set up right?
>>108653541>you do have the bot api set up right?No. All you can do is send text and images. Discord has way too many features that I could just copy all of them given that I write vanilla PHP and JS.
>>108653522So where is your discord alternative?
I hope I'm wrong, but I often feel that everything has been done already. All markets are saturated. Big tech already offers every possible thing better than you ever could.There's no point in doing anything. We're just brainless goy cattle and our job is to look at screens and watch ads.Even making your own company is a fucking nightmare these days, no matter what field.I feel like the anti-corpo tech field could be a real thing, but people themselves don't really want it to be a real thing.For instance, if OP's fakecord doesn't have voice chat, most people will drop it instantly just because Discord is free and does offer that functionality.We're so used to getting everything for free that we don't want to downgrade our quality of life back to txt messages and emails.I would totally do that because I want screens to stop dominating my life, but most people seem to be fine with a 12-hour screen time.
Meet at the middle of the road? Make a public channel where you can post pseudo-anonymously so people can try and see what it's like
>>108653681I would feel weird coding something like that just because people are too lazy to spend 5 seconds making an account.All you have to do is type in a username and a password. That's it. I'm not even asking for their email address.But I'll think about it.
>>108653522Are you the harmony anon?
>>108653691>I'm not even asking for their email address.Ah I missed that, yeah well I guess people wait for bandwagon effect. When even huge companies make early access games, "agile" apps always changing not everyone wants to the sole free betatesters, especially for social media feels lonely, see every 4chan/reddit clone attempt out thereOn the account thing, I never made a facebook account because after a while it account walls you. I did however browse twitter a bunch because it wasn't account walled like now, so even if I never made an account I know what it's like
>>108653598plz post the repo, we can share tips since I'm working on something similar. do you have an account system yet?
>>108653522Brother, it's called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effectNobody's going to use your platform unless there's a critical mass of people already using it. Peter Thiel wrote an interesting anecdote about how to overcome this, however. You know how Mark Zuckerberg created facebook only for people in his university first? Then it expanded to other universities. Then it expanded to the general public.That's what you have to do. You need to make your shit a private club until you have enough users to justify expanding. Unfortunately, that requires a lot of friends or at least acquaintances, which you probably don't have.So, honestly, my best advice for you is to just stick to making web utilities. Don't try to create a community. Or work on becoming some faggot ass e-celeb first so that you can create a community of your own.
>>108653522I'll try it out.
>why cant i just do this incredibly hard thing that only 10-12 companies on earth have managed to accomplish
>>108653691Discord got big partly because it allowed what people are suggesting here, it used to just let you type a username and join a server with zero friction
>>108653833>bandwagon effect>network effectIs there something wrong with me when I don't have that in my psychology?I often hang out in chatrooms all by myself waiting for maybe 1 person to drop in.I don't mind browsing boards with 10-200 users.Nobody else seems to be wired this way. Everyone else goes where the biggest mass of people is, like being pulled there by a magnet.I don't get that feeling, and I believe it's a flaw. I'm convinced that a larger userbase doesn't make the experience any better. It's probably the opposite. I mean, you're never gonna make 8 billion friends anyway.
>>108654103https://aava.dy.fi
>>108654515Nothing wrong with that, it's just very unusual. Most people use social platforms to, well, socialize. Having to wait potentially hours to get a response to something you post and with minimal variety in response because of a lack of users tends to be demoralizing for most people.
>>108654592>Most people use social platforms to, well, socializeI unironically go outdoors for that. I don't think you should use some digital jew machine to connect with your own species, anon. Cut the middle man. It was never necessary.
>>108654752Yeah okay, good luck getting rich off of your social media platform.
>>108653522You're just repeatedly approaching the wrong audience. Go to where people try each others websites, like neocities and shit. Go connect with those people. Just like any niche, you're gonna have to stomach some cringe, but it'll probably be worth it if you're craving kindred spirits. I just mostly talk to coworkers, knowing no one gives a fuck about any of the tech shit I yap about. Not a single person has said more than "oh wow that's bullshit" to the array of dystopian shit I am describing about privacy and ownership.I am trying to focus on saving myself and showing the way, rather than attempting to coax anyone into anything anymore. Why bother helping people addicted to touching active saws?Share you work here anon, though I understand why you wouldn't. Don't need some asshole attacking you, right?
>>108653522>didn't use AIWhy would anyone care if you used your bare hands instead of a shovel?
>>108655033I care
>>108655024>Don't need some asshole attacking you, right?Pussy needs thicker skin or he'll never get anywhere.
>>108654524Do you have a git repository or does "open source" mean I can inspect-element the webpages?
>>108653522>For instance, I coded a Discord alternative from scratch.>I still struggle to understand how the human brain worksidiot. look up the network effect.
>>108654524Do GIFs not work?
