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Stream — Twitter for introverts
Stream is a micro-journaling app designed to save your most important thoughts and ideas. Saving a thought on Stream is as easy as sending a message to yourself. You can easily share your thoughts from Stream to Twitter.
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Looks very simple and clean! Congrats on launching on Product Hunt! 2 questions for you. 1. What would you say is your pitch for someone already using a journalling platform like Day One Journal? 2. What made you decide to start with iOS?
@marcoafabrega Thanks! 1. I've tried Day one a few years ago when it first came out. Stream is way more simpler, and has way less friction which makes it perfect for all kinds of random uninhibited rambling thoughts. Day one feels like a proper journal and you need to think about things before typing in. Subtle differences. 2. I'm an iOS developer, a lot of my target users had iPhones, I can also do a lot of cool things with speech to text, computer Vision stuff locally on device rather than using an external API so it was a no brainer :)
@vd_thatte Something for introverts is always a good idea :) How about we publish an interview about Stream at StartupRadius? Ping me at paul@startupradius.com if interested!
I’ve been using it for a few weeks to add little notes that I revisit later
Pros:It’s great to be able to type thoughts out quickly with a UI that’s inviting to create
Cons:I’d like to be able to toggle the typing sound or have it disabled when my ringer is off
@hipcityreg @amrith It seems like people mainly use it for twitter drafts. A friend of mine who blogs said half of his ideas went through Stream which was very encouraging. I can also see people writing poetry/rap, feels like a great medium for that. I personally use it for new ideas, venting out, writing down new insights, etc.
Vidy is great and I'm sure he will continue to improve the app, as he has been doing already for the last month. WOOH
Pros:It's tough to find a good place to store random thoughts, which stream is great for.
Cons:I don't like that you can't shut off the typewriter noises-- it should only happen when the ringer is on.
fantastic clean product, can't wait to see how it grows. Easy to use and doesn't need any useless onboarding, WYSIWYG interface which just works.
I do most of my twittering on desktop, and that's where I think up tweets that shouldn't go live but I'd love to write them somewhere, so I'd be into having a desktop version.
I'm not a serious twitter user, so maybe you can do this on twitter, but I would really like the option to send some of my thoughts out as a message to a group of friends, then it would really be a twitter for introverts
Let me start by saying that I write private posts on my Facebook all the time, Except when I don't post at all. So when I saw this I thought to myself, hey, this maybe that next social network!
To my disappointment this just seems to be another note taking app. Lose my phone and all my "private" thoughts with Will it, at least, backup to my private cloud?
Perhaps the silver lining is that I'd download the app if it had a "central database" and publish option (extendable to Twitter and other social networks I want to integrate). An in-app Facebook-like newsfeed is not a bad idea either, for those exceptional moments the introvert feels extroverted (Hey that sounds like a social network... for introverts).
Other than that I love the minimal UI and I seriously think this has potential. Keep going!
Pros:
- it can be whatever you want it to be (use tabs). I created tabs based on topics I usually think about
- find myself writing down thoughts more often since the design allows micro-actions
- incredible to see thoughts develop over time about a topic when reading through the history
- it's possible to hide tabs, I use that feature when I feel I'm done with a topic
Cons:
- this will end up being a feature request/tweak list, I'll pass on that.
Give this app a shot, you'll love how much more productive it enables you to be! If you don't love it, I'm sure the coffee/beer is on Vidy!
@vd_thatte awesome job. I love the typewriter feel and overall authentic writer vibe it provides. Would suggest adding more skeuomorphic design elements. I imagined I was in Red Dead Redemption while writing my ideas 👌🏽
Stream is lit I’ve been putting hidden smooves inside steam to cloud feature to send later. Gonna share it at our launch party 🤜🏽
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