October

Visual and pseudonymous social network.

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iOS•Web App•Twitter

Launch Team

Paul Stefan Bohm

October

Maker

Hey there Product Hunt! I’m one of the builders at October. Super excited to have you on! We’re a social network built by experienced economists, security researchers and mathematicians. Our goal is to create 1) a safe environment for good discussion, and 2) a place that increases in quality as more people join. Our name “October” comes from our approach to solving the “Eternal September Problem”, that is the problem of social networks getting worse as more people join. We’ll be addressing this issue as we grow by splitting channels (think subreddits) and reorganizing who follows who based on voting behavior. We’ve got pretty cool mathematical models for this. Till we’re big enough to face these issues we’re offering a very visual design language, a coin system to encourage good behavior, and pseudonymous posts to allow for honest discussion. Give it a try and Let me know if you have anymore questions or comments!

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6yr ago

Marshall Hayner

Crumbs App

@paulsbohm Fantastic app, it's a time for an alternative to Facebook and Twitter, excellent work Paul and October team! Can't wait to see what's next.

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6yr ago

360 Magnetic Solutions _

@paulsbohm Is privacy of users a concern for October? How do you secure user data? Are there plans to make the social network accessible from the desktop.

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6yr ago

a Pot for Pot

@paulsbohm Nice one Paul! Stoked to see what you have been working on. All I see are good things.

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6yr ago

racha ghamlouch

@paulsbohm any plans for the iOS plans to be available on international stores, it feels like an app that I would not be using often on desktop as I would on mobile

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6yr ago

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

I've been beta testing October for some months now. A lot of people are nervous about anonymous/pseudonymous social networks as abuse and harassment often become serious issues, but the underlying motivation of October (and others like it) are notable – to create a place where people can share their thoughts honestly without risk of losing their job or even worse, being put in prison in some areas of the world. @paulsbohm, once you hit massive scale, the above will be incredibly challenging. How are you planning to scale October while avoiding turning into another Secret?

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6yr ago

Paul Stefan Bohm

October

Maker

@rrhoover Hey! So glad to have you as an early user Ryan! I think there's a lot of room for playing with different social network dynamics still, including making it easier for people to play with identity. The big problem anonymous sites get is abuse, and the problem everyone deals with is groupthink. E.g. subreddits and speciality sites get more groupthink as they get bigger. We think the solution to both is figuring out who sees what. We're learning from the voting behavior of users, and can learn who should see what from that. This means that people who troll too much do see consequences. They might see other people who enjoy troll posts.. but their targets will not see them. This also helps with political polarization in that everyone sees content that they might not agree with (and thus expands their horizon), but not necessarily stuff that they are completely opposed to (which would just lead to super tribal highly polarized fights). So we think the key is in managing attention well and building an economy around it, that allows users to help us curate at scale.

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6yr ago

Elena Zhizhimontova

Looks pretty cool guys! Seems like a mix between Quora, Reddit and Instagram - very interesting!

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6yr ago

Paul Stefan Bohm

October

Maker

@zelena Thank you Elena. That's what we're going for. Why make Tweets 280 Characters, when pictures are a 1000 words? Even for deep intellectual conversations!

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6yr ago