Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser

Show HN: Hvr, a Social Browser(hvr.world)

9 points by andrewmatte 5 years ago | 7 comments

Post directly on a page for the rest of the community to see. Share privately or publicly, reply, like, mention your friends, hashstag your interests.

Mobile app built in Flutter, backend with python+postgres+redis

Your public posts get showcased on a board like this: https://prod.hvr.world/profile?referrerId=58&u=Andreud&inten...

binarynate 5 years ago |

What's the business model for this product? Although I like the idea of social browsing, I'm extremely hesitant to give a closed-source product full access to my browsing history out of fear that my data will be sold or handled carelessly.

andrewmatte 5 years ago | |

Eventually ads but, as the head of tech of this venture, we have no plans to sell browsing history. Also, we've taken care to never expose your email address. Deleting a post genuinely deletes the data from our database, unless the post has been reported as violating standards. What other privacy concerns would you like to see addressed?

mekster 5 years ago | |

The way Brave have been acting, I don't see there's any room for a random company to produce any browsers.

geoelectric 5 years ago |

Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon from back in the day.

andrewmatte 5 years ago | |

I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks.

geoelectric 5 years ago | | |

It's certainly not an insult, more of an everything old is new again type thing.

Universal commenting has always made a lot of sense to me. As applied to casual web-surfing, the concept reminds me of the logbooks I used to see hiking the Trail and whatnot. They get a little noisy after awhile would be my one comment.