Hi HN! We’re Alex & Dan, two solo founders building (https://www.riff.page) – a minimalist space for sharing lists, notes, and ideas. It’s like a stripped-down Notion, focused on simplicity and sharing. You can create bite-sized posts, structured lists, or even entire lightweight sites by linking riffs together. Some ways we’re using it: - Shareable lists like “Books that changed my life” or “Best restaurants in LA” - Micro-blogs (just make an unordered riff) - Clean, client-facing docs (e.g. documentation for an internal tool, or a plaintext proposal) - Personal portfolios (by linking more than one riff together) We’re keeping it intentionally basic for now. We want to learn how you might actually want to use something like this before we worry about making it mobile-friendly or build any more features. What makes it different: - No feeds, no follows, no algorithmic noise - Emphasis on clean, public, meaningful snippets and lists. - Feels like “social by default” without feeling like social media What we’d love from HN: We’re evaluating two paths: 1. Double down on lists + micro-posts, or 2. Pivot towards “beautiful, shareable docs” – think an alternative to Google Docs in circumstances where it feels unprofessional to send a Google Doc, but a static PDF won’t do. Would love your feedback, ideas, and use cases. Thanks for taking a look! |