One attack vector here might be trolls creating large number of accounts or manipulating the algorithm to share suicidal messages....I've seen far worse, the internet in all purposes does a lot of good but it's also emboldened incels
I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives.
My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.
I think this is pretty cool and thanks for making it. I bus commute 2.5 hours per work day and my job is 98% alone time, so it will be cool to see what other people in this boat do with that time.
Maybe it's all the HN posts about loneliness like another person noted, but does anyone else have a job like this? I'm really curious to hear about any long-term experiences with significant alone time. Seems like 100% remote folks might deal with this level of aloneness too. I'm realizing after a year that all the alone time really weighs on my psyche if I don't organize it somehow, so I've got five journals that I carry every day just to organize my thoughts. Curious what systems and strategies others have for structuring alone time.
This makes me think of grouphug.us (now gone) which was a pretty neat concept and was reborn/reinvented a couple of different times before the author finally took it down.
Overall, grouphug was a really cool site with a lot of neat statements.
I feel like the way sharesolo is designed helps in promoting a variety of different posts, with the photos/instagram feel behind it. Promoting it during the holidays will also have an interesting dynamic. I think it will be interesting to watch and see what people post.
Although there are some implementation aspects I don't like, I really do like the concept and the layout.
sidenote: For some reason it asks Firefox mobile for microphone access, but I was able to post something by using the web panels in Vivaldi desktop.
Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole.
> Maybe, although generally when you fill a room with sick people, they don’t make each other well. Group therapy can work, but it takes the guidance of people not currently looking up from a hole.
Being alone is not a sickness. The site, when viewed on mobile even without an app, shows the first entry as someone who climbed a mountain when alone. Another learned about the three poisons, and yet a third chose to read a series of books.
The words "loneliness and aloneness" don't mean what you think. Read the comment to which you replied and which was written by the author of the app, "and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad."
> My experience with nitpicking and semantic parsing on this site says otherwise, and you’re certainly another brick in that wall.
There was no nitpicking or cherry picking. The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness. I pointed out that being alone is not a sickness. I supported this with three healthy comments from the very first page of the site.
Instead of actually discussing, you have twice turned to personal attacks.
“Thanks for the feedback.
I created this project because I know many people who struggled with loneliness at times in their lives.
My hope is that by sharing this experience we’ll feel a sense of connection when we’re alone, and find more acceptance of ourselves and our aloneness, however happy, peaceful, or sad.”
You said...
The entirety of your comment related to how being alone is a sickness.
Your selective reading is actually impressive in its way, and seems either deliberate or deluded.
Edit: Ah downvotes, the currency of the struck nerve.
Your comment was correctly downvoted because it broke the site guidelines. You've been doing this a ton. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban your account, even though we appreciate fine submissions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001776. Please take the principles of this site to heart and clean up your act if you want to keep commenting here.
I used an early prototype of this card and the experience is awesome. Super simple, it just works. App is a nice companion when you want to see the transactions you've made. Congrats to the team on the launch!
Thanks! That's kind of you to offer, will keep that in mind.
Initial users are friends and some nice people from /r/introvert on reddit.
Lonenote was inspired by PostSecret, a project I volunteer for. Lonenote seemed like a good idea at the time but ended up being a bad merging of two products, a niche handwriting app and the alone sharing app I really wanted to build, which is now Solo. I thought the novelty handwriting feature was necessary to bring attention to the alone idea.
Anon was an attempt to follow the early anonymous app wave and a reaction to Whisper, where people share stock images that are disconnected from real life.
Solo is the app I wanted to make even if no one but a few people would use it. I switched to 'Solo' because I wanted the name to express both the positive and negative sides of the alone experience.
