Show HN: Graph – turn your ChatGPT into AI-sorted RSS feeds
graph.cxha I went into a rabbit hole on IMF yesterday, having not known a lot about it going in. thanks for checking this out!
1. The visual design of the app feels largely different from other apps that I use, which is largely good. It's evoking an early internet aesthetic. To what degree were early social communities like MySpace an inspiration? 2. The other side of breaking from more modern UX patterns is that users might stumble or get slowed down. I had a harder time figuring out the UX of the chat inbox, likely because I was bringing iMessage style mental models to more of an AIM UX. 3. Onboarding of inputting ChatGPT derived preferences to quickly personalized was really smart and can imagine this could be the start of a new way to shortcut otherwise tedious onboarding preference collection 4. Did you consider making this an iOS app? I almost only read HN on my phone these days and would likely appreciate these more niche articles tailored towards learning compared to a standard news digest
1. The UI (for now at least) is definitely inspired by olds. Some have called it MySpace x StumbleUpon. 2. Agree going retro future has its pros and cons tho and the point about chat UI path dependency. We were in fact leaning more AIM/MSN Messenger w that, and are hoping it clicks more when we roll out Graph chat soon. 3. Glad the onboarding 0 - 100 clicked. Hope that saves time for folks. Fun fact is I wanted to build something like this years ago, but didn't see ppl having the time to hand type dozens, much less, 100 key interests or media likes. 4. For sure would love to make this a native mobile app. It's a hack but I've gotten far in using the iOS shortcut UX to make a shortcut app of it on my phone. Maybe this can be a holdover for some before we get opt-in email digests live.
Thanks for the great questions and checking it out!