Hey HN, I wanted to throw my hat into the ring for an alternative to Reddit. Earlier this year, I bootstrapped and soft launched a reddit-like platform that incorporates some of the features I liked from twitter.
How Hawker.social works:
1. Your individual account also has it’s own feed (twitter basically)
2. You can create a community like reddit
3. You can create a private room within your community and charge a recurring or one time membership fee.
The site is www.hawker.social if you want to check it out. Welcoming all feedback and suggestions.
by Fyrezerk on 6/14/23, 12:55 PM
Happy to check it out, but I'll say at first glance you need your landing page to include actual content. The barrier to entry is immediately too high if I can't go straight to the home page and start browsing posts. You'll lose out on a huge amount of traffic who get disinterested and close the tab, and the network effect is all about retaining all the traffic you can.
by thanushyasraj on 6/14/23, 1:07 PM
Just checked your website. I feel it's a great starting point for a freelancer like me who don't want to invest much in a community building tool early on by paying a hugh upfront fee not knowing if my followers will ever become paid members. I used to have my followers on a slack channel but I was hesitant to charge members a fee to get my most useful advices and strategies simply because I had to collect payments via PayPal and add them manually to these exclusive channels separately all by myself. So I always parked that idea. Now that I have discovered a platform like this. I will confidently give it a try. Thanks for letting us know. Best of luck :)
by silverz2023 on 6/14/23, 12:43 PM
hawker.social looks stunning
i like how it combines features from other social media platforms and even other features that are not built into other social media platforms
by AidarU on 6/14/23, 12:51 PM
Reserved some nice community permalinks. Thanks!
by lijoe408 on 6/14/23, 8:47 PM
Looks promising. Will check it out.