Congrats on the launch @davidbyttow ! 😄 can you talk about the evolution from secret and what inspired you to go this direction with bold, out of all the things you could have built?
@eriktorenberg Thanks Erik! The inspiration for this was pretty straightforward: It's the intersection of the fact that we built some cool technology paired with a beautiful design (for companies) and that I believe in safe spaces to publish ones thoughts. I just want to bring this tech to everyone in the most simple way possible, and go from there.
The biggest difference with IO versus something like Medium/Secret/etc is that there is no network by design (currently). It's up to the author to share however they see fit.
That said, this is only step one of many steps that we intend to take as this particular project was started less than two weeks ago. :-)
I love the /random link :) to the point that i wrote my first ever chrome extension to add it as a button to chrome https://bold.io/my-first-ever-ch...
This is so beautiful. I just wonder why Twitter themselves haven't already built something similar. Seems like it would solve the tweet storm problem. Regardless, great work.
I love the focus on the words being written, and not the person that is writing them. Much needed on the internets. Very interesting use of selective anonymity being able to switch the Twitter account on and off.
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Hey @davidbyttow, I really love the interface & ambience add on - works great with my ADD :) 💯
What I could not really understand is the need / purpose for anonymous publishing.
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Terrific writing experience. Could you provide some hints at where this is heading though? I like the anonymity option, but I also like the interface enough to want to explore using it as an actual blog—any plans to facilitate that? Post archives, custom URLs, etc.? Nothing too crazy, just a bit of extra structure around identity to make it possible, kind of like Svbtle did.
@mostlymarius I think the obvious first step for us was to take something that we built for companies, and demonstrate that it is viable for the simplest use case: saying whatever you want freely.
There are a lot of possibilities for the future. I like your ideas! I'd like to think we're focused on providing a tool to freely express and publish on IO. Then with CO focusing on standing out and understanding the voice within your organization.
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Brilliant concept and execution, congratulations; deeply impressed with the UX, UI and possibilities of such a simple but elegant tool. Thank you.
Can't help but fall in love with minimal things that work beautifully.
I must say this is indeed, *Bold*!
@davidbyttow thanks for making it 🙌🏼
Can't wait to check out https://bold.co as well, looks very interesting.
See you on Slack 😸
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Congrats! I like the minimal interface :) The software engineer in me is wondering what is it built on/with? @davidbyttow Will there be any way to browse articles or is that the point of the platform?
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