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The early community on this platform reminds me a lot of the early community of Google+ ... vibrant, intelligent conversation, with lots of clever humour. UI is simple in a pleasing way. Here's hoping October will fare better that G+ in the long run 😄
Maker
Thank you ! Let's make it a thriving community!
Is this based on the blockchain?
Maker
Not yet. We're focusing on getting the model right first. Once the economics solidify, we'll move increasingly to the blockchain over time. we'll probably have the tokens themselves as an ERC-20 token before anything else. but that requires sensible economic policy first.
Tried to sign up with Facebook and got this error: "URL Blocked: This redirect failed because the redirect URI is not whitelisted in the app’s Client OAuth Settings. Make sure Client and Web OAuth Login are on and add all your app domains as Valid OAuth Redirect URIs." Oops.
Maker
Whoops! Thanks for checking us out. Was this on web/mobile web or on iPhone? Will try to get this sorted asap!
I believe this was on Safari on iOS... but wouldn't the redirect URL be universal?
Maker
fixed now! (might have to explicitly reload the page with the FB login button)
This is an awesome idea when i think of the most popular whistle blowers around the world. You could post things anonymously and also be famous in the social circle. Good job team. Loved it. Will try to use often. 👏 🎉
Maker
Thank you . It's important to stress that our security is designed to protect normal people posting secrets, not to protect whistleblowers from nation states. We will keep improving our security and have a roadmap with lots of important security milestones, but whistleblower protection is very hard and complicated and legally fraught, so we don't think we're currently a good match for that.
i agree. It more complicated. But would you put it out to the people so that they know the platform shall not be used for such cases. How would you explicitly stop these wistleblowers if they wished to use ?. I definitely feel this powers people to maintain the anonymity when they wish for. Kuddos to that.!
Pros: Very interesting product, seems like it has a lot of potential. Cons: None so far. It's a young product, so I'm sure there are bugs and it's growing, so engagement should grow for anyone willing to put in the work now
Maker
Thank you Charles! Let me know if you have ideas for how we can make it even better! We're super thrilled that people like it so much!
Where can I find information about your company? What about privacy? You mention "security researchers", do you support end-to-end encryption? Are you funded by VC? Any plans to make your app funded by your own users? EDIT: I just realized it's more focused on public conversation, so encryption is probably not as relevant, are all posts/conversations public? In which way did security researchers contribute to the project?
Maker
I have a computer security background (specializing on exploit design and banking security), so I know from experience how hard of a problem the security of our platform is. We have hardened security on the platform, but there are ways in which we can still improve. Security isn't a feature that's ever done, so this will be an ongoing process that never stops for us. Our most important data is the identity of our anonymous posters, and we're protecting these identities as securely as we can. We will automatically unlink identities from posts after a few months, so that after this period we won't be able to recover the identities ourselves anymore. It's important to point out here that we are not good for whistleblowers: We have to comply with law enforcement subpoenas, and we'll know people's anonymous identities for up to a year and have to hand those over if our lawyers can't fight the subpoenas off. We're VC and angel funded and we will continue to require money to sustain ourselves until we get our economy working. I do think there will be potential for the users to own part of October, and we have negotiated a lot of control with our investors to be able to do things like that in the future. Thanks for giving us a try! Your feedback is super welcome
on Android there's no way to post anything, only way is via desktop which makes it pretty much useless for serious use on Android 😞
Maker
you can comment from mobile Web, just not post top-level posts yet. We'll make that happen soon!
A well designed and a new social network? Count me in! But no Android app? 😞
Maker
You can use the mobile web app in the meanwhile! We will bring an Android App as soon as we have hired the right people to build it!
Very interesting, and goodness I hope you can save us all. 😉 So what's the revenue model here? What's the product? Cuz if it's me, I fear a repeat of futures past.
Maker
We're building an attention economy where coins flow between content producers, hunters, curators, moderators and admins, and consumers, and we'll take a cut of that. It's an alternate model to advertising.

October.app is a breath of fresh air. This is where the movers and shakers meet to get things done.

DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with october.app.

Pros:

Smart design that should ensure a higher level of quality than other social networks.

Cons:

What, are you trying to be funny? ;)

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