Hey Product Hunt! This is my latest social experiment. It's a bit of a love letter to the early days of social media when it felt like we were interacting with a community of people instead of news organizations, marketers, hustlers, and world leaders. It won't ever rival the big networks. You won't find any celebrities on here. Shoot, it may never have more than a few dozen users. And maybe that's what makes it great :) Here's the gist: What if when you scrolled through your social media feed, you saw only your friends posting their thoughts? No memes or reels. No more seeing ten thousand links to the same news story everyone is angry about today. No rage RTs spreading something toxic that someone said. And most importantly, no AI-driven algorithm that decides what you do and don't see. Smplr is an experiment in how social media might look without growth hackers trying to get you addicted by outraging you or manipulating you. In Smplr, you type words into a little box and post them for your followers to see. That's it. You can't add a clickable link to promote anything. You can't share some video that you stole from another network. Just words. And hey, you can even edit your posts afterwards (it really wasn't a difficult feature to add). The best part? Groups. Make a group to discuss a new movie, chat with only your close friends, anything you like! You can create public groups anyone can join, or private groups that can only be joined with an invite. It's up to you! Other cool features: • Express yourself by adding an emoji mood to any post • No more threads with 43 posts. Add a 1,000 character rant to follow any post • Delete any reply to one of your posts from any user • Easily block users • Vertical profile pictures for better selfies (circles are so over) smplr is invite-only but I opened the doors to let anyone join today. Join before I lock the doors again!

smplr

A words-only social network

A words-only social network