Hi everyone,

I am the indie developer behind SoraSNS (a Fediverse and Bluesky client featured by Tech Crunch twice).

I just started working on a modern and futuristic styled Lemmy client. It will have a modern UI and equal features as the alien blue app.

Some features I am planning include:

  • all features like alien blue app (you know which app I am referring to)
  • a better notification interface so you can see the thread the message belongs to
  • auto translation feature
  • bookmark folders
  • folders to organized your subscribed communities
  • a discovery feed for most popular posts from your subscribed communities and followed persons
  • watch a post and receive notifications about new comments
  • scroll horizontally to switch to previous or next post in the list

The image I attached is obviously the build 0. The target release date is around the first week of May.

If you are interested, please subscribe to the community to receive updates and TestFlight:

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My other apps: SoraSNS for Mastodon Misskey Bluesky, with local ML powered For You timeline: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sorasns-for-mastodon-bluesky/id6450969760

Thank you in advance!

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    81·
    29 days ago

    Why the need for craming AI into it?!

    Also Discord? We are on the fediverse here…

    • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      29 days ago

      Thank you for your suggestion! I have removed the AI part and honestly based on so many feedbacks I will not add AI features and instead focus on design and features. I have also updated the Discord link with a Lemmy community! Let me know about any feedbacks at any time! Thank you for your comment ;)

      • littleomid@feddit.orgEnglish
        21·
        29 days ago

        Now we talking! I will try your app once it’s out. If you implement a feature where I can scroll sideways to go the next post, your app will be my main app.

        • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          02·
          29 days ago

          Consider it done as I have added that to my list and I don’t think its so hard to do (just a gesture recognizer and a load next post in list logic)

  • littleomid@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    29 days ago

    AI and Discord aren’t my thing. Does a lemmy thread with two comments really need summary?

    • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      02·
      29 days ago

      Sorry I meant comments summary. I have updated the title and content. Thanks for the heads up!

        • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          24·
          29 days ago

          I always think offering one more choice (and making this ecosystem diverse) to the ecosystem is a good idea. It will also inspire more developers to work on more amazing products for the Lemmy community.

    • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      02·
      29 days ago

      Thank you! I mainly used Llama and Phi. Mostly tried with size of Instruct-Q5 on my SoraSNS and it works okay for recent iPhone devices.

  • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    29 days ago

    I think your work with this client is nice. You obviously put alot of hours into this one.

    You’ll probably discover that AI and maybe Discord is unpopular on this platform, and therefore you will not get alot of love here.

    BUT it is a nice client you made. Don’t want you to think otherwise, even though people disagree on some of your implementations. Because that’s the thing you are being judged on. Not your hard work and skills.

    Hope the best for your client.

    • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      01·
      29 days ago

      Thank you for your kind words.

      Yeah I guess I need to soak in a little more about the culture here. And yes, I learned so much just within the few minutes after posting ;) And I will make sure the final product is what most of people here like, for example, focusing more on functionalities and design, keep it original and without AI features, and focus more on using Federated platforms instead of centralized ones for means of communication.

      Thank you again for putting these words instead of just downvoting. As an indie developer who work hard to bring great apps to everyone I appreciate it a lot! ❤️

  • TryingToActHuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    29 days ago

    I have at least 8 Lemmy apps, but use Arctic almost exclusively. I would love to try Remmy and add it to my list of apps I have when it comes out.

    • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      03·
      29 days ago

      Thank you very much! Please do subscribe to the community and try it out when it gets released (around first week of May, I’ll post updates to the community). ✨😊