ignasheahy

I have something to show you - it's a unique platform I've been working on and lately it has picked up some pace, so it's now more mature. Check out https://heahy.com (or special chat made for you: https://heahy.com/c/hackernewschat) There you can: -Create public channels and chats by simply entering a name (like IRC), and if it's free, it's yours, or you join it otherwise. -Each thread is real-time, so you can chat with other people there - no need to refresh for new comments. -4chan-like reply system - it doesn't use nested comments because that wouldn't work with a real-time chat system, but there is a structure that allows you to manage different conversations. For example, if you click a post, you will see all posts that led to that post on the right sidebar. You can also double-click and that post becomes the root post (kind of like tweets/comments on X.com). -Create private groups and personal chats with other people. -Supports P2P live audio/video calls (up to 8 people) in all private chats and in public chats if the channel allows (you can test it by clicking Create call in the @random chat channel) -Video/image uploads (up to 8MB now) and the ability to save media to your library for later viewing -You can follow channels, chats, threads and users, and all those posts appear on your feed in a simple chronological order -Unlike Discord: no tracking, advertisements, AI, paywalls, registrations; nothing is hidden behind a server - just a web page fully accessible and searchable both in the app and by search engines

On the immediate roadmap: -Mobile apps (Android first) -Chat Match portal - Create a simple poster with one picture, tags for filtering, and a description of what you are searching for, and match with other posters to start DMs. -Reactions/GIFs - instead of integrating with Tenor or similar, Heahy will have its own reactions library. -Long-form text/blogs - Channels will be able to have rich long text threads, basically allowing you to have a blog on Heahy.

I am really looking forward to hearing some feedback and constructive criticism. What do you think?

I had this idea going on in my mind for a while. Is there any research or startup or company that is working on trees farming. I mean maybe genetically modify trees so they grow in a few years to an usable state and we could start cultivating them like any other agriculture good. Why I am interested is that this could be amazing to the planet. First it would make wood very cheap and we could start using a lot more. As I understand trees and wood in general captures a lot of CO2 so if we build stuff from it (houses, furniture, decorations etc) it would lock that carbon. It could also reduce usage of plastics that we need to extract oil to make (and it's much nicer too, we usually buy plastic stuff because it's so much cheaper). Cheap wood plus stricter regulation would protect natural high value forests as it would not be economical to compete with wood farmers in most of the cases. This would further increase carbon capture and protect our nature. Is this idea crazy? What I am missing? Or is it tried but couldn't be done yet?

Hello HN,

I want to share something that I worked on for quite a while as my side project - www.heahy.com an IRC like chat where you can share various media and even record yourself (using web MediaRecorder api). Here is a thread with short explanation on how it works: https://www.heahy.com/channel/homepage/thread/3900adb9e441a09abc757461

I am looking for any feedback and if you have any ideas, advice or questions I am eager to hear it here or on heahy!