Minimalist
social media.
Stop frying your brain, you lunatic.
What does “minimalist social media” mean?
Social media used to be good. It used to connect people.
Now it’s a society-wide addiction, ruining everyone’s brains, and we all just kinda accept it as part of life now.
Not to mention they listen to your every move dude. It’s really bad.
What makes you think you can solve an issue like that?
Well I’m addicted myself, and I’m a software engineer. So I know just how bad the brainrot is, and I'm also familiar with how they spy on us.
If anyone can create an alternative, it's gotta be me
How are you going to do it?
By building a minimalist social media app :) and keeping it simple. Thankfully that'll make it easier to build too.
The app is called Fresh. It’s like a mix of Instagram and X, but without ads, AI, algorithms, short-form video, and all the stuff YOU KNOW is bad about it but you use it every day anyway
No ads? No stealing my data? How are you going to make money?
Freemium model. You can use the app with some limitations for free, or $2/mo to use the whole thing.
I know it’s insane to try to get people to pay for social media, but I’m hoping there’s enough people out there who feel the same problems as me that will think it’s worth it. And I don’t feel like $2 is all that expensive lol.
I like the idea but no offense dude, it seems pretty unlikely that this will take off at all
Yeah trust me, I know it won't be easy. But it's not because there isn't a need for it, I just know people are going to be stubborn about giving up their precious insta and tiktok
But I don’t wanna give up Instagram and tiktok
Suit yourself man. This app is for people who do, there just isn’t a good alternative.
Social media is basically how I get all my news. Honestly I don’t want to go without it.
You’ll find that anything you’re afraid of losing by giving up insta/tiktok/X are things that are bad for you anyways.
How can I be sure you’re not stealing my data though? Doesn’t every tech company claim that too?
Fresh is open source. This means the app’s code is not hidden, and you can see exactly what goes on behind the scenes.
Take a look for yourself: coming soon, i will make the repo public as soon as the first version is released
Good enough for me. How do I get started?
Well... it’s not done yet. So, you can play on the dev server here: https://dev.freshapp.io
You can sign up for the waitlist here, to be notified when it is: https://freshapp.io/waitlist
And/or you can check out some videos I’ve made about Fresh: coming soon, except the one up top
Have patience. I’m only one man ;)