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wye
@wyehuong.bsky.social
thought creator ✌︎ sharing my journey ‧ ︎experiential play ❍❑▲ beyond screens ‧ http://untiredapp.com (mood guardian/app blocker) ‧ http://soba.to (ambient companionship)
🍜 day 6 of building soba to tackle loneliness in the digital age - working out the menu in native mac os 🤕 - squashed pesky bugs 🐛 right now the lounge is complete!
the soba mac widget is finally done 🙌🏻 it lets you have quiet company while you work, watch, browse, or just exist online. what’s coming next feels really special. ✨ doing things together, without sacrificing your privacy. if this sounds like your kind of internet,
“would you hang out here with me?” i’m building soba for mac os, an ambient companionship app to tackle loneliness in the digital age. 🧡 feel the quiet presence of others while you work, watch, browse, or just exist online. > waitlist: soba.to
im gonna ship this asap. in the following week if possible! just a clean, single feature: > basking in ambient companionship i’ll add more features once it’s live. gotta be careful of falling into the trap of romanticising building stuff (although i enjoy it)
made my character walk today with a new animation. done purely in threejs and html 🙌🏻
been busy the whole day setting up 3d and figuring out stuff. i’m building soba to tackle loneliness, and all will be revealed in due course.
dear algorithm, please connect me with folks who love to make stuff, - art & craft - tech - digital products - experiments - 2d/3d stuff - design - writers and, - marketers - indie makers from US, asia, eu, japan.. all over the world 🌎 what are you creating?
🔥 hot take: i like magic link logins so i completed the magic link login feature yesterday, for soba.to 🍜 question: > why do people not like this and prefer good old email and password + google auth? isn’t clicking a link in your email way faster? 🤷🏻♂️
👋🏻 i’m wye, a newbie creator who specialises in tech and design. over the past 4 months i’ve built two notable projects: 1. 🏰 Untired, transform app blocking into a game > blocked apps become dangerous areas > regulate your emotions + achieve mental calm > have fun while you manage your dopamine