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
  • Home Screen widget to automatically show top news, refreshed automatically several times a day
  • Filters for posts and comments based on activity, follow status

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:

[email protected]

[email protected]

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!

    • brutallyhonestcritic@lemmy.world
      152·
      4 days ago

      It is not. OP is a rent-seeking opportunist building their own closed source app that will try to upcharge you everywhere you look. If you want proof, just look at their other apps.

      Here’s a review of their BlueSky app:

      ***** edited Feb 3 • Dilroopgill

      Its annoying, I dont like it, makes me not want pro, I havent even really used the app yet just getting hit with messages telling me to upgrade, feels antifediverse

      You asked for suggestions, do not have anything in the ui that if clicked makes you pay for pro and doesnt let you use it, have one tab for pro, nothing else should lead you to that, the ui is already laggy, I accidentally click a menu option not related to pro and I get a fat popup telling me to pay for features.

      Pro should be optional and burried in a menu, there shouldnt be 10 different menu items that dont function and lead you to a payment page.

      Developer Response Jan 31

      Hi,

      Thanks for your input! I’m sorry if this makes your experience with SoraSNS less favorable!

      Like most other iOS Fediverse apps, this app contains in-app purchase to enable certain features. If you let me know which features you are looking to use in specific that triggered the purchase alert, I would make these features free or paid only after several days of usage.

      🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

      • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        25·
        4 days ago

        Thank you for your comment! I appreciate you spending your valuable time summarizing user feedbacks for my videos for Bluesky app. 👍

        As an indie developer, I understand that the balance between free user functionalities and income.

        I take every comment like yours as a feedback that I will learn from. In fact, you will see that Remy will be completely different from that!

        At any time, feel free to let me know how you think!

        Best 😃 ❤️

        • brutallyhonestcritic@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          I see that you decided avoid answering the question then insulted me like some kind of gaslighting genocidal politician.

          Thanks for showing everyone here that your priority is profiteering and your app is subject to capitalist enshittification.

        • Madbrad200
          8·
          3 days ago

          Hey man you’d come off way better if you dropped the corporate speak and talk to us like a normal person.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    three suggestions:

    1. fyi, since your post links to https://lemmy.world/c/remy and https://lemmy.zip/c/remy icymi the preferred way to link to communities (so that everyone can access them via their own home instance) is like this: !remy@lemmy.zip. When someone types that in the lemmy web interface, it will auto-complete and expand it into link markup like [[email protected]](https://lemmy.zip/c/remy), but when that markup is rendered it will actually become a link to access the community via the reader’s home instance. For instance, for me that link will actually go to https://lemmy.ml/c/remy@lemmy.zip where i can interact with the community whereas https://lemmy.zip/c/remy will take me to the lemmy.zip website where i do not have an account. Here is a non-escaped example (my previous examples are all escaped with backtick characters to prevent them from rendering) which anyone should be able to click to load it through their own instance: [email protected]. Please ensure that your client can both generate and follow community links like this! (as well as user links to lemmy and other activitypub things; user links work the same except they’re prefixed with @ instead of !.)

    2. you don’t need multiple communities for your app; users from .world can post on .zip and vice-versa (and it is easy for them to if you link to the community the way described above).

    3. will you ever consider open sourcing it? :)

  • Krafting@lemmy.world
    94·
    4 days ago

    Looks nice ! I’m not an iOS user but I sure love to see more clients for the Fediverse ! 😄

    • sorasns@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      37·
      4 days ago

      Awesome! Thanks for the positive words! If this app works well I will work on an Android version. But yeah I agree I believe more activities around the ecosystem will encourage even more developments.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    74·
    4 days ago

    Looks and sounds great! I don’t have iOS but more great clients is always a good thing.

    EDIT: I was not aware of the aggressive monetisation, that’s very unfortunate.