Remy for Lemmy: Upcoming iOS client app with modern interface and advanced features
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:
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!
Is it FOSS?
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:
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Hm, that's unfortunate. Boost has a paid version, but this seems a bit more agressive
Hi! I will make sure Remy is not like that at all. You can try it yourself when it releases.
Let's see, good luck in the meantime!
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 😃 ❤️
Hey man you'd come off way better if you dropped the corporate speak and talk to us like a normal person.
LLM speak
three suggestions:
fyi, since your post links to
https://lemmy.world/c/remyandhttps://lemmy.zip/c/remyicymi the preferred way to link to communities (so that everyone can access them via their own home instance) is like this:[email protected]. 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 tohttps://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]where i can interact with the community whereashttps://lemmy.zip/c/remywill take me to thelemmy.zipwebsite 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!.)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).
will you ever consider open sourcing it? :)
Oh wow thank you for the detailed information! Going to update the post now.
You’ve been dodging the open source question repeatedly because IMO you’re here to make money off of our naivety.
The fediverse happily funds devs that want to help build the community. Here’s a proper fediverse style community: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
Notice how many contributors there are and the licensing?
Neat!
Thank you ✨
Looks nice ! I'm not an iOS user but I sure love to see more clients for the Fediverse ! 😄
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.
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.
Thank you for your kind words ✨
Looks great!
Thank you! ❤️ Please do feel free to subscribe to the community so you can try it firsthand before release.
Could you maybe consider another instance than LW for your community? LW is too large at the moment, and has 3 days issues with some instances: https://lemmy.world/post/27146072?scrollToComments=true
Lemmy.zip is very well managed: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677?scrollToComments=true
Good idea! I will create a community there too and update my post to add that link. Thank you for the heads up!
Might I also recommend that you close the LW community and redirect it to the zip one? Having discussion split across two identical communities is generally detrimental to discussion.
Typical procedure is as follows:
Amazing, thanks !