A Better Internet
Details
- External ID
- 47733479
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A Better Internet
- Website domain
- tomclancy.info
- Launched
- April 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5919023136246787
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Even Pandora had hope
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- —
- AI stance
- —
- Project type
- —
- Normalized one-liner
- —
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is simply an opinion blog post / manifesto published on a static personal website, which can be created with any static site generator or basic HTML in minutes.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Ephemeral messaging apps with deletion features, Non-ranked forums without like systems
Concerns raised: Search engine optimization reduces authentic user sharing, Lack of searchability limits long-term information value, Users want temporary/deletable content rather than permanent records
Feature requests: No karma/ranking system, Non-indexed by search engines, Deletable posts and comments
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 123 days after the earliest competitor.
- Onda, an internet radio TUI with stream quality selection · hn · 2026-07-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Rip.so · hn · 2026-04-29 · 187 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I made a music player inspired by late 90s peer-to-peer sharing · hn · 2026-08-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- plexo · github · 2026-09-15 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Recall · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Rdio · hn · 2026-08-14 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- wormhole-display · github · 2026-09-14 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Relay · hn · 2026-02-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.