Pieces
Social network for people
Details
- External ID
- 48750402
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pieces
- Website domain
- piecesof.me
- Launched
- July 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 64
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8715651135005974
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, long time lurker first time poster. I built a social network called PIECES. After building a private blog last year after I had to get off IG and Substack, I decided to productize it. It's here now. It has a dedicated web experience + iOS/Android.Would love if you tried it out!
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche social and community platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- social network for people
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a conventional social networking platform featuring profiles, text/photo posts, responsive web, and standard cross-platform client shells.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Mastodon, Ghost publishing platform, Bluesky, Flipso
Concerns raised: For-profit model with advertising leads to enshittification, Not open source or federated (steps backward), How will platform sustain itself financially without compromising values, Unclear what triggers mass exodus from incumbents given past failures, Terms of service claims not contractually binding if changed unilaterally
Feature requests: Support for YouTube-style longer videos, Open source codebase, Federated architecture
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 245 days after the earliest competitor.
- An index of indie web/blog indexes · hn · 2026-05-10 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Pressn't, a site where you can have a single post · hn · 2026-06-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Meepr · hn · 2026-01-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- tiled.page · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Fashlook · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I built a social-first search(X, Reddit, TikTok) cause Google is boring · hn · 2026-06-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Linkitin · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- The Social Hub · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.