Pieces
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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!
HN · launched Jul 1, 2026 · 64 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: niche social networking platforms · 322 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▲ +26% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 322 launches in niche social networking platforms →
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 : 242 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 243 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 245 days after the earliest competitor.
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- social. profile. · ph · 2026-10-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Meepr · hn · 2026-01-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- LATTICE | waitlist · November 1, 2026 · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- tiled.page · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 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
- Fashlook · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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