Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read

At least one interesting concept:

> Your first hundred readers are guaranteed. When you publish, your post is quietly shown to a hundred readers. No followers required, no algorithm to please. Good writing finds its people here.

HN does something similar (although without concrete "at least X viewers"), new comments get some seconds/minutes on the top of the comments, before they slowly "fall down", similar idea I think, surface new things. Makes sense.

I tried to signup, the form basically reported no errors nor success. Tried with just "asdasd" basically instead of semi-real information, then it was successful and asked to confirm my email. Then I went to the GitHub repository, and it says "reading is open to everyone; writing is by invitation", you might want to disable sign ups if you cannot really write anything anyways.

No one who wants to read, and no one worth reading, is going to go to a site that so clearly doesn't value human expression.

AI-generated prose isn't an obstacle to lots of people, but it absolutely is to the demographic you want to attract.

Great concepts, great execution. A rebellion against the dopamine dealers.

Hey, I found this interesting but after signup I got a single blog post in a language I don't speak, and when I said 'not for me' I got nothing. I think you can get more out of interested sign ups if you let us e.g. check out a few random blogs on signup, to get the momentum rolling.

I'm a little confused, when I click "or just read" it asks me to create a blog. Is there any way to read the content without creating a blog?

Needs a language filter. The author I'm shown today is writing in another language, making my views not that meaningful.

Is this based on ATproto ? I personnaly see new silos as something less interesting than ATProto apps.

It seems unusually tone deaf to call it a place for writers, and then let AI write the blurb.

I love the products with some level of randomness inside - I will follow yours.

I guess from the title I expected "human written" to be a part of it, though now that I look at it nothing actually guarantees that. The Claudese of the README turned me off on the idea. I like reading something written by people who excel in and relish the craft. Having the README dripping with AI slop sounding words and phrases makes me less confident in the idea that this will be a place that can capture that.

Looks cool! After signing up, “today’s stranger” was written is Arabic, so I wasn’t able to read it.

Tone deaf to have an (excessively verbose) LLM-generated readme for a blog product. Apparently writing a readme is too much to ask even for avid bloggers!

I like the concept of the message in a bottle. motivates me to write again.. But seems it requires an invite code?

How does one get an invite code for this?

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