I Built a Facebook Replacement

[Slyde](https://slyde.network)

A few friends and I got together and agreed that we were sick of Facebook but still wanted to connect with people we knew, so we built something new. By we I mean I am the only engineer / designer so I built it solo but they helped with UX and spreading it and it’s starting to grow. It’s like if MySpace, Facebook and Reddit had a baby.

It’s built in react on the front end and node on the back end. There is also mobile apps with the same stack for android and iOS. It was a significant amount of work for a solo dev. I’d be happy to talk about my experience building it so far, as well as receive feedback.

There is a short explainer video on the sign in and register pages that show a little about it. Social media should be private by design, display your personality and make you feel comfortable sharing what you want with who you want. Among other things, that’s what Slyde is.

\[Edit\] I should add that we \_just\_ made this thing public yesterday.