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Building Liminal

Jeremy Smithliminal.forum
A short, weekly podcast where Jeremy shares his progress on building an MVP of Liminal, a fresh take on old-school forums, due out November 1, 2024.
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Week 3 - Pipelining that HTML

Jeremy provides an update on his progress with building Liminal, a new take on old school forums. He discusses his work on Markdown rendering and processing, including helping to fix a bug in a gem. He also talks about implementing Markdown previews and an emoji picker. Jeremy shares his thoughts on using view components and the importance of extracting components from existing views. He explores the concept of direct messages (DMs) and how they can be used as ad hoc liminal spaces. He reflects ...

Aug 23, 202419 minEp. 3

Week 2 - Why Not Open Source?

Jeremy provides an update on his progress with Liminal, an app he is working on. He discusses the idea of open sourcing the app and explains why he decided against it. He also talks about the market positioning of Liminal as an alternative to Slack and Discord, and the importance of features like easy forum switching and affordable pricing. Jeremy shares his thoughts on technical aspects such as namespacing, form objects, and the use of a guest user null object pattern. He explores the idea of a...

Aug 20, 202422 minEp. 2

Week 1 - Not Actually 5 Minutes

Jeremy provides an update on his progress in building Liminal, a forum platform. He discusses the feedback he received on his product and the challenges he is facing. One challenge is the need for users to check multiple platforms for discussions, and he sees an opportunity to create a unified platform for forums. Another challenge is the lack of clear incentives for users to post on a new platform like forums compared to social media. Jeremy also talks about the progress he made on the thread p...

Aug 20, 202412 minEp. 1
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