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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2h

Vision Pro for the masses?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 3h

Try For You - it shows posts based on your likes. There are no diapers there.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 3h

Try For You - a personalized feed based on your likes. At first glance there is no Hazbin Hotel content there.

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 4h

You know what we could do with a collection of Bluesky posts? Get recommendations from For You based on the posts in your collection!

That would probably be the next step to implement.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 4h

Got oauth working and you can view someone's collections:
rankthat.net/profile/spac...

This is still a client-side webapp talking directly to PDS. No AppView.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 6h

@gracekind.net had a related suggestion to block a specific author if you have "show less like this" posts of that author in For You.

Is there a risk of false positives? Maybe you don't like someone's takes on topic X but are ok with their posts on topic Y.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 16h

Here it is:

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, this appears on the feed if you haven't liked the feed itself yet. Please give it a like and this post will go away.

bsky.app/profile/spac...

I should probably make a video of how to like the feed.

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · Aug 10

How to like a feed is not super obvious. Here are the steps:

1. Open the feed page: bsky.app/profile/spac...
2. Tap on the feed title at the top
3. Tap "like"

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 1d

Vite + React + Tailwind

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Haven't thought of creating a global rating out of individual rankings.

The goal is to create personalized recommendations based on shared collection items.

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Try For You - a personalized feed based on your likes. It is often less random than Discover.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

I was trying to get oauth to work and ran out of Claude Pro session limit - oauth will have to wait till tomorrow.

Deployed the version with the app password login - it works now but it does not automatically redirect from rankthat.net/login to rankthat.net/ so you may need to edit the url.

RankThat - Collections

rankthat.net

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

I guess switching to OAuth is the next step so the user does not have to trust it with a password.

This is quite amazing how you can go from localStorage based demo to something that actually is visible to everyone.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

We now have the demo app write to the PDS when you login with an app password rankthat.net/login

All I needed to tell Claude was: "let's now do the heavy lifting and switch to real PDS storage"

Added my first item: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Try For You - it shows a mix of furry and cars based on your likes. No sports.

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't thought of that, but I guess a collection could be an item in another collection since an item is just a url (at:// or https:/ /).

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

2. The items and the dividers are ordered by the user. I'm thinking of how to attach the notion of "priority" to them for the purposes of making recommendations to the user. Should we have a "rating" attached to each item and/or divider. Or should we use the order in the collection as the priority?

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! Now I know: www.sofahq.com

Please let me know if the demo UI could be improved with some features from that app.

Sofa: Downtime Organizer - Sofa

Create lists of apps, books, movies, tv shows, podcasts, music albums, and video games to enjoy later.

www.sofahq.com

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the initial step is the single-player experience where you can create collections.

The real goal is a collaborative discovery.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Share our thoughts on the lexicon draft: rankthat.net/about

Maybe we could build a lexicon that is useful across apps.

RankThat - Collections

rankthat.net

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

I asked Claude to fake the PDS calls with localStorage. So the UI works with it as if it's an async PDS API. Hopefully, it should be easy to switch to the real PDS backed implementation.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Open questions:

1. How to represent seen and disliked items? Store them as a divider that has "seen items"/"disliked items" type? Or should they not be stored in PDS at all and be private on the app server? Or maybe give that choice to the user? Or encrypt them in PDS so only the user can read?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

Once I'm happy with the UI (which I think is pretty close) I'm planning:
1. Create the lexicon
2. Replace faked PDS calls on the client with the real PDS calls
3. Build a recommendation "app server" that would have similar logic to For You

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

I'm starting with a client only UI prototype and I'm faking the PDS calls with localStorage: bsky.app/profile/spac...

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

I want to make an atproto app for creating collections of anything - create book shelves, rate movies, collect science papers, fictional character tier list, etc.

Before committing to a lexicon I want to understand what a good user experience would look like and then build the corresponding lexicon

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2d

I changed that to two levels: collections that hold items and dividers (like a book divider) as a flat list. You can drag either items or dividers, you can delete dividers and add new ones.

Give a try to the demo and let me know what you think. I'll pass it to Claude :)

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