There’s no custom backend: the app reads from and publishes to existing ATproto infrastructure. The goal was to explore whether a TikTok-like experience can exist as a thin client over an open social protocol, rather than a vertically integrated platform.
Things I’d especially love feedback on:
- Whether this kind of UX makes sense on top of ATproto
- Client-only tradeoffs (ranking, discovery, moderation)
- Protocol limitations I may be missing
- Any architectural red flags
- I didn’t see any loading indicator, and some videos took multiple seconds to load - When I scroll up then back down, I get a white gradient at the bottom of the screen that goes away after a few seconds - I’d like to be able to expand the description text, but clicking it didn’t do anything - Without signing in, my initial feed was almost entirely ICE videos
Also this is probably the most comprehensive what to test notes in a test flight I've ever seen iirc