We have been offline for a few days, as I kind of have a day job and other commitments, but I am going to do a sprint this weekend to get bugs fixed. Then, time to really push and get out there more! <3 to all of the alpha testers!

After what google and apple did this week, I am glad we decided to build a browser app instead of a mobile app. Look at what we can post:

Gulf of Mexico.

So far on the bug tracker:

Filtering after pulling up an individual account is glitchy.

Startup is a little slow, taking maybe 10 seconds to launch the feed.

The feed should filter out videos seen previously.

Skinny phones don't show videos right.

Not bad for an alpha launch. Will fix soon.

WRT our alpha, so far the service seems to be performing pretty well. Login and initial feed starts may take several seconds to load, but it is responsive once going. We may add more indexing on or allocate more resources to the database to speed it up a little more.

Alpha test is live! Probably a little buggy, could use improvement, but live! There are no limits on users except what the server can handle, no app that needs to be installed. Check it out!
www.infra-at.com/index.html

After some discussion, I think we are going to let users upload long form video up to maybe 500mb, since others don't allow this yet. This won't be pushed to the AT protocol until we set up our own PDS supporting larger files. And they will be categorized as adult until we have a good porn detector.

So what can you expect from the infra launch? A relatively functional webapp.

Have I built a mobile app for it yet? Nope. App stores are, uh, rather restrictive. And I have not had enough time for that effort yet.

Is the app perfect? No, I will debugging the app in prod ;)

But, it should be fun!

Well, it looks like I ordered the wrong case for the new server. Who even builds a mid size tower that is not ATX compatible in 2025?

Regardless, the infra software is largely MVP-complete. Check out the screenshot! A few tiny odds and ends left todo, but 98% of the way there. 2 weeks dev time.

How many devs and how many months (years?) do yall think meta had before they launched reels? I'm just 1 dev here working in my spare time after work, having a "hold my beer" moment to push out a video app.

Ordered hardware for our first server! Let's see how far a 4tb SSD and 16 cores gets us! We will be assembling as soon as it gets here and are looking to launch is about a week - no limits on sign ups, you just use your BlueSky to log in.

As we (the team is 1 software dev/hotdog enthusiast and 1 graphic designer/hotdog enthusiast) finish up the prototype app, I think we on the more open protocols need to have a discussion about monetization. I know BlueSky is already discussing it as well, and I'm not sure what their status is. Cont.

Getting really close to launching! And now we are posting a text post in order to have a test case for QA.

We all agree with @tenspd.bsky.social that hot dogs are better than politicians. And now we are using her video as a test case for infra!