Abstract
- Flashes, a brand new photo-sharing app, has simply gone into open beta, attracting 3,000 sign-ups inside hours of launch on iOS utilizing TestFlight.
- The app affords a well-known expertise with similarities to Bluesky and Instagram interfaces.
- Flashes advantages from its shut reference to Bluesky, aiming to draw extra customers and provide an Instagram various.
Bluesky is a substitute for X that has surged in popularity in latest months as a consequence of Elon Musk’s administration of the social media platform previously known as Twitter. Now, a brand new Instagram various can be gaining traction, due to Bluesky.
Sebastian Vogelsang, an impartial developer from Berlin, not too long ago introduced Flashes, a brand new photo-sharing app just like Instagram that has been constructed utilizing the identical AT Protocol as Bluesky (through TechCrunch). The app was simply launched in open beta for iOS utilizing Apple’s TestFlight service, and inside a number of hours, it had already attracted over 3,000 sign-ups.
Nonetheless, the app’s beta invites are quickly closed as a consequence of a technical subject. The developer is working with Apple to get them again up quickly. An Android beta can be within the works.
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A well-recognized picture sharing expertise
Flashes’ user-interface is a combination between Bluesky and Instagram
The feed for customers on Flashes is populated with content material from Bluesky, because the app “filters” pictures and movies from the platform to your feed. Presently, it permits posts that includes as much as 4 pictures and movies which are as much as a minute-long. Moreover, customers can change between numerous feeds they’ve on Bluesky to entry extra customized content material.
The interface is harking back to Bluesky and Instagram (see above), and similar to Meta’s in style image-sharing app, you’ll be able to like and touch upon pictures, add filters, and direct message customers. The app’s developer hopes Flashes will encourage extra customers to try out Bluesky and entice individuals who “by no means noticed themselves as a Twitter individual.”
Flashes being so intently intertwined with Bluesky is working to its profit. On February 1, Bluesky announced it had reached a milestone of 30 million customers and 1 billion posts. With that many individuals signed up and posting, there is a good probability a few of them would not thoughts an Instagram model of the app — which Flashes is engaged on delivering.
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