Hello Product Hunters!!
For years I've been using Telegram as a news source. It's controllable, light-weight, Pixel-perfect and It's one of the rarest places to avoid controlled media and delve into Citizen Journalism.
But Telegram wasn't built for this. It was built as a chat app, which later one became a platform for bots, apps, coins and many other things. I personally enjoy Telegram, as I'm a big advocate for it and for its founder Pavel Durov@durov (not a big fan of his comics in app updates, but who am I to judge )!
Pain Points:
I always wanted a timeline feed experience, where I get served channel updates as a stream. This was the main and first goal of @Columbarium
And why the name?
1. I like how it sounds.
2. It's where channels are petrified and tuned into ashes of posts
3. The experience looks like a standing columbarium, you have access to multiple channel's posts at one time!
After reading all the above, I possibly will change the name :)
Please feel free to reach out on X @abumuailek and tweet me some feedback. Hate speech is welcome too.
App has lots of bugs obviously. And as soon as I get more stability and figure out more functionalities, I will make sure to launch a mobile app.
Cheers!
Mo