Nate Spilman

The Domain Is the Home and Embrace Incompleteness. Content lives at your domain with canonical URLs pointing inward; the platform is downstream. Also: personal sites should evolve incrementally rather than demand perfection.

Nate Spilman

Intimacy Gradient and The Small Room Comes First. Erin Kissane: "we can't thrive in one big flat room." Alexander's Pattern 127 arriving at social software. The largest gap between what atproto apps are and what they could be — and the gradient has to be built in the view and the pacing, because it cannot be built in the storage.

Nate Spilman

There Is No App Store. Directory of atproto apps by category. Discovery here is posts, hubs, and build-in-public writeups; the last outperforms the others, because the audience that exists right now is builders.

Nate Spilman

There Is No App Store. The community hub — one of the three discovery channels that actually work below consumer scale.