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Startly: Social Network
A small, early-stage social network for posting updates and photos and following hashtags and trends.
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- Developer
- Starflare Group SAS
- Score
- —
- Downloads
- 0 ratings
- Age
- Rated 17+
- Version
- 1.0
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Feeds, followers, hashtags and likes: Startly is a straightforward social network in the familiar mould. It's for people who want somewhere to post updates and photos and follow others around shared interests, without much else getting in the way. At the moment you can publish text and photo posts to your followers, browse a home feed where other users' posts on trends, hashtags and news surface, follow creators and friends, and respond through comments and a star-shaped like button. There are hashtag pages, a notifications view, and follower and following counts on your profile. The developer says more is on the way, so the current list is short. One oddity: the store listing text calls the app Tuetly throughout, so the two names appear to refer to the same thing.
Startly: Social Network: the full guide
What the app is
A home feed, follower counts, hashtag pages and a star where the heart would be. Startly is a social network in the most familiar shape, published by Starflare Group SAS. It's for people who want a small, uncrowded place to post updates and photos around shared interests.
What exists today is modest: text and photo posts to followers, a home feed where posts about news, hashtags and trending topics appear, comments, hashtag pages, notifications and follower counts on a profile. The developer says more is coming. One oddity: the store listing's own text refers to the app as Tuetly throughout, which suggests one app under two names.
How it works day to day
With a small user base, a day on Startly is quieter than on the big networks. You post a photo or a thought, a few followers star it, someone comments. The home feed shows what others are saying about a trending topic or a hashtag you've tapped into, and notifications collect the responses. Following a handful of creators and friends gives the feed some shape. There are no stories, messaging or video features described, so the loop is post, browse, respond, and come back later.
Why people look for it
Curiosity about new social networks brings a trickle of early adopters who want somewhere smaller and less algorithmic than the incumbents, or who hope to build a following before a platform gets crowded. Some arrive via the Tuetly name from the store listing. Others are simply looking for a plain update-and-photo network without the extra layers the big platforms have grown.
Look and feel
Five screenshots are shown, presumably the home feed, a post composer, a profile with follower counts, a hashtag page and notifications. The description's star-shaped like button is the one distinctive visual detail it reveals; otherwise expect the standard social layout of a scrolling feed with avatars and action buttons. Colour scheme and typography aren't described.
