BY ASHLEY GEELAN
Independent developer Sebastian Vogelsang is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that underpins Bluesky, the AT Protocol and has been built using code from the developer’s earlier Bluesky client, Skeets.
“I thought about the idea of having one base social graph and then having just different apps pick from that graph whatever they want to display,” Vogelsang said.
“I found it very intriguing, because before we had these separated networks.”
He says Flashes could help pull in new potential Bluesky users who have yet to join the social network because they never saw themselves as a “Twitter person.”
“This may give them an entry point into the network, into the whole protocol,” Vogelsang said.
However, the developer stresses that Flashes is not meant to be an Instagram clone, nor will it offer all the same features.
The app will not focus on posts with texts but solely on photos and videos no longer than one minute.
The developer expects to be able to launch Flashes to the public in a matter of weeks with a TestFlight beta arriving ahead of that.
Interested users can follow Flashes’ account on Bluesky for further updates.
