Social media users struggle to find their old posts
People who post frequently struggle to retrieve their own past posts by keyword, date, or other details, and may have to scroll through thousands of entries. The clearest cluster of evidence is from Bluesky users, who describe finding old posts and labels as difficult or ask for tools to do it. A focused archive could help, though access and search capabilities differ across platforms.
For frequent social media users. Mentioned from Dec 2023 to Sep 2026 on Bluesky, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
19 different people described this problem in 19 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 5.1/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 3.2/10
- Momentum
- 4.7/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Is there an app for being able to search & read 📚 previous 📫 📫 our own TL on @bsky.app without spending 2 hrs scrolling through 5,000 skytes, ™️?
is there a tool to search out posts from a specific timeframe? chat i need to collect all posts of me from may 2025
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