Social users lose time catching up on noisy feeds
People who check social feeds intermittently struggle to catch up: timelines and notifications pile up, reposts clutter the feed, and new posts can move their place while they read. Existing feed experiences leave some users without a reliable way to resume or get a concise recap; one user explicitly said they would pay for a catch-up feature in Ivory.
For social-media users who check feeds intermittently. Mentioned from Jul 2023 to Jun 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub and Hacker News.
14 different people described this problem in 13 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 5.1/10
- Frequency
- 9.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 2.7/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I don’t know if that’s in your plans already, but just know that I would pay serious money for a timeline catch-up/recap feature in Ivory 🙇♀️
Ideal would be that there is an option to load new that respects my current position but still loads new posts so I can continue reading in order and "catch up" on feed
Build brief
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks