A minimalist social feed app inspired by the clean aesthetic of Bear Blog.
Bear Feed is currently in a "friends & family alpha" phase, being used by a small group of friends. The project embraces a philosophy of intentional social connection:
- Local & Small: Designed for close-knit communities rather than mass adoption
- Distraction-Free: No notifications, no real-time updates, and posts that automatically expire after 15 days to keep the feed fresh and intentional
- Accessible: Built with Next.js, TailwindCSS, Supabase, and v0.dev to make it easy for anyone to build & deploy their own social feed with minimal technical knowledge
The goal is to empower people to create and run their own spaces for meaningful connections.
- Content-first approach with focus on readability
- Extremely minimal interface with generous whitespace
- Standard typography with black text on white background and blue links
- Simple semantic HTML wherever possible
- Limited UI components - only what's necessary
- Responsive design for mobile and desktop
- Timeline showing posts from friends in chronological order
- Simple post creation with basic text formatting, images & link support
- Comments displayed directly under posts
- Subtle like functionality
- Minimal navigation with simple text links
- Basic user authentication
- Next.js framework
- Supabase for authentication and database
- TailwindCSS for styling
Posts are automatically removed after 15 days to keep the feed fresh.
- A special thank you goes out to Herman for creating the original ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear Blog.
- The teddy bear icon is from Microsoft's Fluent Emoji collection - licensed under MIT.
Bear Feed by Jan Raasch is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
