A Sunslider Summer ❤️🔥
It's been a big few months around here, and not just because of France's rolling heat waves. We've got updates on the Sunslider app and Sunslider Albums that can make this the first summer in a while where sharing moments with friends doesn't feel like a fight against the algorithm for every eyeball.
Sunslider is for friends. So hit that invite button.
On the app side, one of the big construction zones has been to make the friend invite function more useful, both in app (you can now grab your personal link either from your profile or your settings) and in terms of what it does. Now, a person who uses your invite code during sign up is automatically connected with you, so their My Circle feed will immediately be useful.
Want to convince your friends to give it a try? Here's the pitch: Tired of copy/pasting into Whatsapp Groups? Don't want to keep giving Meta and Instagram all of your personal data and getting a bunch of ads in return? Sunslider is here to function as an actual social network, always putting your friends front and center - something today's social giants have completely done away with.
New: Collaborative photo albums
Sunslider Albums has a new product: collaborative photo albums, where you can invite up to 4 friends to contribute to what will eventually be one shared album. It's perfect for a party, a weekend with friends, anytime when there are a bunch of people taking photos and you want to:
1) Not waste time gathering and sorting through hundreds of photos,
2) get one shared album that everyone can view with just one link,
3) be done in about 5 minutes.
(One thing: Albums is separate from the Sunslider app; sign up takes about 30 seconds and you get a free album to try it straight away 💝)
A new bottom line: Social media is a misinformation machine; only a social network can stand against AI slop
We all think we can tell what's AI and what isn't, that we aren't the ones getting fooled. Well, we're all wrong, and the more time we spend on social media that's designed to be a misinformation machine, the more often we'll be fooled.
That's why we built our new Sunslider app marketing page, walking through what the app does and why. It highlights key product decisions will let us resist the growing wave of AI slop in ways that today's social media can't, most significantly by taking away the algorithmic incentives for posting it.
That page also has a caveat on it, one that many of you know: we absolutely use LLMs at Sunslider, but for very specific purposes. It wouldn't be honest to rail against social media and AI slop without acknowledging where these tools are useful, and the problems they most definitely contain. You can see our AI stance page here. It's certainly not perfect, but we think it tends to the good; your feedback is, as always, welcome 💗
Bits and pieces
We've squished bugs and made our products smoother all around: text overlays on slides and stories are much better now, Albums includes some quick start tips to show how to get the most out of the tool, and Scroll Break and ReadMoar are both ready and waiting to help you spend less time scrolling and more time on the things you really want to be doing.
We've also got new Instagram and TikTok accounts, where we'll be posting regularly. This took a while because, well, when you're trying to help people get away from social media, it's hard to reconcile needing to use social media to get to them. But, it's 2026, and we've realized that we need to meet people where they are. So give us a follow, it really will help us reach people and is one of the most helpful things you can do 🤗
(Besides maybe going onto our shop to grab a t-shirt or mug, of course ;)
Until next time, with love from Lyon,
Kyle
🥐 PS: Pour l'instant, ce newsletter va être que en anglais; je vais voir comment je peux faire pour créer des catégories et l'envoyer dans ta langue préférée. C'est sur la liste, promis 🙏
🫒 PD: Por ahora, este newsletter va a ser solo en inglés; voy a ver cómo puedo hacer para crear categorías y enviarlo en tu idioma preferido. Está en la lista, prometido 🙏
🍋 PS. Per il momento, questa newsletter sarà solamente in inglese; devo vedere come fare per creare delle categorie e inviarla nella tua lingua preferita. È sulla lista, promesso 🙏
