Tapestry Threads the Needle

After the downfall of Twitter and the enshittification of platforms like Reddit, Facebook, and others, I was beyond excited to see a new app hit the scene last year from a familiar company looking for the ultimate bounce back. The app is called Tapestry, out now and available here, is designed to pull feeds from anywhere on the open web and put them into a single timeline we control. In my few months using the app, I can say it’s a breath of fresh air.

A kickstarter campaign for Tapestry was launched at the end of January, 2024. The idea was simple: take the things you like read online and put them into a singular place and then give you control over how that information is presented to you. It ‘weaves’ your feeds into a single place. I saw this and loved it, so of course I backed the campaign right away. The app was another idea from Iconfactory, a company that built the first Twitter client Twitterific. Not only did they come up with the blue bird concept, but also the concept of retweets and other ideas that Twitter eventually adopted. To say Iconfactory is influential in software would be a understatement.

When Elon Musk reluctantly bought Twitter in 2022, the Iconfactory found themselves in the same place as Tweetbot and other apps: locked out without any notice. Its product was kneecapped and that was the sudden end for a large revenue stream. It took Iconfactory…