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slymnoyann/hey.xyz
Hey is a decentralized and permissionless social media app built with Lens Protocol 🌿
A Lens Protocol-based decentralized social media client (React/Next.js/TypeScript), forked from the original Hey.xyz project. The README states this specific fork is presented as a frozen snapshot of the codebase from before May 2026, with the implication that ongoing development moved to a private repo — worth noting since that framing can't be verified from the repo alone.
Full-featured web3 social app reference implementation: wallet auth, posting, groups, collect/tip open actions, notifications — useful as a real-world example of wiring Lens Protocol, wagmi/viem, and GraphQL codegen together in a large TypeScript monorepo. Decent engineering hygiene for a frontend project: Biome for lint/format, Husky pre-commit hooks, Vitest, typecheck script.
This is a fork (slymnoyann/hey.xyz), not the canonical heyxyz/hey.xyz repo, and the README's own disclaimer says it may be stale against current Lens Protocol APIs, RPC endpoints, and auth infra — a successful build here is explicitly not a guarantee it runs against live services. No indication of who slymnoyann is or why they're distributing this snapshot rather than pointing to the upstream project, which is a yellow flag for anyone treating this as an authoritative source. AGPL-3.0 licensing means any derivative work has copyleft obligations that are easy to miss when just cribbing patterns from it.