https://blog.spacehey.com/user?id=1The most recent Blog Entries by the User "An" on SpaceHeyhttps://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2132894https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2132894Hello everyone! Two weeks ago, making SpaceHey temporarily invite-only was a hard but necessary decision. Since then, we've had much-needed headroom to work on important updates for SpaceHey. Today, I want to share them with you. 1. Moderation First and foremost, we are working on an entirely new moderation concept for SpaceHey. Thank you to everyone who helped moderate SpaceSun, 29 Mar 2026 14:11:09 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2120881https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2120881Recently, SpaceHey has surpassed 2 222 222 registered users ! That's unbelievable! Thank you so much for using SpaceHey and sharing the fun! It has been an amazing time so far, and I hope all of you enjoy using SpaceHey as much as I do building and improving it! There are so many creative profiles, blogs and forums being created, interesting conversations happening and connections being made! And ...Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:54:40 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1827603https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1827603As of July 24, 2025, SpaceHey is unavailable to users in the United Kingdom . This is due to the UK's new Online Safety Act, which came into effect on July 24, 2025. The law introduces strict new requirements for social media platforms - especially around protecting minors. For example, platforms must prevent users who are under 18 from accessing features like instant messaging or potentially harm...Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:55:01 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1317135https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1317135SpaceHey is turning four years old!! 🥳 It's crazy how fast time passes when you're having fun building something like SpaceHey! I can't imagine that it was four (!!) years ago when I launched the very first version of SpaceHey! I've spent the past year mainly working on improving the existing features and fixing bugs on SpaceHey while also juggling university life. The coming year will be a busy o...Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:59:14 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1245177https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1245177Hello everyone - it's been a while! I was super busy with university and my mandatory internship in a software company for the past 6 months, so I haven't posted in a while. But that doesn't mean that I was inactive - I spent nearly every evening and every weekend working on SpaceHey. I didn't develop any new ground-breaking features, but instead I focused on improving the overall SpaceHey experie...Sat, 24 Aug 2024 19:34:02 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=982920https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=982920Hey there, everyone! Today is a very, very special day. First of all, today is SpaceHey's third anniversary! Exactly three years ago, on November 26, 2020, I released the very first version of SpaceHey to the world. 3 ʳᵈ Anniversary When I launched SpaceHey, I wasn't sure if it was something people wanted - or if it would stay a small side project, like many projects and experiments I launched bef...Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:38:31 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=525824https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=525824Today, SpaceHey turns two! Time really flies when you're having fun! 🥳 The past two years have been a blast! SpaceHey grew to nearly 600k users, SpaceHey turned into a big, friendly community and there are now hundreds of thousands of blog entries, forum topics, bulletins and - last but not least - millions of Instant Messages! And that's what today's update is all about! Introducing the all-new S...Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:33:53 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=474290https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=474290Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing well! I'm super excited to announce a few SpaceHey updates today! Let's get started! First of all, the biggest one: SpaceHey Merchandise! Starting today, you can visit shop.spacehey.com (or use the new "Shop" tab on the top right of SpaceHey) to shop high-quality SpaceHey T-shirts, Hoodies, Sweaters and Cups! By buying one of the items, you canMon, 05 Sep 2022 10:40:40 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=367333https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=367333Yes, you read that right:  Today, SpaceHey crossed 500 000 registered users! Five hundred thousand! 🤯 This is incredible!! I can't really believe this yet! I started SpaceHey about one and a half years ago at the end of 2020 as a fun, nostalgic project - and I would've never thought that it would bring joy to so many people one day! I am incredibly grateful for all of your support, your messages, ...Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:50:35 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=161026https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=161026WOW! SpaceHey turns 1 today! 🥳 One year ago, I launched SpaceHey to the world. I had just graduated from high school and couldn't travel around the world (which was my plan), so I started working on SpaceHey. It was planned as a fun, nostalgic project and I would have never thought that just one year later, there will be around 400 000 people on it! And yet, today - one year later - this is exactl...Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:12:57 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=144336https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=144336Since creating SpaceHey, privacy has always been an important aspect for me. I'm always trying to make SpaceHey as privacy-friendly as possible, and today I want to take this a step further. Private Profiles This is a feature at lot of you have been asking for: Private profiles! Starting today, you can visit your Account Settings and set your Profile to "Private". This will only allow your FrFri, 26 Nov 2021 20:48:55 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=46248https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=46248Whaaat??!! We passed 150 000 people on SpaceHey - That's incredibly awesome!! I actually can't quite believe it! I don't know what to say other than THANK YOU ! Thank you to every single one of you - you rock! When I created SpaceHey, I would have never believed if someone told me that less than a year later, over 150 thousand people will use SpaceHey. And yet, that's exactly what's the case now. ...Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:36:16 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=27305https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=27305Yes, it's true: SpaceHey Groups are here! I worked on the Groups feature and a lot more in the past weeks! Groups The most requested feature is here! Introducing SpaceHey Groups - a place to meet like-minded people, share content and talk about the topics you care about! Starting today, everyone on SpaceHey can create and join Groups. Groups currently consist of two parts: a Group Bulletin BoarFri, 04 Jun 2021 20:22:53 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=18744https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=18744A few days ago, SpaceHey hit 100 000 registered users... this is incredible!! Thank you so much everyone! I really hope you enjoy SpaceHey! I want to take this milestone as an opportunity to talk a bit about my plans for the near future! In the last weeks, I've upgraded the SpaceHey Servers and I'm currently in the process of optimizing the performance of everything even further... so expect Space...Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:24:00 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=3293https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=3293Happy New Year everyone! In this Blog post I'd like to share the plans I have for SpaceHey in 2021! SpaceHey Music I'm currently working on SpaceHey Music - a way for independant artists to share their Music directly on SpaceHey to a wide audience. Every person on SpaceHey can then browse througThu, 31 Dec 2020 18:02:09 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2650https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2650Hello everyone! Today I'm releasing a new Feature on SpaceHey: Forums ! Visit https://forum.spacehey.com to discover & post Forum Topics in different categories and talk about them with others! Have fun! If you have any Feedback, please let me know!Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:40:34 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2461https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2461I just added two new features: Bulletins and Notifications! Bulletins are a way to share content with your Friends. Bulletins are only visible to your Friends and all Bulletins have a lifespan of 10 days, after which they will be permanently deleted. On https://spacehey.com/bulletins you can view the Bulletins posted by your Friends and you'll be able write CSun, 13 Dec 2020 21:54:07 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2228https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=2228You asked for it, so here it is: The first limited edition SpaceHey Merch! A great Cup and an awesome SpaceHey Bag! You can buy these two products in the brand new SpaceHey Shop:Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:44:40 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1635https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1635Hello everyone! I want to try a few different approaches on how to monetize SpaceHey - here is my first one: You can now visit https://spacehey.com/shop and buy some cool Stickers to support SpaceHey! Here are the details: You name the Price Free worldwide shipping You will receive two Stickers with random Designs You will get a "SpaceHey SFri, 04 Dec 2020 10:26:09 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1462https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1462I just added a new feature: You can now embed SoundCloud, Spotify and YouTube content directly on your SpaceHey Profile! To do this, you first need to copy the embed-code of a SoundCloud Song, a Spotify Playlist/Song/User or a YouTube Video. Then go to the Space Hey "Edit my Profile" page , choose a section (for example the "About me" section) and paste the Embed code! Now save your changes and vi...Wed, 02 Dec 2020 19:59:19 +0000https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1310https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1310Hello everyone! I'm An, the creator of SpaceHey - nice to see you here! In this blog post I will write about my plans for SpaceHey in the future. The Launch On Sunday I took SpaceHey online. I posted it on ProductHunt and on HackerNews . Shortly after that, SpaceHey started to see a ton of visitors andTue, 01 Dec 2020 17:39:10 +0000