James and Sam are from Washington.
Donald Trump's social-media platform, Truth Social, has launched in a limited form on the US Apple App Store.
Mr Trump was banned from several social media sites last year.
Some early users had trouble with their accounts.
The project lead and former congressman said it would be fully operational by the end of March.
Due to massive demand, some of those trying to register had been placed on the waiting list.
Truth Social was made available to about 500 people.
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According to the App Store, Truth Social has one update for bug fixes and is now on version 1.0.1.
According to the Washington Post, a test version of the app website was discovered last autumn.
The former president was banned from the social media site after it said he had broken its rules on the glorification of violence.
The Truth Social buttons that resemble those relating to the reply, retweet and like functions have been highlighted by commentators.
On its website, Truth Social describes itself as a big tent social-media platform that encourages an open, free and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.
Mr Trump wants Truth Social to promote free speech and avoid thecensorship of sites such as Facebook.
Conservatives in Silicon Valley think that social-media companies are curtailing free speech by removing posts.
Mr. Nunes, who resigned from Congress in December to become the chief executive of the company, told Newsmax that they couldn't use any of the big tech companies.
We are having to build this from scratch.
Truth Social will be acensorship-free experience.
Content that breaks the rules has to be removed from any social-media platform.
A platform that was uncensored would soon be frozen out.
Mr Trump had more than 88 million followers.
None of the other alternative platforms have attracted the same audience as the big social networks.
Darrell West, a senior technology innovation fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that companies such as Twitter have had years to develop their platforms and build their audiences.
I think he will discover it is a lot harder than he thought.
If this were easy, he would have done it six months ago.
Last year, Parler was removed from the stores of Apple and Google for failing to take down posts they said threatened violence and contained illegal activity.
It was allowed back once it agreed to the terms of service.
Mr West says there is no way to avoid big tech.
Even if he has his own platform, they could push his app out of their app store, which would make it difficult for him to build an audience.
Gettr was founded last year by Mr Trump's former adviser and spokesman.
He told the news that it was not a guide to creating a social-media platform.
You have to find good talent.
There are a lot of people who are scared because they worry about what it will be like if I get a job at a big tech company.
Truth Social needs to be strong enough to repel hackers.
Even foreign governments and other bad actors don't want to see us succeed.
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