Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week

Hey all,

A year ago I deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone. I didn’t like the attention hijacking, or the never-ending feed surfing, or how they made me feel.

Looked around for a more minimalist platform I could use to stay connected to family and friends. Couldn’t find one, so started building one.

Sundayy is a social network centered around mindful reflection. It is designed to be checked just once a week, on Sunday.

Mon - Sat: You’re prompted to slow down, reflect, and write about what the day has brought you. Once you reflect, that’s it. Reflections are kept secret. There are no feeds to check.

Sunday: Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week as they lived it; day by day, in their own words.

My husband and I have been building Sundayy together while using it with close family and friends. Has become a nice ritual to read reflections over a tea on Sunday morning, then call family/friends from there.

app only?

I can be friends with whomever, but only see reflections from specific people or groups?

I've pretty much stopped using most social media, because the level of noise that is put into my feed (ads, manipulative "news", etc) drops the signal to noise ratio and I have no ability to curtail it.

As this is iOS only, it would really benefit from "Log in with Apple"! As with all social networks: People only use it if their friends are using it, whom intern have the same problem. This would be great if it would incoroprate automatic recaps of post on other platforms, if a Contact does not have sundayy.

Autmaticly generate A summary from their instagram / facebook for example.

This is a great idea and the UI is beautiful.

I had a similar personal project a while back to just send out emails to people with my "social update" on a weekly/monthly/yearly basis. People would opt-in to the email and select the frequency from a form on my personal website, and on my end I would get a reminder to send out my weekly update. It ended up being a bit buggy and a hassle to manage, and I'm planning to rewrite it soon. I bet if you built this feature into the app, you could organically grow the user base, as users would be able to still send Sunday reflections to certain emails and that email could have a link to download the app.

I think the audience for an app like this is people like me, who want to free themselves from social media altogether. I'm thrilled to see people working on the dopamine addiction that Twitter/Facebook/etc feed on, and wish you the best of luck on this venture!

Also, if you're looking for some free serverless code to power the idea I mentioned above, let me know how I should get that to you.