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

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Post by eitland »

jillianschuller wrote: post #2

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,…

Brilliant idea! Can you say a few words about how you will protect user data? (What I really want is I want every developer of any such app tied to the mast like Odysseus because we've seen what the sirens song of growth based investments from venture capital funds can do even to nice and smart people line the WhatsApp founders ;-)

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

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Post by __soter__ »

I really like this idea and could see it being great to share with family and friends, except for the missing support for web or android. Everyone I would want to connect with on something like this all have a mix of devices and this being apple only would limit that sharing to just a few of them.

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

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Post by ghiculescu »

wccrawford wrote: post #9
voisin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do these two quotes relate? They are kept secret for the week but then revealed all at once? > Reflections are kept secret. > Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week...

I think they mean that they're hidden until the next Sunday after they were posted.

That’s right! Every Sundayy you can read everyone’s reflections on that day only. Then they are gone forever. It’s very whimsical :)

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

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Post by ghiculescu »

mempko wrote: post #5
jillianschuller wrote: post #2

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,…

I love this idea but I don't own an iOS or Android device. Will there be any effort to make a web version?

There’s a web version! https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up

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

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Post by ghiculescu »

__soter__ wrote: post #12

I really like this idea and could see it being great to share with family and friends, except for the missing support for web or android. Everyone I would want to connect with on something like this all have a mix of devices and this being apple only would limit that sharing to just a few of them.

There’s a web version! https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up

Android version in review with google as we speak (I built it).

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

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Post by jillianschuller »

primitivesuave wrote: post #8
jillianschuller wrote: post #2

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,…

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 r…

Thank you for the kind words!

That is a very good idea re emailing the weekly update. Ironically we started with it being email based, then switched to the in app “buddies” (addable via a buddy code). Switched because people didn’t have an immediate email list, but definitely want to add this back in!

Thank you for the feedback, if you give Sundayy a go please let me know what you think - jill@hey.com :)

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

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Post by jillianschuller »

s0rta wrote: post #17

Hey just downloaded this! Pretty stoked to try it out. One question, is there a history of your weeks? I’d love to be able to look back on reflections, or a way to export your weekly reflection if you don’t have the server resources

Funny you should ask as we were just talking about building this!

We are thinking that on Sunday when reading others reflections, you’ll be able to view “your story”, which will be that full history (currently you can see your reflections too, but just for the week).

Glad to hear you’ve signed up! We will commit to having this built before this Sunday so you can use it going forward :P

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

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Post by jillianschuller »

ep103 wrote: post #4

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.

Web version too, my hubby linked just above. Android coming in the next week or so.

Everyone you are buddies with can see your reflections, and you can see theirs. It’s best for family and close friends :)

It’s all signal, no noise. Sundayy is the only social network I use now. Removed all the others from my phone :)

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