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Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
well, zero. just like apple. since there's no convenient way for the user the validate anything they are installing other than "the app store said so"
This is a response to a question of Google Play’s reproducibility which is moot because of the distribution mechanism. *Android* in general does have reproducibility especially from third party repos like F-droid.
correct.
sadly fdroid usage is close to zero. and even there verification requires adb hacks and very expert users, even for basic hash checking.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#113I'll check this out! The Fitbit tracker I use is routinely off on cycle start/end notifications, even though I'm on a 21/7 birth control cycle. I have to edit the "smart" cycle predictions every few months when they start diverging.
Also: fitbit is owned by Google, if I'm not mistaken, so privacy is an afterthought at best.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#114Lady Log sounds more like a poop tracker, but I only say that because I'm a shitposter.
Rock on. I hope you make a smart menstural cup that does automatic logging and other measurements while maintaining privacy.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#115Great idea, especially since many popular cycle tracking apps have a bad rep of sharing data eagerly with Facebook and other entities. One thing though: I know it's popular in these apps to show the cycle as a "clock face", but if you think about it, this is a weird representation, because of the variations in cycle lengths (of natural cycles not changed by contraceptive hormones). So, if one cycle is 26 days long an…
Yeah - you are right. But I like it that I can see how many days are left - even if it's not 100% correct and I get stuck at "5 minutes before 12" because then I see that it can appear every time.
Maybe I'll add an option for another representation... something like the commit graph in github (don't know the name...) That would be nice too.
To compare the cycle length there is an extra statistic section. I want to add a graph there to make the fluctuations more clear.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#116I’d like to post a different sort of off-topic comment. As someone who’s married to a brilliant programmer and has a daughter almost a year old, thank you for showing a public example of simply being a woman in tech. We don’t plan on shoving our daughter in front of an editor from a young age — we have no expectations of her, and she’s free to be whoever she wants to. But one reason my wife didn’t get into programmin…
I spent 7 hours last night picking out and building pre-summer flower arrangements and gift bundles for our wonderfully patient and kind office managers.
If my grandmother hadn't been forced to learn ikebana as a young woman and continued that on her own in the US as a florist, and if I hadn't had to help her while I was growing up, I in all likelihood would never have been able to appreciate a good table setting or any of the floral arts, let alone thought to learn them as an independent pursuit - it had to start somewhere.
As an adult, I love it, and it used to melt the stress off my ex's face during the holidays when she was planning everything else and I said I'd take care of decorating.
Mother's Day is fast approaching, but there's never a bad time to appreciate what the women in your life have taught you and reflect on the effort it took to learn and pass it down.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#117Great idea, especially since many popular cycle tracking apps have a bad rep of sharing data eagerly with Facebook and other entities. One thing though: I know it's popular in these apps to show the cycle as a "clock face", but if you think about it, this is a weird representation, because of the variations in cycle lengths (of natural cycles not changed by contraceptive hormones). So, if one cycle is 26 days long an…
Yeah - you are right. But I like it that I can see how many days are left - even if it's not 100% correct and I get stuck at "5 minutes before 12" because then I see that it can appear every time. Maybe I'll add an option for another representation... something like the commit graph in github (don't know the name...) That would be nice too. To compare the cycle length there is an extra statistic section. I want to ad…
Options / customizations is often the way the go
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#118I actually built a simple one (also for Android) as there wasn't anything easy out there. One thing that my gf wanted as additional features was the possibility to also track mood (I let her choose among 5 ranges of emojis) and add tags to each day: for example she can create a tag "pains" and set if she had cramps a day or not. All that can be expected to csv/xslx for her own analysis. If you add these features, I'l…
My app needs a minimum sdk 19. So at least that would fit. But to be honest: I don't think I'll add those features in the near future.
The mood tracking is already on the feature list. But the one with the tags.... I write it down to evaluate it. Also you can export the data - but that will result in a json file - not a csv
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#119Excellent job. I'm a huge advocate of offline first, privacy forwards apps - consider open sourcing and making it fully offline.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, given the legal complications of reproductive health in some states, privacy would be at the top of my mind if considering to use an app like this.
Not sure why you're being down voted, this is a great point. And a depressing one.
Not a woman, so take this with a grain of salt.
A few years ago, I wouldn't have been very bothered by the privacy implications of an application like this, but for obvious reasons it's become much more prudent to consider them. Were I a woman I'd be deeply troubled to use an application like this, no matter how good, without some kind of ironclad proof of a privacy respecting codebase. Imagine logging patterns indicative of a pregnancy followed by an abortion, and then imagine selling this data to Texan bounty hunters[0] or any other nefarious actor in your jurisdiction. The stakes have become too unacceptably high to use an application like this without knowing with perfect certainty that it is safe to use.
Which isn't to cast any aspersions on OP for developing it. But the game has suddenly become very dangerous, and despite their reassurances, this is in fact a weapon of potentially lethal consequence.