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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Great 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…

Cycle makes a ton of sense to me, because it is a cycle.

The issue of lack of exact ability to predict will be an issue no matter what, because the whole point of this app is to help you predict when your next period will start. It doesn't matter if that's displayed as a countdown, or as a calendar, or what.

But perhaps one way to alleviate the "5 minutes to midnight" issue is to have the entire section between, say, 9 and 12 be the potential start of the period, with a less-certain color at the start and a more certain color by 12. For people with a lazier period, the "maybe it will start here" section could be wider, and for people who are super regular it could just clearly show it starting at 12.

For comparing between cycles, it looks like there's a very clear statistics tab with that info.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Lady 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.

Log Lady would be better.

Yeah, lady log sounds like a different kind of log.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Presumably because there is no way to verify the claim.

There are ways to check what data is send trough the network...

Not really, not anymore. Many apps are now using certificate pinning to make it impossible for the user to to modify the trust store. This means that unless it is open source, it is very difficult for people to verify, even when they know very well what they are doing.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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> For me, a simple calendar is enough where I can add a few notes if necessary. Sounds like paper would suffice. The risk of data leaking via the cloud is near zero.

How is this comment helpful? Obviously the developer created the app because there was also a benefit of it being on their phone, but that hardly seems necessary to spell out.

Re: 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

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What's the point in "privacy friendly" if you're backing up to google?

"privacy friendly" does not mean not relying on any service at all. Its about understanding when and where your privacy is respected. If the user is already using a Google Account for the app (you need a google account to officially download apps from the Play store), they are okay with minimal use of the Google account. Google might be evil in its ways but the google app data is far different than sharing your perso…

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Ah that's great, because that's a category of apps that's not doing great in terms of privacy: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor... (And unfortunately this is also fairly sensitive data in some regions...)

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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The comments on this post are interesting: 1. Some insist that the source code be made public. 2. Some insist that there be no in-app purchases. 3. Some insist that there be no analytics whatsoever. Each of the above has some legitimate reason. However, do privacy-focused apps need to play by different set of rules? If so, what special monetization models would make sense to folks on here? #AskingForAFriend

- Patreon if what you're doing lends itself to regular updates - PayPal or other payment processor if your project could use donations - Subscription based Server As A Service for things that need data syncing between multiple platforms (eg: the public/client parts can be Free Software, the server part just exposes an API, and you make it clear what data is transmitted to the server remaining solely on the user's dev…

Menstruation consultant

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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This isn't targeted at OP. Sharing options doesnt mean that you shouldn't use the one this thread is about.

A valid point, I guess it rubs me wrong when the top reply is a negative comment about someone creating something themselves. It isn't nice or even necessarily valid. Lots of founders could've been torn down at this early phase by crap like this. My hypothesis: They need much more sun and water.

This is par for the course. When you post about a product in a domain, people will discuss similar products. There's no targeted teardown.
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