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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 s0rta »

jillianschuller wrote: post #19
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

Thank you for the response! And if y’all start up a patreon or something for donations to pay for hosting in the early stages, so down to support something like this

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

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Post by jillianschuller »

eitland wrote: post #11
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 ;-)

We have thought about monetizing down the line, but on principle I’m completely opposed to any model re ads/user data. We’d treat it like a tool you pay a one off price for.

Data privacy is something we can be more explicit about (thank you for highlighting this - will work on it). Re developers, it’s just my husband and I at the moment, and we’re just building it because we want it to exist.

If you want to email me any questions/concerns, I’m jill@hey.com :)

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

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Post by ghiculescu »

s0rta wrote: post #21
jillianschuller wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Thank you for the response! And if y’all start up a patreon or something for donations to pay for hosting in the early stages, so down to support something like this

Best way you can support us is to invite a buddy :)

We are just running on a 2 Heroku dynos so it’s cheap for now. High hosting costs would be an exciting future problem!

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

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Post by itoprocess »

Jill invited me to this app about 3 months ago, and it's helped me kick my social media addiction.

I wanted to stay on social media to keep up with important stuff going on with my closer friends and family. Engagements, holiday snaps, birthdays, ect. Basically, I had Fomo.

The problem was that I was spending an hour a day scrolling through, mostly ads and low quality news on my feed. I think my last actual post was over 5 years ago.

With Sundayy I know that if anything actually important happens I will find out about it on Sunday. The delayed gratification is refreshing, in a world where everything else is just a click away.

The other benefit is I now have an extra 7 hours a week that I didn't spend mindlessly scrolling.

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

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Post by itoprocess »

eitland wrote: post #11
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 ;-)

Can't agree more. If you are wondering how much main stream social apps are sharing, you can see a summary at this link. https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list. Mine has over 2,000 websites that are sharing data back.

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

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Post by wyxuan »

Great looking UI for what seems really new but just a few asks:

1. Can there be a way to see which contacts in my contact book have accounts?

2. the add profile pic feature just isn't working at all for me

3. There should be a username system where you can set custom usernames

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

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Post by tryitnow »

voisin wrote: post #3
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,…

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...

Yes, this is very confusing. Some people could read this and mistakenly assume that their reflections are always kept secret (because they didn't read the second sentence).

It might be better to change it to "Reflection are kept secret until Sunday."

This might seem like a little issue, but it's not. All it takes is one over eager person to join the app in haste, not really read how it works, post some embarrassing secret thinking it will be kept secret and then become mortified when it's revealed. Then they will raise a storm online and your app will be known as something that causes drama rather than alleviates it.

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

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Post by trhaynes »

tryitnow wrote: post #28
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...

Yes, this is very confusing. Some people could read this and mistakenly assume that their reflections are always kept secret (because they didn't read the second sentence). It might be better to change it to "Reflection are kept secret until Sunday." This might seem like a little issue, but it's not. All it takes is one over eager person to join the app in haste, not really read how it works, post some embarrassing s…

I wouldn't use the word secret at all in this case, frankly
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