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

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Post by felsokning »

gary_0 wrote: post #5

To help drive home the privacy angle, you might consider open-sourcing it and also making it available on F-Droid. Also, why does it say "in-app purchases"? If this is a simple calendar I don't see why any purchasable extras should be necessary. (While many in the HN crowd lack the requisite equipment to make use of your project, we do have girlfriends, wives, sisters, and daughters who might benefit from a privacy-r…

OP seems to embrace Google Analytics, as stated on their own site.[1] So, you might be barking up the wrong "if you want true privacy, avoid Google" tree, here, sadly.

(I agree with you but OP probably thinks/feels differently about Google - itself.)

[1] - https://www.siekmoeller.com/ladylog/impressum.html

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

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Post by yahayahya »

infodrop157293 wrote: post #11

Other options that are open source include: drip. https://dripapp.org/ Bluemoon https://gitlab.com/ngrob/bluemoon-android https://www.nilsgrob.ch/work/bluemoon Periodical https://arnowelzel.de/en/projects/periodical Log28 https://github.com/wildeyedskies/log28

My wife is a big fan of Euki which is privacy focused and developed by a non-profit.

https://eukiapp.org/

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

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Post by beeboobaa3 »

sshine wrote: post #29
simple10 wrote: post #6

Well done! It's great to see more female developers building apps for women. I agree with other commenters that you'd get a lot of mileage out of open sourcing it and doubling down on the privacy / local storage angle. It would help you get press coverage if you want to grow the user base.

> you'd get a lot of mileage out of open sourcing it I’m not sure. Maintaining an open source project requires even more time than a closed source project. You can have a community-oriented closed source project, too. > and doubling down on the privacy / local storage angle Yeah!

There's a difference between open sourcing and "maintaining an open source project".

Realistically most open source android apps do not receive many, if any, contributions from outsiders. Being open source does however signal the app isn't likely to become a paid shitfest.

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

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Post by andrewfromx »

sshine wrote: post #26
russdill wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to hijack a bit here, but have any good links to open source baby tracking apps that allow sharing between partners? The popular options out there on the app stores are a privacy dumpster fire.

I’d recommend FindMy, but it only works for iBabies.

tell me about it. And I can never Green text bubbles from my droid baby.

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

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Post by kevincox »

gowld wrote: post #13
gary_0 wrote: post #5

To help drive home the privacy angle, you might consider open-sourcing it and also making it available on F-Droid. Also, why does it say "in-app purchases"? If this is a simple calendar I don't see why any purchasable extras should be necessary. (While many in the HN crowd lack the requisite equipment to make use of your project, we do have girlfriends, wives, sisters, and daughters who might benefit from a privacy-r…

What's the status of trustworthy reproducible build systems for deploying open source code to apps on Android?

https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

I think Signal also does this for their Android app. I'm not sure of much else in this space.

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

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Post by simple10 »

sshine wrote: post #29
simple10 wrote: post #6

Well done! It's great to see more female developers building apps for women. I agree with other commenters that you'd get a lot of mileage out of open sourcing it and doubling down on the privacy / local storage angle. It would help you get press coverage if you want to grow the user base.

> you'd get a lot of mileage out of open sourcing it I’m not sure. Maintaining an open source project requires even more time than a closed source project. You can have a community-oriented closed source project, too. > and doubling down on the privacy / local storage angle Yeah!

Open sourcing would just be a PR tactic IMO. Since it's all local storage anyway, there shouldn't be many security maintenance issues. I just think it gives a nice story angle for bloggers and tech press. But agreed, trying to build an active open source project with a community around it is a whole other ballgame and likely not worth the trouble.

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

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Post by stormqueen »

felsokning wrote: post #31
gary_0 wrote: post #5

To help drive home the privacy angle, you might consider open-sourcing it and also making it available on F-Droid. Also, why does it say "in-app purchases"? If this is a simple calendar I don't see why any purchasable extras should be necessary. (While many in the HN crowd lack the requisite equipment to make use of your project, we do have girlfriends, wives, sisters, and daughters who might benefit from a privacy-r…

OP seems to embrace Google Analytics, as stated on their own site.[1] So, you might be barking up the wrong "if you want true privacy, avoid Google" tree, here, sadly. (I agree with you but OP probably thinks/feels differently about Google - itself.) [1] - https://www.siekmoeller.com/ladylog/impressum.html

I use GA only for the homepage not the app itself

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

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Post by stormqueen »

gary_0 wrote: post #5

To help drive home the privacy angle, you might consider open-sourcing it and also making it available on F-Droid. Also, why does it say "in-app purchases"? If this is a simple calendar I don't see why any purchasable extras should be necessary. (While many in the HN crowd lack the requisite equipment to make use of your project, we do have girlfriends, wives, sisters, and daughters who might benefit from a privacy-r…

In-app purchases: You can buy another theme if you want. There is no need to do that - the whole functionality is available anyway. I thought it would be nice to at least have the opportunity to make some money from it...

I haven't thought about open-sourcing it... Maybe I'll think about it...

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