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Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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The page says "14-day Free trial. No Credit Card Required." but there is no mention of any pricing page. What happens once the trial is over? Does the boy just stop sending messages?

"boy" is obviously a typo. But can be seen as a reference to Amazon Mturk kind of automation by delegating to a human.

ha!

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whats the goal will replying with AI slop?

Possibly reinforcement learning, to determine how to phrase a comment such that human users will not recognize it as AI.

I prompted chatgpt to make it more human and casual:

huge props on launching! Seriously love how you’ve brought back the whole Ohlife vibe but made it way easier with WhatsApp. No apps or sign-ups? Genius. Plus, those daily reminders and little throwbacks? Such a nice touch—perfect for sparking some good ol’ nostalgia. You can totally see how much you care about this, and I’m hyped to see how people, especially the Ohlife fans, will dig it. Wishing you all the luck with it!

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I personally wouldn't have realized the above was written by AI. YMMV

My point is, "reinforcement learning" to make it not sound like AI is a little bit pointless at this point, IMHO.

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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@rahulg Could you tell me about your experience getting approved for production on the meta business account? I’ve been trying to get approval for months now. it’s always denied. Building on Whatsapp has been impossible for this reason. Any tips?

Hi. WhatsApp keeps changing its policies but if you have a business entity it should be possible to get it. If the business is verified by Meta then it should straight forward. Would you like to email me - I'm happy to get on a call and help. I'm on rahulg at bakbak dot me.

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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Trusting something as private as my personal diary to 3rd party sounds like a scary idea from a privacy point of view. Imagine someone hacking this site, exposing your very private information.

I wish there was something like that end-to-end encrypted. You are already using E2E encryption for the communication channel (WhatsApp). I wish there was a hookup to store the same data without breaking down the chain of encryption. WhatApp should look into that. Something like ProtonDrive connected to WhatsApp and APIs.

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right. WhatsApp Business API has a cost (which varies depending on country and type of message the Business initiates). I'm hoping to recover the cost through monthly subscriptions.

Huh yeah that's good to hear. As a small note, on my personal bot I set up a simple journaling (and then just used google sheets as the backend!) includes a nominal 'rating' 1-10 so I can see how my mood fluctuates. Especially if they do it every day/most days, having the option to see what you wrote "on this day" 2-3 years back is great. Especially when I try to include people's names who I was interacting with (but…

I do agree that getting to read entries from your past is quite magical and has to be experienced to really understand it.

Fantastic that you've set it up for yourself.

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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> amazing private collection of your life stories

I guess it's technically not "public" but then again it's shipping your most private thoughts to WhatsApp and an unknown person and "privacy" isn't mentioned on the landing page once.

Personally I can recommend DayOne which is built by a trusted entity Automattic (Wordpress etc.) and they do have a big focus on privacy: https://dayoneapp.com/privacy-pledge/

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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post #34

Trusting something as private as my personal diary to 3rd party sounds like a scary idea from a privacy point of view. Imagine someone hacking this site, exposing your very private information. I wish there was something like that end-to-end encrypted. You are already using E2E encryption for the communication channel (WhatsApp). I wish there was a hookup to store the same data without breaking down the chain of encr…

I'd love to figure out a way where entries are encrypted but also the features/user-friendliness is not sacrificed.

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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post #34

Trusting something as private as my personal diary to 3rd party sounds like a scary idea from a privacy point of view. Imagine someone hacking this site, exposing your very private information. I wish there was something like that end-to-end encrypted. You are already using E2E encryption for the communication channel (WhatsApp). I wish there was a hookup to store the same data without breaking down the chain of encr…

You can easily develop and self host such a thing without whatsapp business api

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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post #34

Trusting something as private as my personal diary to 3rd party sounds like a scary idea from a privacy point of view. Imagine someone hacking this site, exposing your very private information. I wish there was something like that end-to-end encrypted. You are already using E2E encryption for the communication channel (WhatsApp). I wish there was a hookup to store the same data without breaking down the chain of encr…

Yeah I wouldn’t anyone to mess with my milk either.

(You typoed diary and I couldn’t resist ;) )

Re: Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp

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post #34

Trusting something as private as my personal diary to 3rd party sounds like a scary idea from a privacy point of view. Imagine someone hacking this site, exposing your very private information. I wish there was something like that end-to-end encrypted. You are already using E2E encryption for the communication channel (WhatsApp). I wish there was a hookup to store the same data without breaking down the chain of encr…

My thoughts exactly when all mighty Tim Cook granted us iPhone addicts a Journaling app
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