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Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by edelans »

wolvoleo wrote: post #41
bobbiechen wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure if it's top 3, but I use Monica https://www.monicahq.com/ which does advertise itself as a personal CRM. I certainly underutilize its features but things like birthday reminders + a place for a few notes (where do they live again? who's their partner?) is nice

I just put that stuff into obsidian here. Only thing I miss are the birthday reminders but there's probably a plugin for that :)

oh interesting, I never thought about using my obsidian vault for that.

Can you share a bit more about how you structure this and how you would recommend getting started ?

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by biofox »

nullbyte808 wrote: post #14
jamilton wrote: post #10

Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free. Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps…

How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.

"Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation."

"No feed, no doomscrolling — just intention."

"Not your whole address book — just the ones you'd hate to lose touch with"

"You care deeply—you're just terrible at follow-through."

"You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..."

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by rigrassm »

biofox wrote: post #52
nullbyte808 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.

"Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation." "No feed, no doomscrolling — just intention." "Not your whole address book — just the ones you'd hate to lose touch with" "You care deeply—you're just terrible at follow-through." "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..."

"You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..."

Well shit, that solves everything! What a revelation -_-

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by lelanthran »

nullbyte808 wrote: post #14
jamilton wrote: post #10

Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free. Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps…

How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.

Well, if someone can't bother to write something, why should anyone bother to read it?

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by AdrianB1 »

I am probably too old for this, so I don't understand the purpose of this app. As life goes on, old relationships are either maintained naturally or fade away, new ones replace them, etc. If I don't remember or feel like calling someone, I don't. The only thing I need an app for, is to keep track of birthdays, any calendar can do that.

Genuine question: for someone who finds this useful, how and why?

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by bko »

jamilton wrote: post #10

Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free. Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps…

Writing copy is painfully time consuming. AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. I know it'll write better copy than me.

Terminally online people need to get over this weird aversion to anything generated w/ help of AI. Do you have similar misgivings, like "this guy obviously used auto correct", or "he's using speech to text, I'm not reading anything unless its hand-written"

Get over it. It's here, it's useful, judge the product on its merits. I get if you see spam email messages that are overly tailored and ignoring them because the person obv didn't do the work. But this dude created a free app that looks pretty cool, maybe he didn't want to spend another few hours to create a pretty standard boilerplate website with app information.

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

bko wrote: post #56
jamilton wrote: post #10

Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free. Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps…

Writing copy is painfully time consuming. AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. I know it'll write better copy than me. Terminally online people need to get over this weird aversion to anything generated w/ help of AI. Do you have similar misgivings, like "this guy obviously used auto correct", or "he's using speech to text, I'm not reading anything unless it…

> AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators.

Sorry, no. It doesn’t do it better. It’s like chewing cardboard. All fluff, not a lot of actual well-presented information.

AI is also not a great communicator- it learned from people, which you said are not great.

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by endymion-light »

bko wrote: post #56
jamilton wrote: post #10

Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free. Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps…

Writing copy is painfully time consuming. AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. I know it'll write better copy than me. Terminally online people need to get over this weird aversion to anything generated w/ help of AI. Do you have similar misgivings, like "this guy obviously used auto correct", or "he's using speech to text, I'm not reading anything unless it…

THere's a level of AI generated copy that makes the website look unpolished. I think it's right to critique, in the same way i'd critique an obvious bootstrap css website.

There's loads of factors that may implicitly turn someone off using an app, and I think it's important to let the OP know a critical one.

Re: Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

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Post by elicash »

jonners00 wrote: post #4

This is great, but also not well suited (in terms of visuals, name, language) to some of the audiences that need it most. A version that resonates more with middle aged men would be great. Oak or something.

This is a bit off-topic and not a direct response to your very reasonable suggestion, but I always find it weird and uncomfortable when companies go over-the-top on the gender stereotypes -- even as someone whose interests admittedly overlap with those very stereotypes.

For example, barber shops that serve bourbon. I'm a fan of bourbon, but it almost feels like they're calling me out for being "basic!" Or I feel like I'm being targeted like those Axe body spray commercials thought they were targeting me when I was a kid in the 90s.

Anyway, I'm not anti-oak, or having it be a farm or something. But also, flowers can be nice.

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