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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 jsilence » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

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,…

That is a really nice idea and anybody on a network that allows drafts could adopt this on a personal level.

I hope this usage pattern gains some traction.

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

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Post by jv_dh » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:00 PM UTC

A friend of mine built something similar: https://nutshell.social/ He calls it a slowcial network.

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

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Post by jillianschuller » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:59 PM UTC

taurath wrote: post #49

nowherebeen wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t see anything particularly wrong with that as long as their business model isn’t ad based. Plus, it’s their MVP, so it’s probably a legal template to protect themselves more than their actual intent.

Agree it’s likely a legal template but it’s a bit like bringing a dead canary into a coal mine - normally there might be a warning that there’s a gas leak but now there definitely will not be

Appreciate the feedback here. Was a legal template for the MVP (as you hinted at above), and not our intention to leave any uncertainty re data privacy.

We've amended the policy, and added this statement so things are clear.

Sundayy does not, and never will, rent or sell your personal data to any third party for any purpose (including advertising or marketing purposes) nor do we, or will we, permit targeted advertising on our Service. We only share personal information with third party service providers under limited circumstances as described in the section below.

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

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Post by jillianschuller » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

frombody wrote: post #44

tr1ll10nb1ll wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's not particularly great but isn't that what other social media networks do as well? Assuming you do use other social media.

To me the appeal of this product is that the intent seems more personal. The types of interactions that you only want to share with a small crowd or a few friends. All that goes out the window if you're just going to sell all my personal thoughts that you want me to share with my friends.

100% agree. Our intent is to be far more intentional, personal, and less attention hijacky than FB. Yes, that intention would go out the window if we did what they did re user data.

We've amended the privacy policy by adding this statement to make things far more explicit;

Sundayy does not, and never will, rent or sell your personal data to any third party for any purpose (including advertising or marketing purposes) nor do we, or will we, permit targeted advertising on our Service. We only share personal information with third party service providers under limited circumstances as described in the section below.