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

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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…

I'll bite:

Copy can signal that a real person spent time on the details and cared about the product. Auto-correct and speech-to-text still carry that idea.

Even boring corporate PR language communicates something. It says the company wants to project stability and predictability, which can be reassuring. Slightly awkward, unpolished copy also sends a signal. It suggests a person speaking directly off-the-cuff rather than polished corporate messaging, which some people prefer.

LLM-generated copy sends a signal too, and not always a good one. To me, it often suggests the author didn’t care enough to think carefully about the message - not even enough to edit something that came out of an LLM.

At that point it starts to feel like someone just prompted Claude to build a reminders app with no care or thought put into it, which I could do myself if I find this idea valuable at all and even personalize the hell out of it. Maybe that's an unfair first impression! But it's not a crazy one given how quickly the cost of code is approaching 0.

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

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post #56

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…

> Writing copy is painfully time consuming

I literally do not understand this sentiment. Do you not enjoy anything that takes time to do? Do you not enjoy putting time in for things that other people will look at?

> I know it'll write better copy than me

If this is the case I am desperately pleading with you to please read and write more. If you think the copy on this page is passable, let alone good, please read more.

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

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post #52

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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..."

Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.

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

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post #11

"Poppy turns your contacts into a living garden. Gentle reminders, zero guilt."—bleh, at least write your own taglines :/ This is a neat idea that has been tried about 300 times over, but since it's contingent on already being cognizant of keeping up with relationships, people that install it aren't going to people that need to be using it.

Makes me think about a neat feature possibility -- a constraint that means having a garden means others can see into it in some sense, just like a real life garden in your yard. A garden demonstrates to others your care and attention toward it

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

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post #56

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…

Do you have it generate fake people with fake photos and reviews too?

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

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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..."

Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.

"Quietly" is another watermark word I've noticed lately (though not in TFA to be clear).

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

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post #51

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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 ?

I recommend keeping it simple. The Obsidian "Bases" feature is a good fit for this if you don't want to go deep w plugins and DIY (which is also viable but has more learning curve and overhead).

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

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post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Writing copy is painfully time consuming I literally do not understand this sentiment. Do you not enjoy anything that takes time to do? Do you not enjoy putting time in for things that other people will look at? > I know it'll write better copy than me If this is the case I am desperately pleading with you to please read and write more. If you think the copy on this page is passable, let alone good, please read mor…

I like building apps, I don't necessarily like writing the same boilerplate BS for a necessary landing page for every app I make.

Again, I'm not saying no one should write marketing copy, if that's your thing, go for it. Take your time, wordsmith. But for others they don't enjoy it or are not particularly good at it (i.e. English isn't someones first language). So let's be accepting and get over it.

> If this is the case I am desperately pleading with you to please read and write more.

Please stop moralizing.

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