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This is why I would never trust a hosted web app to do something like this. I fully expect my house to last much longer than any such company. I’d want an app I run on my computer with data that I can export to something time lasting like CSV/PDF/etc.
Good luck accessing that data after a fire. Would be better to have the insurance company store it.
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#73Your app looks great, what's your tech stack/any design system you use?
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#74It looks interesting. I congratulate you for making it. It will be a cold day in Hell before I tell some random corporation the detailed contents of my home which may or may not get data-leaked, sold to another company (yeah! yeah! you pinky promise to "never" do that), partners with external service providers to either sell me something I don't want, data mine what I have or use it to determine if I am a credit risk…
I imagine clicking "New Item > Catalog" (which could create an in-vault Sqlite database). Perhaps they could also build a plugin system for third parties to provide nice-looking, domain-specific front-end UIs for tracking various types of things in 1Password.
Vaults can be up to 1GB in size -- more than enough for personal text data and relatively small images.
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correct. all it takes is one meth head telling buddies that it's the google for free electronics -- a perfect pivot for when they go public and sell the data further down the line, might as well just SaaS that part now.
I don't think meth heads will be buying obscure datasets and sifting through them to find the optimal houses to burglarize.
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#76But like other commenters, my ideal solution would be a physical book! You have none of the privacy issues, no subscription, and no reliance on a vendor that might not exist decades from now. I searched for home maintenance logs, but I couldn't find one that was very much better than a spiral-bound stack of copier paper.
I'm thinking of making one myself. If anyone else interested in buying a copy or helping make it a reality, email in profile. I still want one!
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#77It's neither open-source nor self-hosted. Pass.
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This is why I would never trust a hosted web app to do something like this. I fully expect my house to last much longer than any such company. I’d want an app I run on my computer with data that I can export to something time lasting like CSV/PDF/etc.
Good luck accessing that data after a fire. Would be better to have the insurance company store it.
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#80Great idea, but it seems like Facebook for your personal items. Brief look at the privacy policy: However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes. ... We may disclose personal information to: ... * our employees, contr…