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Re: Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

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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.

That’s what cloud backups are for…

Re: Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

#74

It 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…

Your comment makes me wonder if something like 1Password would be a better candidate for tracking household goods. You could trust it as much as you're willing to trust it with passwords.

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.

Re: Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

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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.

Not yet, at least. Meth heads of the future? Quite possibly.

Re: Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

#76
Funny coincidence to see this. As a still-somewhat-new homeowner, I've faced similar pain points. When did I change the furnace filters... and what size are they, anyway? What was the model number of the downstairs faucet aerator? Who did I call last summer when the AC went out?

But 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!

Re: Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you can select the save location for the database file, nothing says you cannot use a Dropbox folder or some other cloud file sharing service.

Re: Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software

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Great 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…

In the old days this would be a pc "program" on a person's home computer and all this data sharing concern moot. Why this database madness? All that's needed is a simple encrypted cloud backup. Harrumph.
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