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

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Post by mahirhiro »

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…

Thank you for the feedback and trying the app!

I’ll be working on fixing this :). Unfortunately I didn’t bother tested with the SE, only the 11 onwards, lesson learned.

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

dreadnip wrote: post #44
nullbyte808 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The whole website was prompted. You can tell by the overload of emoji's on the page and every section having cards with hover effects. It's classic LLM design.

Funnily enough, while I definitely prompted but finding other website designs I liked and color schemes. I specifically wanted the hover effects because I love quirky animations. On the garden in the app try holding on a flower/ seed or click on a butterfly and enjoy the Easter egg ;)

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

dolebirchwood wrote: post #85
dolebirchwood wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The avatars in the "testimonials" are all fakes by pravatar.cc, so take that into consideration. The site is bull shit.

I revisited the site and noticed that the testimonials section is now deleted. What a punk. Please do not engage with this fraudulent clown-show of an app.

Yep, that was actually a placeholder (eventually with real people, and now soon with 500 downloads!) I didn’t comment out properly hence what someone else pointed out with the html commenting. Mistakes happen and I agree I should do a better job to proof read :)

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

swaminarayan wrote: post #19

A lot of apps try to solve the “stay in touch with people” problem, but in my experience the novelty usually wears off after a while and the reminders start feeling like noise. Curious how you approached this in Poppy — did you design anything specifically to avoid reminder fatigue and make it sustainable long-term?

This is definitely a valid concern. Since I mostly built the app for myself I wanted to have 2 easy features.

1. The ability to snooze someone who I don’t feel like reaching out for a certain period of time 2. Having an easy mute global notifications option in the app and configurable per person

I was also considering the idea of grouping contacts to maybe say “hey out of these people you should reach out to someone next month”. Basically to keep you social/ in touch with someone.

I’m very open to feedback if you think folks might get tired of those too?

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

SeriousM wrote: post #12

I really appreciate this work. Yes, it's AI language and it seems it's not polished to run on every device -yet. And it does one thing really good: be there. Sounds silly, I know, but an app that tries to make the world better AT NO COST is so much more than "well, I could vibe code that myself". Thanks fellow creator of this app. Thanks for believing that this app may have an impact on the important part of our life…

Thanks mate!

I really appreciate your words! It’s been months in the marking and I’m so happy to see people also find it helpful like me!

Please let me know if you think of any cool features you’d like to see :)

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

dvt wrote: 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.

Haha thanks, that’s what the MVP is for. Although I appreciate your feedback. Even if this helps 100 other people, that’s all the validation I need.

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

patcon wrote: post #65
dvt wrote: 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

Very interesting idea! One of the features of the app is the no signup no data associated to you which has to change if I want to allow peeking into your friends garden to see “anonymous views” of their garden.

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

wincy wrote: post #15
dvt wrote: 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.

I mean, I’m a pretty ADHD guy, very in the moment, and although I sporadically invite friends or old colleagues to catch up for lunch, I mean to do it regularly, but I might forget to invite them for years at a time, so this might be good for me. I could really used an “Anki for lunch”, spaced repetition reminders for people in my Rolodex, as it were.

Please give it a good and let me know which parts don’t work for you :)

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

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Post by mahirhiro »

paulglx wrote: post #29

The AI writing is a big turn-off: if the app is crafted with the same care as the copy on the website, I'm not sure I want to trust the owner with VERY personal data like that :)

If get a chance to read the website / privacy policy you’ll find that I actually don’t have access to any data, you don’t need to sign up to begin using the app. The sales pitch is entirely privacy first :)
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