Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
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Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
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Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#2I don't see anything at the site about who is "really" doing this, and am more than a bit concerned someone could spend January collecting $29+ subscriptions from folks with New Years resolutions, and then depend on folks forgetting about it come December. Particularly among those who drop the habit...
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#3You don't display any details at all about the final product. Always refer to it as a "beautiful journal" but fail to picture anywhere.
If anyone was even interested in the premise in the end they want the deliverable... So show it.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#4The word privacy does not appear anywhere on the site. Nope.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#5I don't see anything at the site about who is "really" doing this, and am more than a bit concerned someone could spend January collecting $29+ subscriptions from folks with New Years resolutions, and then depend on folks forgetting about it come December. Particularly among those who drop the habit...
Hi Ewan,
I definitely understand your concerns. Here's some answers:
I'm doing this. My name is Colin McDonnell, my email is colinmcd94@gmail.com. I'm not a scammer.
The service definitely defies some expectations, since its entire goal is to induce a given behavior through (mostly) negative reinforcement. Clearly I (that is, "The Jerk") benefits if people drop the habit. That's part of the incentive. It's why the service is personified as a Jerk...you're not supposed to like him and you certainly don't want him to have your money.
Also remember, there's a positive reinforcement too, in the form of the end-of-year book. And $29 is a GREAT price for a custom hardbound book with shipping. Here's a comparable service that charges $79: https://www.storyworth.com/holidays. We expect to make the vast majority of profit from the cheat day markup.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#6The word privacy does not appear anywhere on the site. Nope.
Hi fluxsauce,
That is a great point.
As you can see, the site is fully HTTPS secured. The Stripe endpoint is also cryptographically secure.
Naturally the server has to deal with your entries in plaintext form to print the book, but everything is totally automated. No human will every see anything you print.
I use Firebase as a database. The database can't be read from or written to by ANYONE OR ANYTHING but our authenticated servers. (For Firebase users, there is a blanket {.read:false, .write:false} on all locations).
Thanks for voicing your concerns. I'll be sure to include this information somewhere on the site ASAP.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#7You don't display any details at all about the final product. Always refer to it as a "beautiful journal" but fail to picture anywhere. If anyone was even interested in the premise in the end they want the deliverable... So show it.
Hi CaveTech,
Great point with a simple answer. I don't have any print samples yet. Turns out the Printing On Demand companies I was working with enjoy taking of several weeks on either side of Christmas. I'm pretty miffed about this myself, frankly.
To further put your mind at ease, I have extensive experience working with printing-on-demand and dropshipping services. I've built out complete pipeline integrations with IngramSpark, Ingram LightningSource, and ZenPrint from scratch. If you keep the journal, you will get your book. Guaranteed.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#8The word privacy does not appear anywhere on the site. Nope.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, especially when responding to another user's work. Asking a polite question would have more than sufficed.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#9Read the first two words of the page.
Thought "fuck you".
Closed the page.
Try and make something actually useful.
Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else
#10So you want someone to pay you 27 bucks to take their deepest darkest secretes, all of their lifes troubles, and store them on your servers of unknown levels of security then you want to print that out (automatically revealing it's contents to at least one person printing everything), then finally you want to ship it through an unspecified postal service.
Yea maybe I'm paranoid but I don't think I'd be writing much other then "had coffee" or "walked dog". I'd definetly not say who I'm in love with, what I'm working on, how my social life is going, what experiments I'm working. Sadly that's exactly the kind of contents that you want in a journal.
Edit: My bad, 29 dollars, not 27.