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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

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Post by colinmcd »

gravypod wrote: post #10

So 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 o…

Hi gravypod,

Good points all around. I've added an FAQ (journaljerk.com/faq.html) that addresses some of the data security points.

As for the printing and shipping, there's of course nothing we can do about that. I'm printing through IngramSpark, which was a highly automated printing pipeline. It's unlikely someone will pick up your book, especially with malicious intent. As for shipping, I'll likely use UPS or USPS Media Mail, depending on the season and pricing. I'm quite certain they don't read what they ship. But your points are well taken.

Colin

Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

gravypod wrote: post #10

So 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 o…

Journals are not just for deep dark introspection. What about journaling about things you've read, art that inspired you, things you saw in the world, things that might be significant to you in some non revealing way? If you need a totally private secure journal, there are many ways to do it. This is a different thing, surely.

Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

I see this as really good idea for people who are motivated by this kind of accountability. I think the concept of journal and the privacy of such things is kind of leading some commentors astray. I see several use cases that would not be private as such... Or at least would be private but not embarrassing. I love the sense of a finished product at stake, I personally have often been at my most effective creatively in "show must go on" deadline situations. I miiiight become a customer if I can refine my own plan for how I would use it. (eg, I'm considering a poem a day, since that is in my wheelhouse and is broad enough that even 2 words can count.)

Best of luck to you, journal jerk.

Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else

#27

Post by jamesmunns »

Hey Colin,

I really like the idea of this! I have a couple questions:

* Do you support any sort of formatting for the contents of the book? e.g. Markdown, LateX, ? Or is it all "subject": $email_title, "text": $email_body?

* Do you have any estimate on how much text fits in a 5x8 book? Does your printing service scale the width of the book based on contents? Aka, if I wrote "walked dog, ate food", every day, would I get a pamphlet? Is there some kind of upper limit?

* Do I have to buy all my cheat days up front? It seems like you could charge "absolutions", maybe even at the end, maybe something like $0.50 for non-prepaid days? It might help people throw good money after bad :)

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else

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Post by cdevs »

I love it. So far the negative feedback is privacy but for a project that isn't at a full serious company point yet why is everyone else taking it so serious? Write some funny stuff about the day it doesn't have to be a deep dark secret, if that's what you want do it on your own.

Also I enjoy the idea of mean services for procrastinators like me, if only start farm would yell at me for being late to pay my insurance would stop getting cancelled since I can't pay ahead and their site sucks ass.

Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else

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Post by fluxsauce »

dang wrote: post #8
fluxsauce wrote: post #4

The 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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Apologies, the tone was stronger than intended.

Re: Show HN: JournalJerk – In 2017, keep a journal—or else

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Post by fluxsauce »

colinmcd wrote: post #21
fluxsauce wrote: post #4

The word privacy does not appear anywhere on the site. Nope.

Hi fluxsauce, I've added an FAQ (journaljerk.com/faq.html) that addresses your point. Thanks for your comment. Colin

Thanks, and apologies for the strongly worded response. However, the FAQ does not describe the privacy of content entered in the system itself, like restrictions on copying or selling user data or content.
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