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Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

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Word of advice: your usage of immature expressions very much lowers the professionalism of your product and how much I’d look to trust it. In the comments here, phrases such as ‘user starts hating YourNote for some reason’ and ‘they go rekt’ are two such examples.

Characterising the language you don't agree with as "immature" doesn't reflect well on you.

"rekt" is immature and has nothing to do with agreement.

Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

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I just switched to Standardnote recently and have been liking it so far - they are privacy centric as well, making all notes encrypted. What is the main benefit of this over Standardnote? I only have a few notes in there so if I do switch now is the time to do it...

Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

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This sounds like a great idea. If this product is free and takes off, how do you plan to monetize the website?

I can ask users for a one-time charge to sign up on the app. Also, maybe I can add some "pro" features which I am unsure of, at the moment. Not really sure to be honest, let's see.

Are you planning to take a shot at getting funding through this Blockstack "App Mining" program (https://app.co/mining)? If so:

My suggestion would be to put this in a FAQ somewhere. I'd imagine to the great majority of people this wouldn't be a big deal, but it would help explain the motivation and, for some people, evaluate trustworthiness.

Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

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Loading takes 15 seconds, Blockstack account is required, which is not what I would want to. Maybe this app puts users' data first, but but the user.

Haha, I am sure I can optimize the loading time. A blockstack account is required for reliably managing the auth. It's much better than relying on Google for it or coding one of our own IMHO.

why?

Googles pretty damn good at auth... why is this better?

Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

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All the things this program claims to solve are problems it created by being something other than just an actual notepad application running on your local computer.

I think this is only true if (a) Your local computer is part of an existing secure, cloud-based personal solution for sharing generic files, and (b) You have note-taking capabilities to work on a common note-taking file format across the devices in (a).

I think you suggest a point, though, that it seems that it would be ideal to have a general secure and accessible file storage implementation, with specific apps where needed.

And personally, along the lines of what you're saying, I'm actually more concerned about finding a really good, local note-taking method than even involving the cloud or de-centralized Internet in some way.

Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

#47
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Word of advice: your usage of immature expressions very much lowers the professionalism of your product and how much I’d look to trust it. In the comments here, phrases such as ‘user starts hating YourNote for some reason’ and ‘they go rekt’ are two such examples.

Characterising the language you don't agree with as "immature" doesn't reflect well on you.

Please provide a more appropriate word to describe those phrases. They’re definitely unprofessional- but unprofessional doesn’t quite fit here. Also- nothing about disagreeing with here. There’s language that is appropriate in some contexts and that isn’t quite appropriate elsewhere. In essence, your comment is seemingly argumentative for the sake of it.

Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

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That is true, and the only way to fix that is when users see the code and run it themselves (I plan to open source very soon). Apart from that, I don't think I can provide any other guarantees. No open source project can. If they are discovered doing something bad, they go rekt. That's how it usually is. So what's the point here? Should I not have a line like this in my copy? Another thing that can be done is that I…

It is true that this issue exists with every software. I wanted to point it out anyhow because it often is overlooked. Not sure about the line in your copy. Maybe it is possible to state more clearly what the actual privacy and security mechanisms.

You are right. It should be explained in detail somewhere as lots of people had questions regarding it on HN.

Re: Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first

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All the things this program claims to solve are problems it created by being something other than just an actual notepad application running on your local computer.

Obviously, local note-taking is the best and that's what I used to do when I used VSCodeNotebook.

https://github.com/aviaryan/VSCodeNotebook

But if you want to access your notes on different devices (mobile phones for example), that's where something like YourNote comes handy.

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