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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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To help drive home the privacy angle, you might consider open-sourcing it and also making it available on F-Droid. Also, why does it say "in-app purchases"? If this is a simple calendar I don't see why any purchasable extras should be necessary. (While many in the HN crowd lack the requisite equipment to make use of your project, we do have girlfriends, wives, sisters, and daughters who might benefit from a privacy-r…

In-app purchases: You can buy another theme if you want. There is no need to do that - the whole functionality is available anyway. I thought it would be nice to at least have the opportunity to make some money from it... I haven't thought about open-sourcing it... Maybe I'll think about it...

You can always pop it on GitHub with no license. You retain copyright, nobody can do anything with it. Would enable users to report bugs there in the Issues area, or you could make a basic GitHub Pages site, or there's a wiki or discussion forum.

If you did add a license, users could submit PRs of bug fixes or new features. If you don't have a lot of users it probably would get very little traffic and so not become burdensome. (And you can always ignore it... Not ideal, but life comes first)

If you care about privacy and want to have some fun with the license idea, you can add an Ethical Source license, so anyone who uses your code has to comply with a code of ethics. (https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/) Maybe a license that says you cannot use this if you actively work against women's reproductive health/freedoms?

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the status of trustworthy reproducible build systems for deploying open source code to apps on Android?

well, zero. just like apple. since there's no convenient way for the user the validate anything they are installing other than "the app store said so"

This is a response to a question of Google Play’s reproducibility which is moot because of the distribution mechanism. *Android* in general does have reproducibility especially from third party repos like F-droid.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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Other options that are open source include: drip. https://dripapp.org/ Bluemoon https://gitlab.com/ngrob/bluemoon-android https://www.nilsgrob.ch/work/bluemoon Periodical https://arnowelzel.de/en/projects/periodical Log28 https://github.com/wildeyedskies/log28

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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The comments on this post are interesting: 1. Some insist that the source code be made public. 2. Some insist that there be no in-app purchases. 3. Some insist that there be no analytics whatsoever. Each of the above has some legitimate reason. However, do privacy-focused apps need to play by different set of rules? If so, what special monetization models would make sense to folks on here? #AskingForAFriend

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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

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post #61

Great work and not to hijack – are there catalogs of “privacy focused” apps that don’t collect data or make remote requests? I would love a “ Kosher” badge like OU that tells me it’s a simple app (like yours) that provides utility without snooping

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