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

#1

Post by mahirhiro » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 3:56 AM UTC

I built Poppy as a side project to help people keep in touch more intentionally. Would love feedback on onboarding, reminders, and overall UX. Happy to answer questions.

Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships
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#2

Post by paulhebert » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:29 AM UTC

This looks lovely! I've been meaning to do a better job of calling friends and family. I'll try it out!

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Post by dddddaviddddd » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:46 AM UTC

It would be nice if the homepage loaded more gracefully with Javascript disabled -- as it is, it's completely blank without JS.

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#4

Post by jonners00 » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:46 AM UTC

This is great, but also not well suited (in terms of visuals, name, language) to some of the audiences that need it most. A version that resonates more with middle aged men would be great. Oak or something.

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#5

Post by bahador » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:47 AM UTC

Is this a CRM for your friends? FRM? FriendsForce?

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#6

Post by seism » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:48 AM UTC

Beautiful. I am a little worried that you’ll soon lose interest and stop supporting the app without a business model. Do you plan to at least get sponsored, e.g. by some kind of foundation, like ones that are behind mental health initiatives?

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#7

Post by zlies » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:49 AM UTC

Nice Idea! I noticed a bug during contact import. The month of birthdays are shifted -1 :)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:51 AM UTC

seism wrote: post #6

Beautiful. I am a little worried that you’ll soon lose interest and stop supporting the app without a business model. Do you plan to at least get sponsored, e.g. by some kind of foundation, like ones that are behind mental health initiatives?

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Post by adi2907 » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 5:52 AM UTC

This is definitely very useful, and something i've been thinking of to build myself. A personal CRM. Issue is when I see something like this - where it will take me around half hour to figure out - while i can vibe code something in an hour which will do much more and personalize it for me, I hold back on trying it out.

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#10

Post by jamilton » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 6:00 AM UTC

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 seem to have trouble with it, I assume they're assuming a larger screen.