Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022

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Post by anshulagx » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 8:26 AM UTC

Insights like who text's first, who text's more and many more can be generated in a fun story format. No data is stored and the code is open source. Would love to get feedback and feature requests.

Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022
ourchatstory.co

Re: Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 8:37 AM UTC

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Post by mattharbord » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 9:46 AM UTC

That's cool - I don't text that much (apparently in the lowest 2%!) but it was fun to see. The word cloud was great, as were the graphs.

Feedback wise:

The graphs didn't use as much y axis as they could - i.e I think I had a max value of like 150 in one graph, but the axis went to 400.

Other than that, the onboarding video references ourchatstory.com rather than .co; which isn't a problem if you're already on the domain I guess!

Good work!

Re: Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022

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Post by hackernewds » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 9:49 AM UTC

The data is not stored but are the results stored?

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Post by Ecio78 » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 9:54 AM UTC

hackernewds wrote: post #4

The data is not stored but are the results stored?

you can check the code https://github.com/OurChatStory/OurChatStory-Web

Re: Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022

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Post by RealCodingOtaku » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 9:55 AM UTC

Do not upload plaintext personal-anything to a stranger's computer.

These things should be run locally, in your own system, after pulling the repo, verifying, and building it yourself.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022

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Post by RealCodingOtaku » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 9:57 AM UTC

Ecio78 wrote: post #5

hackernewds wrote: post #4

The data is not stored but are the results stored?

you can check the code https://github.com/OurChatStory/OurChatStory-Web

It is impossible for one to ensure that the same code is running on the server.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022

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Post by anshulagx » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 10:00 AM UTC

hackernewds wrote: post #4

The data is not stored but are the results stored?

The data is no stored. Infact we don't even have a DB connected to the app lol. We do log some data points for product improvement but that is not persisted.

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Post by atlaspod » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 10:00 AM UTC

RealCodingOtaku wrote: post #7

Ecio78 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can check the code https://github.com/OurChatStory/OurChatStory-Web

It is impossible for one to ensure that the same code is running on the server.

Exactly. Not touching that.

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Post by srvmshr » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 10:01 AM UTC

This is a privacy nightmare. Maybe its a cool project to think for OP, but these are real chats of people and the whole idea of E2E encryption & private nature of information is defeated the moment one indulges in such a webapp. There is no guarantee how much PII is retained on the server.

Edit: Looking at all the green accounts praising the post, I think @dang should check if these involve a voting ring.