[HN Gopher] Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed...
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Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked
once a week
Author : jillianschuller
Score : 100 points
Date : 2021-01-20 17:00 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sundayy.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sundayy.app)
| __soter__ wrote:
| I really like this idea and could see it being great to share
| with family and friends, except for the missing support for web
| or android. Everyone I would want to connect with on something
| like this all have a mix of devices and this being apple only
| would limit that sharing to just a few of them.
| ghiculescu wrote:
| There's a web version! https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up
|
| Android version in review with google as we speak (I built it).
| marcod wrote:
| Android version planned?
|
| love the idea!
| ghiculescu wrote:
| In review with Google right now. In the meantime there's a web
| version! https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up (if you sign up
| we will email you when android is live)
| ep103 wrote:
| app only?
|
| I can be friends with whomever, but only see reflections from
| specific people or groups?
|
| I've pretty much stopped using most social media, because the
| level of noise that is put into my feed (ads, manipulative
| "news", etc) drops the signal to noise ratio and I have no
| ability to curtail it.
| jillianschuller wrote:
| Web version too, my hubby linked just above. Android coming in
| the next week or so.
|
| Everyone you are buddies with can see your reflections, and you
| can see theirs. It's best for family and close friends :)
|
| It's all signal, no noise. Sundayy is the only social network I
| use now. Removed all the others from my phone :)
| reckter wrote:
| As this is iOS only, it would really benefit from "Log in with
| Apple"! As with all social networks: People only use it if their
| friends are using it, whom intern have the same problem. This
| would be great if it would incoroprate automatic recaps of post
| on other platforms, if a Contact does not have sundayy.
|
| Autmaticly generate A summary from their instagram / facebook for
| example.
| lucjac wrote:
| Amazing idea & execution! I'm running a self reflection journal
| app (https://mindhappy.page.link/app) and had been thinking about
| building something like this for couples. Glad to see it already
| exists now :)
| itoprocess wrote:
| Jill invited me to this app about 3 months ago, and it's helped
| me kick my social media addiction.
|
| I wanted to stay on social media to keep up with important stuff
| going on with my closer friends and family. Engagements, holiday
| snaps, birthdays, ect. Basically, I had Fomo.
|
| The problem was that I was spending an hour a day scrolling
| through, mostly ads and low quality news on my feed. I think my
| last actual post was over 5 years ago.
|
| With Sundayy I know that if anything actually important happens I
| will find out about it on Sunday. The delayed gratification is
| refreshing, in a world where everything else is just a click
| away.
|
| The other benefit is I now have an extra 7 hours a week that I
| didn't spend mindlessly scrolling.
| wyxuan wrote:
| Great looking UI for what seems really new but just a few asks:
|
| 1. Can there be a way to see which contacts in my contact book
| have accounts?
|
| 2. the add profile pic feature just isn't working at all for me
|
| 3. There should be a username system where you can set custom
| usernames
| artificialLimbs wrote:
| Beautiful idea, app, and page, but from the Privacy Policy:
|
| >We may share Your personal information in the following
| situations: With Service Providers, For business transfers, With
| Affiliates, With business partners
|
| I can't get down with that.
| s0rta wrote:
| Hey just downloaded this! Pretty stoked to try it out. One
| question, is there a history of your weeks? I'd love to be able
| to look back on reflections, or a way to export your weekly
| reflection if you don't have the server resources
| jillianschuller wrote:
| Funny you should ask as we were just talking about building
| this!
|
| We are thinking that on Sunday when reading others reflections,
| you'll be able to view "your story", which will be that full
| history (currently you can see your reflections too, but just
| for the week).
|
| Glad to hear you've signed up! We will commit to having this
| built before this Sunday so you can use it going forward :P
| s0rta wrote:
| Thank you for the response! And if y'all start up a patreon
| or something for donations to pay for hosting in the early
| stages, so down to support something like this
| ghiculescu wrote:
| Best way you can support us is to invite a buddy :)
|
| We are just running on a 2 Heroku dynos so it's cheap for
| now. High hosting costs would be an exciting future
| problem!
| george-in-sd wrote:
| Great idea. The only the thing I enjoy about FB is seeing updates
| from friends and family. Will give it a try
| [deleted]
| tomaszs wrote:
| Please don't sell it to Facebook when it will kick off
| jillianschuller wrote:
| Hey all,
|
| A year ago I deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone. I
| didn't like the attention hijacking, or the never-ending feed
| surfing, or how they made me feel.
|
| Looked around for a more minimalist platform I could use to stay
| connected to family and friends. Couldn't find one, so started
| building one.
|
| Sundayy is a social network centered around mindful reflection.
| It is designed to be checked just once a week, on Sunday.
|
| _Mon - Sat:_ You're prompted to slow down, reflect, and write
| about what the day has brought you. Once you reflect, that's it.
| Reflections are kept secret. There are no feeds to check.
|
| _Sunday:_ Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look
| back on your friend's and family's week as they lived it; day by
| day, in their own words.
|
| My husband and I have been building Sundayy together while using
| it with close family and friends. Has become a nice ritual to
| read reflections over a tea on Sunday morning, then call
| family/friends from there.
| voisin wrote:
| How do these two quotes relate? They are kept secret for the
| week but then revealed all at once?
|
| > Reflections are kept secret.
|
| > Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on
| your friend's and family's week...
| tryitnow wrote:
| Yes, this is very confusing. Some people could read this and
| mistakenly assume that their reflections are always kept
| secret (because they didn't read the second sentence).
|
| It might be better to change it to "Reflection are kept
| secret until Sunday."
|
| This might seem like a little issue, but it's not. All it
| takes is one over eager person to join the app in haste, not
| really read how it works, post some embarrassing secret
| thinking it will be kept secret and then become mortified
| when it's revealed. Then they will raise a storm online and
| your app will be known as something that causes drama rather
| than alleviates it.
| trhaynes wrote:
| I wouldn't use the word secret at all in this case, frankly
| wccrawford wrote:
| I think they mean that they're hidden until the next Sunday
| after they were posted.
| ghiculescu wrote:
| That's right! Every Sundayy you can read everyone's
| reflections on that day only. Then they are gone forever.
| It's very whimsical :)
| mempko wrote:
| I love this idea but I don't own an iOS or Android device. Will
| there be any effort to make a web version?
| ghiculescu wrote:
| There's a web version! https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up
| primitivesuave wrote:
| This is a great idea and the UI is beautiful.
|
| I had a similar personal project a while back to just send out
| emails to people with my "social update" on a
| weekly/monthly/yearly basis. People would opt-in to the email
| and select the frequency from a form on my personal website,
| and on my end I would get a reminder to send out my weekly
| update. It ended up being a bit buggy and a hassle to manage,
| and I'm planning to rewrite it soon. I bet if you built this
| feature into the app, you could organically grow the user base,
| as users would be able to still send Sunday reflections to
| certain emails and that email could have a link to download the
| app.
|
| I think the audience for an app like this is people like me,
| who want to free themselves from social media altogether. I'm
| thrilled to see people working on the dopamine addiction that
| Twitter/Facebook/etc feed on, and wish you the best of luck on
| this venture!
|
| Also, if you're looking for some free serverless code to power
| the idea I mentioned above, let me know how I should get that
| to you.
| jillianschuller wrote:
| Thank you for the kind words!
|
| That is a very good idea re emailing the weekly update.
| Ironically we started with it being email based, then
| switched to the in app "buddies" (addable via a buddy code).
| Switched because people didn't have an immediate email list,
| but definitely want to add this back in!
|
| Thank you for the feedback, if you give Sundayy a go please
| let me know what you think - jill@hey.com :)
| eitland wrote:
| Brilliant idea! Can you say a few words about how you will
| protect user data? (What I really want is I want every
| developer of any such app tied to the mast like Odysseus
| because we've seen what the sirens song of growth based
| investments from venture capital funds can do even to nice and
| smart people line the WhatsApp founders ;-)
| jillianschuller wrote:
| We have thought about monetizing down the line, but on
| principle I'm completely opposed to any model re ads/user
| data. We'd treat it like a tool you pay a one off price for.
|
| Data privacy is something we can be more explicit about
| (thank you for highlighting this - will work on it). Re
| developers, it's just my husband and I at the moment, and
| we're just building it because we want it to exist.
|
| If you want to email me any questions/concerns, I'm
| jill@hey.com :)
| itoprocess wrote:
| Can't agree more. If you are wondering how much main stream
| social apps are sharing, you can see a summary at this link.
| https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list.
| Mine has over 2,000 websites that are sharing data back.
| secfirstmd wrote:
| Interesting idea.
|
| But worth remembering. A huge chunk of the world works on
| Sunday. E.g Middle East has its week days Sunday to Thursday.
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