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Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp Wrapped 2022
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.
- hackernewds 4y agoThe data is not stored but are the results stored?
- Ecio78 4y agoyou can check the code https://github.com/OurChatStory/OurChatStory-Web https://github.com/OurChatStory/OurChatStory-Web
- RealCodingOtaku 4y agoIt is impossible for one to ensure that the same code is running on the server.
- atlaspod 4y agoExactly. Not touching that.
- anshulagx 4y agoThe 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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- theblazehen 4y agoGetting CORS issues on my end. Response body is not available to scripts (Reason: CORS Missing Allow Origin)
- mattharbord 4y agoThat'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!
- anshulagx 4y agoThese feedbacks are very actionable. Thank you, will work on these
- RealCodingOtaku 4y agoDo 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.
- srvmshr 4y agoThis 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.
- anshulagx 4y agoI thought a lot about privacy while building this. Tbh nothing can be done to satisfy all the critics but I have tried to do all I can. That includes open sourcing the code and not having a database at all. It doesn't collect Metadata as well.
- zvr 4y agoConsider submitting the source code GitHub repo instead of some running service. In the repo, have example exported data that are used as input and generated output.
- anshulagx 4y agoAs mentioned the code is open source. The link to the repo is in footer of the site. The backend repo contains a sample response in JSON format.
- alexandertech 4y agocool.I shared it with my peers.
- oefrha 4y agoHalf of the top level comments are green accounts praising the service, making what’s already a sketchy concept even more suspect. Edit: Interestingly, one was even deleted after this post.
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- slowwriter 4y agoAll warning lights are flashing. Don't use this.
- scoobydoo_17 4y agoSays connection failed?
- anshulagx 4y agoI know that you all are concerned about privacy, believe me I would be too. But be assured that none of your chats are stored anywhere. In fact, we don't even deploy a db.
- alexandertech 4y agoi am new account relax guys.