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Alex

Privacy friendly tools/makers?

Looking for any of the below:

  • privacy friendly tools
  • privacy focused makers
  • privacy friendly product lists

I personally am working on Portabella (https://portabella.io), which is privacy friendly project management. But I'm always looking to see what's out there.

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Ivan Mir

If you use Mac, I have a completely private automatic time and productivity tracker – Qbserve. Think RescueTime but all your activity history is stored locally.

Promo for the Makerlog community: DM me and I'll send you a free license. 🎁

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Rahul Tarak

Been building modfy.video as a privacy first platform.

It transcodes video within your browser using web assembly

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Alex Author

Wow that's cool

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Wassim

Hey Alex.

I'm currently working on Bannerswipe and I plan to keep the product privacy friendly. Check it out and tell me if you got any questions.

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Alex Author

Nice!

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An

Nice! I'm working on shrtco.de, a privacy friendly URL Shortener!

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Alex Author

Cool, love your FAQ as well. Had all kinds of questions but they were all answered

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An

@AlexHq Glad you like it!! :D

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Carl Poppa 🛸

If you're into statistics, there's Simple Analytics

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Alex Author

Nice yeah I do know of them. Privacy first analytics is definitely a contested space

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Wouter Dijkstra

If I could just add that I think it sometimes take way more work to not be privacy-focused/-friendly?

Crazy stuff.

Personally been developing Covisitor - No tracking, no nothing. No one sees your data.

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Steven Abadie

I'm just getting started working on Browse Me Later. My goal is to provide a more privacy focused reading list service. Other than baking in privacy into the TOS to not share data or sell aggregate data, considering how else to reinforce the importance.

How are you all considering privacy in your product?

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Boris Tane

hey Steven! we're making relatively similar products but aimed at two different use cases. I'm making Bkmark, a personal knowledge base; and it has been very tempting to go the recommendation route, but I am refraining from it.

on a previous mobile project, I had implemented encryption where the key stayed on the user's device (mobile phone) and only with the key they could unlock their content. the key was a passphrase they entered and it was hashed locally on their device. you could look at something similar to further enforce privacy in your product.

and by the way, I like what you're doing and I subscribed for the beta!

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Steven Abadie

Hi @BorisTane! It's great to hear I'm not the only one considering the concern of recommendations in the current bookmarking products.

The encryption is an interesting possibility I'll have to ponder on. Currently I'm expecting to keep Browse Me Later very small and niche, focused only on email digests. There could be a possibility of encrypting the email where the user email provider supports it.

Thanks for the signup, I've also signed up for Bkmark and look forward to checking it out soon!

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