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.
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.
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 ;-)
If you're going to reach out anyway, couldn't you call them without checking the feed? I guess I don't see how this is different than just unfollowing your Facebook friends and going to look at their profiles on Sunday.
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.
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 like the idea, but without privacy I would never share my thoughts and feelings in social network. Even though I find a important psychological point is missed in the concept.
On behalf of a psychological viewpoint, every human tells 2 narratives. One to belong to a group, seeking an image he wants to be seen as, and, an inner one, reflecting on behaviours with utmost honesty to one self in order to mature\grow.
Sharing personal insights while knowing anyone could read your thoughts later on, twists your notes in a misleading direction, I find. This kept me from journaling 20 years in fear someone could neglect myself on behalf of my notes\points\feelings\ideas written down.
In this high speed, working environment today, we rarely take time to reflect, and when we do, taking notes, shouldn't be a privacy lost way to do that.
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Some months ago I started with 2 friends regular and self-honest check'ins. Every one does daily journaling for him\herself and only presents insights about themselves, not to proof anything to the group, nor getting something out, bit to have the courage to speak out to oneselfs with courage what new viewpoint has been gathered lately on one selfs behaviour.
Start that with that.
Pick beloved ones nearby, ask them if they are interested in having such an interview, encouraging oneself and others and you start maturing (I find myself). No online social network needed.
I don’t see anything particularly wrong with that as long as their business model isn’t ad based. Plus, it’s their MVP, so it’s probably a legal template to protect themselves more than their actual intent.
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.
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 :)
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.
Love this idea! I’d love to be able to include one photo a day.
In Vermont there’s a very popular social network called Front Porch Forum that collects posts and only issues them once a day, it seems like adding time delays and eliminating fast replies is a good circuit breaker to defuse toxicity.
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
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
I love the idea. Discoverability in the App Store is tricky. I typed in "Sundayy" and Apple asked if I meant "Sunday" and showed me a bunch of other apps first!
Sorry to be “that guy” but can’t seem to update my profile picture. Just a heads up. Love the idea! And the UI is super nice. Just posted a reflection.
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)
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|5 years ago
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.
primitivesuave|5 years ago
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.
eitland|5 years ago
secfirstmd|5 years ago
But worth remembering. A huge chunk of the world works on Sunday. E.g Middle East has its week days Sunday to Thursday.
voisin|5 years ago
> Reflections are kept secret.
> Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week...
mempko|5 years ago
0xbadcafebee|5 years ago
jsilence|5 years ago
I hope this usage pattern gains some traction.
itoprocess|5 years ago
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.
artificialLimbs|5 years ago
>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.
ewokone|5 years ago
On behalf of a psychological viewpoint, every human tells 2 narratives. One to belong to a group, seeking an image he wants to be seen as, and, an inner one, reflecting on behaviours with utmost honesty to one self in order to mature\grow.
Sharing personal insights while knowing anyone could read your thoughts later on, twists your notes in a misleading direction, I find. This kept me from journaling 20 years in fear someone could neglect myself on behalf of my notes\points\feelings\ideas written down.
In this high speed, working environment today, we rarely take time to reflect, and when we do, taking notes, shouldn't be a privacy lost way to do that. --- Some months ago I started with 2 friends regular and self-honest check'ins. Every one does daily journaling for him\herself and only presents insights about themselves, not to proof anything to the group, nor getting something out, bit to have the courage to speak out to oneselfs with courage what new viewpoint has been gathered lately on one selfs behaviour.
Start that with that. Pick beloved ones nearby, ask them if they are interested in having such an interview, encouraging oneself and others and you start maturing (I find myself). No online social network needed.
nowherebeen|5 years ago
tr1ll10nb1ll|5 years ago
unknown|5 years ago
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reckter|5 years ago
Autmaticly generate A summary from their instagram / facebook for example.
lucjac|5 years ago
__soter__|5 years ago
ghiculescu|5 years ago
Android version in review with google as we speak (I built it).
tomaszs|5 years ago
jv_dh|5 years ago
DarkContinent|5 years ago
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george-in-sd|5 years ago
i2amsam|5 years ago
In Vermont there’s a very popular social network called Front Porch Forum that collects posts and only issues them once a day, it seems like adding time delays and eliminating fast replies is a good circuit breaker to defuse toxicity.
s0rta|5 years ago
jillianschuller|5 years ago
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
wyxuan|5 years ago
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
maxehmookau|5 years ago
rufio1|5 years ago
marcod|5 years ago
love the idea!
ghiculescu|5 years ago
whimsica1|5 years ago
ghiculescu|5 years ago
nowherebeen|5 years ago
ep103|5 years ago
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|5 years ago
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 :)
intricatedetail|5 years ago
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