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sandra_vu | 8 months ago

I have been thinking about building a privacy-first tracking app for years now.

discuss

freshprince|8 months ago

Someone already did that with drip.: https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/

Maybe you would like to contribute?

guappa|8 months ago

Please, make sure it's available on f-droid as well, just being there means it's more trustworthy.

sigmoid10|8 months ago

The problem is that stuff like privacy and open source don't attract the vast sums of venture capital that ad-selling businesses do. Sure, an average dev could probably build a working app like that - but could you ship the same quality as someone who can afford to hire an entire UX team?

guappa|8 months ago

Probably… it would not make you sit through 30 seconds of ads so that would be a great UX improvement.

asgerhb|8 months ago

Never mind quality - how can you achieve the same reach as someone with an advertising budget?

carstenhag|8 months ago

No, but people don't care about UX perfection in comparison. Usually it just needs to work and not get in the way.

lesuorac|8 months ago

imo, the real problem is that you need to consistently ship. It you made a one-off app then it's going to get de-listed for not being updated despite not needing an update.

sdoering|8 months ago

Funded by Mozilla (and others): https://dripapp.org/

NoTranslationL|8 months ago

I make one! It’s called Reflect.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

OJFord|8 months ago

Seems too nerdy for the market at large - the correlation etc. features might well be as good as or better than what the likes of Flo provide, but people will have a harder time understanding that than simply 'your next date is expected to be x', 'your cycle is typically x days', etc.