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ourchatstory.co

12 points by anshulagx 3 years ago · 22 comments · 1 min read

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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.

srvmshr 3 years ago

This 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.

  • anshulagxOP 3 years ago

    I 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 3 years ago

      Consider 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.

      • anshulagxOP 3 years ago

        As 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.

oefrha 3 years ago

Half 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.

RealCodingOtaku 3 years ago

Do 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.

mattharbord 3 years ago

That'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!

anshulagxOP 3 years ago

I 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.

hackernewds 3 years ago

The data is not stored but are the results stored?

theblazehen 3 years ago

Getting CORS issues on my end.

    Response body is not available to scripts (Reason: CORS Missing Allow Origin)
slowwriter 3 years ago

All warning lights are flashing.

Don't use this.

scoobydoo_17 3 years ago

Says connection failed?

alexandertech 3 years ago

i am new account relax guys.

alexandertech 3 years ago

cool.I shared it with my peers.

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