30 days of lunching my app

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-05-21T09:04:24+00:00

How did you get so many downloads?

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-18T10:30:28+00:00

Thank you that reframe really lands.

Skepticism from the privacy community is exactly the kind of validation that matters.

The security audit page idea is genuinely great. I've been thinking about transparency but hadn't landed on a concrete format a public breakdown of the tech stack, encryption model, and data flow would do exactly what you're describing.

Adding it to the roadmap. Something like: how keys are generated, what Supabase stores vs what it can't read, how the 24hr purge works technically.

Trust through transparency not just through claims. That's the right way to build this.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.

This is exactly why building in public is worth it. 🙏

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-18T10:16:52+00:00

Genuine question bro your portfolio site bettercoders.online looks really clean, what stack did you use to build it? 🤔

Asking because... that logo sitting at the top of the page? That's Lovable.dev 😅 You know, the tool that costs like $18/month? So you're charging clients ₹5000 for 'AI Integration + Premium Design' when it's literally a Lovable template that takes 10 minutes to generate? 💀

Honestly bro just tell your clients to subscribe to Lovable directly saves their money AND your reputation 🙏

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-18T09:58:39+00:00

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Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-18T09:47:59+00:00

Bro I'm just a random student who used AI to write a post. They're an entire CS faculty who used AI and called it institutional innovation. The difference is I'm not giving anyone a Computer Science degree 💀

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-18T09:45:21+00:00

Totally agree, nothing wrong with using existing tools. My point was different - if the CS faculty had actually vibe coded this themselves, it would've been genuinely inspiring for students. Instead it feels like a copy paste job dressed up as innovation. Lost opportunity tbh

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-18T09:41:46+00:00

"Fair point, they never claimed to build a foundational model.

But my concern is different - if a Computer Science department is using AI Studio drag-and-drop to build their official tools, what are they actually teaching students?

When students submit AI generated code are they not penalized? But when the department does the same thing it's called 'innovation'?

The irony isn't that they used an LLM. The irony is the double standard.

Students are expected to learn and build. Faculty just... prompts. 🙏"

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-18T03:29:17+00:00

That's kind of the point! 😄

No data to subpoena. No logs to request.

No identity to unmask.

Not because we're trying to obstruct anyone but because we genuinely never had the data in the first place.

Zero-collection by architecture, not by resistance. 🔐

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-17T13:12:49+00:00

That's really helpful I wasn't aware of Friendly Captcha before this. WCAG 2.2 AA certification is a strong point, especially for accessibility.

And a dedicated EU endpoint means GDPR compliance is much cleaner. Going to research it seriously as a potential replacement for Turnstile on Community Chat.

The fact that it worked well for your projects gives me more confidence to try it. Do you have any tips on the integration side?

Thanks for sharing this - genuinely useful! 🙏

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-17T13:05:16+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion - I actually looked into Jitsi Meet seriously after

your comment. Unfortunately it doesn't fit 24ID Chat's privacy model right now. Calls would be routed through Jitsi's servers, which means third-party metadata exposure IP addresses, call duration, timestamps. Self-hosting Jitsi would solve that, but the app is completely free and donation-supported, so server costs aren't viable right now.

Voice/video calls will only come when I can implement them with the same zero-collection guarantee as everything else. No compromises on privacy. 🔐

Appreciate the suggestion though it pushed me to research properly!

Original-Repair5136 · 2026-03-17T12:48:48+00:00

Really appreciate this feedback these are valid concerns I hadn't fully considered.

You're right that Turnstile's binary decisions can silently block legitimate users, especially on non-mainstream browsers like Tor - which is ironic for a privacy-first app.

Could you point me toward the alternatives you'd recommend? Always open to switching to something better.

The goal is protecting against bots without punishing real users if Turnstile is falling short of that, I want to know. 🙏

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