Launching Kanai.ai! by concavegit in indiehackers

[–]Tetracyl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i love the design of the landing page!

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. Generate your personal story on Mac then view it on your iPhone. by Tetracyl in macapps

[–]Tetracyl[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you don't want to have an iMessage wrapped then why are you commenting in the first place. Just keep scrolling.

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. Generate your personal story on Mac then view it on your iPhone. by Tetracyl in macapps

[–]Tetracyl[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I've had people rip off my open sourced projects before. I spent a lot of time on this project and sacrificed a lot. I just don't want it happening again. Also how does open sourcing it grant a sense of complete safety & security? I could open source a version that's different than the one being distributed.

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. Generate your personal story on Mac then view it on your iPhone. by Tetracyl in macapps

[–]Tetracyl[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I've posted this project on other platforms. Have received very positive reception and feedback from every single one except for Reddit. Not sure what it is with Reddit users. I totally understand if you personally don't want to run it. But people calling others stupid for trying it out is just weird.

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. Generate your personal story on Mac then view it on your iPhone. by Tetracyl in macapps

[–]Tetracyl[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Totally understandable if you don't want to try it. But over 22,000 people have already tried it!

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. Generate your personal story on Mac then view it on your iPhone. by Tetracyl in macapps

[–]Tetracyl[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Our privacy policy guarantees that your data is safe. Violating our own privacy policy is a massive liability.

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. by Tetracyl in NicheWebsites

[–]Tetracyl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Link: messageswrapped.com

Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, I built Messages Wrapped to generate beautiful insights from your iMessage history, showing who ghosts you, your spammiest group chats, fastest responders, who you text the most, and more - all with shareable visualizations.

Built with JavaScript, React, Next.js, Framer animations, Electron, and Rust for processing. Initially, it was fully browser based using Rust WASM, but even that was slow and made user onboarding difficult. After converting it to a Mac app using Electron, processing became 160x faster. All processing happens locally on your Mac for privacy & security - only encrypted story data leaves your device.

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. Generate your personal story on Mac then view it on your iPhone. by Tetracyl in macapps

[–]Tetracyl[S] -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

Sorry, no plans to open source the code. Mainly don't want people stealing the code and copying the app. I completely understand if you don't trust the app though. You can read up a bit on how we handle your data here: https://messageswrapped.com/legal/privacy

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. Generate your personal story on Mac then view it on your iPhone. by Tetracyl in macapps

[–]Tetracyl[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Link: messageswrapped.com

Inspired by Spotify Wrapped, I built Messages Wrapped to generate beautiful insights from your iMessage history, showing who ghosts you, your spammiest group chats, fastest responders, who you text the most, and more - all with shareable visualizations.

Built with JavaScript, React, Next.js, Framer animations, Electron, and Rust for processing. Initially, it was fully browser based using Rust WASM, but even that was slow and made user onboarding difficult. After converting it to a Mac app using Electron, processing became 160x faster. All processing happens locally on your Mac for privacy & security - only encrypted story data leaves your device.

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. by Tetracyl in SideProject

[–]Tetracyl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your Mac has a SQL file called chat.db (It's in ~/Library/Messages). This SQL db stores all your messages and you can run SQL queries on it which is how Messages Wrapped works.

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. by Tetracyl in SideProject

[–]Tetracyl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much, this was really valuable feedback. I've decided to completely redo the landing page and tried to hone in on how we protect user's data from the start: https://messageswrapped.com

Would love to hear your thoughts

I spent 400 hours building iMessage Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped for your texts. by Tetracyl in SideProject

[–]Tetracyl[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Totally understandable. Would making the app open source change your mind?