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.
That is a very good idea re emailing the weekly update. Ironically we started with it being email based, then switched to the in app “buddies” (addable via a buddy code). Switched because people didn’t have an immediate email list, but definitely want to add this back in!
Thank you for the feedback, if you give Sundayy a go please let me know what you think - [email protected] :)
Data privacy is something we can be more explicit about (thank you for highlighting this - will work on it). Re developers, it’s just my husband and I at the moment, and we’re just building it because we want it to exist.
If you want to email me any questions/concerns, I’m [email protected] :)
Do you provide this information to third parties?
But worth remembering. A huge chunk of the world works on Sunday. E.g Middle East has its week days Sunday to Thursday.
> Reflections are kept secret.
> Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week...
It might be better to change it to "Reflection are kept secret until Sunday."
This might seem like a little issue, but it's not. All it takes is one over eager person to join the app in haste, not really read how it works, post some embarrassing secret thinking it will be kept secret and then become mortified when it's revealed. Then they will raise a storm online and your app will be known as something that causes drama rather than alleviates it.
Having used Sundayy for a few months with friends and family the quality of content is much higher, I believe this is because it encourages you to keep a much smaller and intentional list of buddies. It also doesn’t require you to keep your Facebook account.
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.