Re:Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
by chadanon on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @06:58AM
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Same here. And I wouldn't share my contacts regardless. That's a big ask before getting to any main features and not worth the risk to me.
So a couple of thoughts: 1) Allow me to sign in and post texts without permissions or sharing contacts. 2) Give the option to ask me for photo/file access permissions when I push the photo upload button. 3) When adding contacts, a prompt for contact permission is okay then but should be optional i.e. I should be able to put a phone number or email address in manually. I don't know if you had that or not I stopped at the file permission.
Update:
On maybe the fifth try, it worked. But now it's requiring my contact list to proceed. The app itself on the home screen is just called "rn-fetch-blob" (i.e. a default react native project). I'm not going to give contact list access to an app that didn't even bother to give itself a non-default name/icon on the home screen. I think the app needs a little more time in the oven before you have other people try it out.