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The service that Paul Graham mentioned is probably this one: http://ohlife.com http://ohlife.com Shutdown announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

The service that Paul Graham mentioned is probably this one: http://ohlife.com http://ohlife.com Shutdown announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345881 I used it and loved it. It was cool while it lasted. Unfortunately it's just one more example for why I don't trust startups. Also you probably don't need a service, personally I can just send email to yourself, PGP encrypted. The only bit that's missing is a periodic reminder, to which you can reply. But I can probably set that up as a cron job.

kossnocorp 7y ago
Funnily enough, I also used and loved it, and it was the inspiration to build Diary Email. > But I can probably set that up as a cron job Almost every app could be replaced with email, a cron job or a spreadsheet ;-)
- bad_user 7y ago
  I'm glad to see someone retry building something similar, but the problem is that OhLife is a service launched 10 years ago [1]. Many of us were not aware of privacy issues then, plus we were naive enough to think that the services we adopted would survive if cool enough. I loved OhLife, but now 10 years later I wouldn't subscribe to a clone. Fool me once etc. I wish you succeed though. It's a cool project and your landing page looks good. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613137
opencl 7y ago
There are a few other similar sites that are still running: https://www.dailydiary.com/ https://www.dailydiary.com/ https://ahhlife.com/ https://ahhlife.com/ https://www.trailmix.life/ https://www.trailmix.life/ And an open source self-hostable one that was started right around the time ohlife shut down: https://github.com/einaregilsson/MyLife https://github.com/einaregilsson/MyLife
dsaavy 7y ago
Non-technical users could just use something like Zapier or Automate.io to email them reminders that they can reply to.

kossnocorp 7y ago

Funnily enough, I also used and loved it, and it was the inspiration to build Diary Email. > But I can probably set that up as a cron job Almost every app could be replaced with email, a cron job or a spreadsheet ;-)

bad_user 7y ago
I'm glad to see someone retry building something similar, but the problem is that OhLife is a service launched 10 years ago [1]. Many of us were not aware of privacy issues then, plus we were naive enough to think that the services we adopted would survive if cool enough. I loved OhLife, but now 10 years later I wouldn't subscribe to a clone. Fool me once etc. I wish you succeed though. It's a cool project and your landing page looks good. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613137

opencl 7y ago

There are a few other similar sites that are still running: https://www.dailydiary.com/ https://www.dailydiary.com/ https://ahhlife.com/ https://ahhlife.com/ https://www.trailmix.life/ https://www.trailmix.life/ And an open source self-hostable one that was started right around the time ohlife shut down: https://github.com/einaregilsson/MyLife https://github.com/einaregilsson/MyLife

dsaavy 7y ago

Non-technical users could just use something like Zapier or Automate.io to email them reminders that they can reply to.