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Hi Hackernews, I created Spacedtime because I'm known to have a horrible memory. Maybe people are kidding but I wanted to change that. There are flashcard apps

Hi Hackernews, I created Spacedtime because I'm known to have a horrible memory. Maybe people are kidding but I wanted to change that. There are flashcard apps out there but I wanted to create one that is focused on creating cards for my personal memories. My personal goal is to store and recall all that is dear to me. Given the personal nature, I do plan on spending a lot of my time on protecting the user's information. Today, Spacedtime does not have a server and stores all information locally. The command-line app stores information in a local JSON file and the web app stores into Local Storage. However, I'm not sure what is the best user-friendly way to go about the encryption layer and how it should be applied. I've posted to Product Hunt, [Lobste.rs](http://lobste.rs http://lobste.rs) and Indiehackers so far. I've been saving my self from posting to HN till now. It is still an MVP but at least it is not the first version :). I've been pretty aggressive in publishing my work. I'm looking forward to everyone's feedback! Best, -James

notechback 6y ago
Here the answer coming from an idiot (me): I've lost far more data to password or key loss or bugs in an encryption software than I've had someone try to our succeed to access/steal/... So encryption for something that is on your local machine from my perspective wouldn't need to be a priority.
- uptownhr 6y ago
  Great point. I've been battling this in my head but definitely not an immediate goal to encrypt. However, I personally want to make sure I do not have access to your data. As I start to work on providing functionality around syncing across devices I'll be keeping this in mind.
kmorgh 6y ago
How about 3rd party storage through the users own dropbox, gdrive, 1drive. Then it's still sort of self hosted Also easy to use same data across devices. Not sure on the syncing strategy/performance
- checker 6y ago
  Draw.io does storage federation to OneDrive and others pretty well.
  - uptownhr 6y ago
    i'll have to look into the drive api. If easy enough, this sounds like a plan.
rdslw 6y ago
It's cool app, but I'll definitely rewrite it, using as inspiration. Why rewrite you ask? npm install gives: added 509 packages from 307 contributors and audited 258096 packages in 11.65s 509 packages WTF?!????????????? Javascript ecosystem is a mess. I did not believe it, but looks like it's true: `npm ls |grep -v deduped |wc` 512 3359 24956 wait for more: `du -sh node_modules` 56M !?!?!?!? and final check: `find node_modules -type f|wc ` 6745 6745 303596 Verdict: NO, THANK YOU BUT NO. p.s. among them 6 warnings about using sth deprecated. You can guess how many of 500 of them just dont give a shi^H^H^Hwarning. npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file. npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^2.1.2 (node_modules/jest-haste-map/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

notechback 6y ago

Here the answer coming from an idiot (me): I've lost far more data to password or key loss or bugs in an encryption software than I've had someone try to our succeed to access/steal/... So encryption for something that is on your local machine from my perspective wouldn't need to be a priority.

uptownhr 6y ago
Great point. I've been battling this in my head but definitely not an immediate goal to encrypt. However, I personally want to make sure I do not have access to your data. As I start to work on providing functionality around syncing across devices I'll be keeping this in mind.

kmorgh 6y ago

How about 3rd party storage through the users own dropbox, gdrive, 1drive. Then it's still sort of self hosted Also easy to use same data across devices. Not sure on the syncing strategy/performance

checker 6y ago
Draw.io does storage federation to OneDrive and others pretty well.
- uptownhr 6y ago
  i'll have to look into the drive api. If easy enough, this sounds like a plan.

rdslw 6y ago

It's cool app, but I'll definitely rewrite it, using as inspiration. Why rewrite you ask? npm install gives: added 509 packages from 307 contributors and audited 258096 packages in 11.65s 509 packages WTF?!????????????? Javascript ecosystem is a mess. I did not believe it, but looks like it's true: `npm ls |grep -v deduped |wc` 512 3359 24956 wait for more: `du -sh node_modules` 56M !?!?!?!? and final check: `find node_modules -type f|wc ` 6745 6745 303596 Verdict: NO, THANK YOU BUT NO. p.s. among them 6 warnings about using sth deprecated. You can guess how many of 500 of them just dont give a shi^H^H^Hwarning. npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file. npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^2.1.2 (node_modules/jest-haste-map/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})