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Woah, cool to see Reflect on HN. I started Reflect a few years ago. We're building it as a lifestyle company. There's only four of us. We bootstrapped for a wh
by maccaw 4y ago
Woah, cool to see Reflect on HN.
I started Reflect a few years ago. We're building it as a lifestyle company. There's only four of us. We bootstrapped for a while, and then did a $1m crowdfund. Now our goal is to get to profitability, and we're half-way there.
Product wise, our goal is to make something beautiful, fast, secure - that just works out the box. We're end-to-encrypted, which I think this crowd will appreciate.
Happy to answer any questions.
- beefman 4y agoWhat happens if you go out of business?
- maccaw 4y agoThen you can export your notes to HTML or Markdown.
- joshspankit 4y agoWith all metadata? In a machine-parseable format? How easy is it to export notes right now?
- maccaw 4y agoWe have all of the above. Export anytime. It's part of our company values. https://reflect.academy/492a5b05bc2b4538ac6d1c08c971070d https://reflect.academy/492a5b05bc2b4538ac6d1c08c971070d
- joshspankit 4y agoExcellent excellent. It’s now officially on my radar.
- beefman 4y agoThat's good of course. I'd also like to suggest you promise to release the code under an open source license should you cease operations.
- jbverschoor 4y agoNotePlan is severless
- slickdork 4y agoYour product claims to be end to end encrypted. Since it is closed source, do you plan on providing any proof via a third-party security audit?
- ngneer 4y agoWe only ask because we have been burned in the past. For the existence of encryption to comfort a security savvy crowd, we often need to see that it was implemented correctly, as there are far too many ways of getting it wrong than there are of getting it right. I would not worry about it too much, though. Once the product is successful you can go back and rethink, like Zoom did. Sad, but true.
- maccaw 4y agoYup, audit details are here: https://reflect.academy/security-and-encryption https://reflect.academy/security-and-encryption
- arjvik 4y agoThis looks very similar to mem.ai — how are you differentiating yourself?
- altryne1 4y agoPrevious user of both, but have opted to pay for Reflect, after Mem added AI features before adding a dark mode. Any notes app that doesn't give a dark mode to their customers as high priority, no matter how cool, is not listening to their customers. Alex has been obsessed with customer feedback, answering support emails, and on discord, and it shows. Reflect is beautiful, fast and super secure. Mem has the twitter bot, which is really cool!
- phaer 4y ago> We're end-to-encrypted, which I think this crowd will appreciate. Yes, we do! Just curios why this doesn't currently include files and images? Some of the most sensitive info in my notes is inside PDF, e.g. contracts. > "We do not end-to-end encrypt things like files or images you upload" https://reflect.academy/security-and-encryption https://reflect.academy/security-and-encryption