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by apayan 5y ago
Here's the video of the talk that goes with Greg Kroah-Hartman's slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeeoTE9jLjM
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by apayan 5y ago
Congrats on launching. This is a product category that I've been wanting to tackle for quite some time, and it looks like you've done a pretty good job. I also notice that many of the comments are raising the point about how to tr
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Boosting developer success on Google Play(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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by apayan 6y ago
If you like the convenience of transferring a file temporarily into the cloud to download it elsewhere (great for getting stuff out of a rancher environment), check out patchbay[0]. It uses what it calls 'HTTP channels' so if you
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by apayan 6y ago
Looks like the app will be restored on Google Play. https://mobile.twitter.com/element_hq/status/135566375338003...
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by apayan 6y ago
I don't know of any legal way to guarantee that a company won't be acquired, and start exploiting it's user base, but I think there are some signs you can look for to see if it's the kind of company that you want to patr
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by apayan 6y ago
Hi wasmitnetzen. I don't want to discourage you from self-hosting OwnTracks, but I would like to clarify one thing about Zood Location. The server doesn't store any location data in plaintext. Your location is encrypted before i
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by apayan 6y ago
Hi hiq. I think WhatsApp's Live Location definitely satisfies many use cases. The biggest distinction I see between it and Zood Location is that Zood shares your location continuously, which is useful for families. The sharer doesn&#
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by apayan 6y ago
Hey unixhero. If you have the time and interest, I'd love to have a call or video chat with your about your experience in this market [ arash at zood d0t xyz ].
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by apayan 6y ago
> The logs of location sharing uploads and queries contain two pieces of information that together would allow for certain types of analytics Yes, metadata can always be analyzed and exploited. I just hope that by open sourcing the ser
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by apayan 6y ago
Hi emilburzo. I'm happy to learn from your experience here. Yeah, selling "just" a location sharing app is indeed tough. > how often do you update the location? I couldn't find any setting for that. There's no
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by apayan 6y ago
Hi Chris. Thank you so much for chiming in! Lots of families that I know use Life360, and really love the peace of mind that it provides them. The success of Life360 in this space is what gave me the courage to actually follow through and i
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by apayan 6y ago
Hi atonse. Believe it or not, this was a use case that I was considering when developing the service. Speaking with folks at various conferences I've been at, there seem to be more than a few industries where it's necessary to qui
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by apayan 6y ago
I replied to a similar concern earlier in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25350301 However, with Zood Location, it's probably more likely that the map tiles will correlate to where your friends are. At
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by apayan 6y ago
I have the desire for the same functionality. I really enjoyed the timeline history that Google Maps provided for me, but I ultimately disabled it out of privacy concerns. If there is a way to get revenue with this project, this will certai
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by apayan 6y ago
There's no whitepaper, but someone else in the thread already did an impressively speedy read through and breakdown of the crypto. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25351388 In short, there's no custom cryptogr
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by apayan 6y ago
> I think this is cool and ambitious Glad you like it! > I think you'd be hard-pressed to guarantee security against a nation state. My intent with that statement was not to mean that one would be protected from a nation stat
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by apayan 6y ago
If there exists an investor that cares about building software and services that preserve human dignity, I'd be happy to meet them and find a way to work together.
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by apayan 6y ago
> I'm an iOS user and so are most of my friends. It would be good if you added a little thing to your site to let me sign up to be emailed when it's available to try out. If you want to send me an email [arash at zood dot xyz
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by apayan 6y ago
I'd like to, but I don't think Zood Location meets the policy requirements for inclusion in F-Droid. Blockers are: * Usage of the Google Maps SDK - the service needs revenue to be able to support running and maintaining it's
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by apayan 6y ago
> One thing I've actually not seen is E2E contacts & calendars. Everything seems to be based on CalDAV & CardDAV which I think forces you to sync them with a server in plaintext. Email is mostly a lost cause, the closest you
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by apayan 6y ago
I see. Thanks for the follow up. Yeah, I'd happily pay for a privacy preserving mapping app as well. While building this, I felt the need for such a service, and as I pondered it, I felt overwhelmed by the effort to bring such a thing
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by apayan 6y ago
> if i could integrate it with my Matrix homeserver Could you describe in more detail what kind of integration you're considering? Would you just want to be able to see your friend's location published in a channel as they mo
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by apayan 6y ago
Signal allows you to explicitly open the app, get your current location, and send that snapshot of your location to someone immediately. That's definitely fine for some use cases. Zood Location lets you share your location with other p
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by apayan 6y ago
It's a fair question. I want this to be sustainable, and you want the services you rely on to be sustainable. In truth, I'm trying to determine a pricing model right now via this Show HN. I don't intend to "yank the free
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by apayan 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback JoshTriplett. :) Could you describe in more detail what you have in mind regarding "map integration and messaging/Signal integration"? I totally get what you mean about triggerring events based on loca
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by apayan 6y ago
> I'm unable to try out the android app, since I'm on iOS I don't have a formal list set up for this, but if you would like to be notified of when the iOS app is ready just send me an email [arash at zood dot xyz], and I
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by apayan 6y ago
I love the comment! Thank you some_furry. You're a quick code reader. You're correct that it doesn't offer key rotation or forward secrecy. That's something I definitely want to add (assuming anybody actually finds this
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by apayan 6y ago
So would I. :-) It's on my TODO list.
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by apayan 6y ago
That's not my app. Zood Location has zero analytics or telemtry [1]. The app id in the link you provided is some banking app with an id of 'hr.erstebank.george'. Zood Location's app id is 'xyz.zood.george'. The

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