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by way66 2620 days ago
1/ I’m thinking about ways to have trustable 3-parties audit us. Open for more ideas. What do you think?

3/ yes, unroll.me made the wrong calls. But for Jumbo we can’t even access your data, everything happens client-side. You could say that at some point the client will upload all your to our cloud, but that’s really not going to happen. Again, here, how to trust us? First, audits. Second, my reputation. Third, independent researchers would reverse engineering our app, and look at the networks call made. Open for more feedback

Our business model is the one of Dropbox. Pay (you or your employer) for more features.

2 comments

1) your idea would probably be a lot more costly (you have to pay for the audit after all) and even then some people still wouldn’t trust it. Maybe just design your product in such a way that there’s nothing to audit? People have built software & successful businesses around that for decades without the “analytics” cancer, so please don’t tell me that you can’t do the same.

If your model is a good old “pay for good software” model, then why not just ask what features people want? Why do you feel the need to stalk what people do instead of politely asking?

How would you trust me if I tell you that there isn’t any analytics?
Its unfortunate. The bad actors that created the problem the app tries to help with also make people very untrusting. I wish you luck with that one.

A verifiable 'code available' license would be a bonus