[jillianschuller]

Hey all,

A year ago I deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone. I didn’t like the attention hijacking, or the never-ending feed surfing, or how they made me feel.

Looked around for a more minimalist platform I could use to stay connected to family and friends. Couldn’t find one, so started building one.

Sundayy is a social network centered around mindful reflection. It is designed to be checked just once a week, on Sunday.

Mon - Sat: You’re prompted to slow down, reflect, and write about what the day has brought you. Once you reflect, that’s it. Reflections are kept secret. There are no feeds to check.

Sunday: Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week as they lived it; day by day, in their own words.

My husband and I have been building Sundayy together while using it with close family and friends. Has become a nice ritual to read reflections over a tea on Sunday morning, then call family/friends from there.

[primitivesuave]

This is a great idea and the UI is beautiful.

I had a similar personal project a while back to just send out emails to people with my "social update" on a weekly/monthly/yearly basis. People would opt-in to the email and select the frequency from a form on my personal website, and on my end I would get a reminder to send out my weekly update. It ended up being a bit buggy and a hassle to manage, and I'm planning to rewrite it soon. I bet if you built this feature into the app, you could organically grow the user base, as users would be able to still send Sunday reflections to certain emails and that email could have a link to download the app.

I think the audience for an app like this is people like me, who want to free themselves from social media altogether. I'm thrilled to see people working on the dopamine addiction that Twitter/Facebook/etc feed on, and wish you the best of luck on this venture!

Also, if you're looking for some free serverless code to power the idea I mentioned above, let me know how I should get that to you.

[jillianschuller]

Thank you for the kind words!

That is a very good idea re emailing the weekly update. Ironically we started with it being email based, then switched to the in app “buddies” (addable via a buddy code). Switched because people didn’t have an immediate email list, but definitely want to add this back in!

Thank you for the feedback, if you give Sundayy a go please let me know what you think - [e-mail] :)

[eitland]

Brilliant idea! Can you say a few words about how you will protect user data? (What I really want is I want every developer of any such app tied to the mast like Odysseus because we've seen what the sirens song of growth based investments from venture capital funds can do even to nice and smart people line the WhatsApp founders ;-)

[itoprocess]

Can't agree more. If you are wondering how much main stream social apps are sharing, you can see a summary at this link. https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/activity_list. Mine has over 2,000 websites that are sharing data back.

[jillianschuller]

We have thought about monetizing down the line, but on principle I’m completely opposed to any model re ads/user data. We’d treat it like a tool you pay a one off price for.

Data privacy is something we can be more explicit about (thank you for highlighting this - will work on it). Re developers, it’s just my husband and I at the moment, and we’re just building it because we want it to exist.

If you want to email me any questions/concerns, I’m [e-mail] :)

[frombody]

The privacy policy you have currently does not mention what you do with the content that users share with each other.

Do you provide this information to third parties?

[ghiculescu]

No.

[secfirstmd]

Interesting idea.

But worth remembering. A huge chunk of the world works on Sunday. E.g Middle East has its week days Sunday to Thursday.

[jinnko]

I believe it's Saturday to Wednesday, with Thu & Fri as the weekend days.

[secfirstmd]

Not sure about that. I've been in a lot of Middle East countries and they were Sunday to Thurs.

[voisin]

How do these two quotes relate? They are kept secret for the week but then revealed all at once?

> Reflections are kept secret.

> Reflections for the week are revealed. You can look back on your friend’s and family’s week...

[tryitnow]

Yes, this is very confusing. Some people could read this and mistakenly assume that their reflections are always kept secret (because they didn't read the second sentence).

It might be better to change it to "Reflection are kept secret until Sunday."

This might seem like a little issue, but it's not. All it takes is one over eager person to join the app in haste, not really read how it works, post some embarrassing secret thinking it will be kept secret and then become mortified when it's revealed. Then they will raise a storm online and your app will be known as something that causes drama rather than alleviates it.

[trhaynes]

I wouldn't use the word secret at all in this case, frankly

[wccrawford]

I think they mean that they're hidden until the next Sunday after they were posted.

[ghiculescu]

That’s right! Every Sundayy you can read everyone’s reflections on that day only. Then they are gone forever. It’s very whimsical :)

[leobabauta]

So there’s no option to save your reflections as an ongoing journal? That was one of my motivations for installing the app today.

[mempko]

I love this idea but I don't own an iOS or Android device. Will there be any effort to make a web version?

[ghiculescu]

There’s a web version! https://www.sundayy.app/users/sign_up

[0xbadcafebee]

If you're going to reach out anyway, couldn't you call them without checking the feed? I guess I don't see how this is different than just unfollowing your Facebook friends and going to look at their profiles on Sunday.

[ghiculescu]

People mostly post junk (or nothing) on Facebook.

Having used Sundayy for a few months with friends and family the quality of content is much higher, I believe this is because it encourages you to keep a much smaller and intentional list of buddies. It also doesn’t require you to keep your Facebook account.

[jsilence]

That is a really nice idea and anybody on a network that allows drafts could adopt this on a personal level.

I hope this usage pattern gains some traction.