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by open-paren 1531 days ago
I've only read the landing page, but I'm instantly very interested in this. I've recently been looking for a product or solution just like this as part of my emergency preparedness goals.

Some questions:

1) I know that homesheet.co is currently free, but what are you considering for pricing options?

2) What are my data export options? No offense, but products on HN are a dime-a-dozen and this is the kind of data that I don't want to lose if you get too busy to work on the product.

I'd love to see encryption included as a feature. I know you say that you don't sell the data and that it's "mine", but I want to make it impossible for you, since privacy policy can change at any time.

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Thank you for your interest! Happy to address your questions:

1. HomeSheet is currently free so I can gauge user interest and receive user feedback (Like yours, which I appreciate so much). After the early access period, I'm considering an annual subscription, and likely a free tier. This all depends on the infrastructure costs, etc moving forward.

2. I'm committed to a PDF export option to generate visual reports of your items. This isn't quite ready yet but it's in the works! Currently, I am able to provide a sqlite export of your data and a zip of your assets via a support request at this time, but I would like this export option directly in the app so it is available to you 24/7.

Encryption is an interesting use case I haven't considered yet. I'd be happy to explore what this would look like. My first thought would be to allow for client side encryption of any documents attached to your items, so things like vehicle registrations, bill of sales, etc. would all be encrypted client side. This is something I'll have to explore more, and likely would be added at a later date. I'm definitely interested though!

I'm scared to use it right now, put all my items in, and then the pricing is obscene later and I've wasted all my data entry...