Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by daniel_sushil 1181 days ago
Hi Zenkat, thanks for your interest in Floutwork! We take privacy seriously and have a detailed privacy policy that outlines our commitment to protecting our users' information. You can find it here: https://www.floutwork.com/privacy-policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out – we're always happy to provide more information and ensure that our users are comfortable with our practices. Thanks again for your support!
1 comments

I didn't get to check this out yesterday so a bit late to respond. While it is a very interesting product, the privacy policy is a little concerning. You mention collecting cookies and say they are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. However, they are also commonly used to store your login session, and would mean you can use them to impersonate the user too. Which is no good. Definitely don't want any third party collecting them. Especially with hooks in to a lot of personal stuff.

The tool looks awesome, but why do you need anything on your end? Opt-in telemetry might be reasonable, to see what domains (not full URLs) people are using it for. But what exactly is done server side? If I could use it 100% locally, or self hosted, I would be all over this. I would still be willing to support development, in some way, but really don't want third party servers involved. Have you looked at the way Obsidian handles pricing? I wonder if something similar could be viable.

@Bendon292 - I have thought about some privacy options including a "fully private" option where all data is stored locally and can be synced to any of your favorite cloud providers (or our servers) if need be. This is similar to what guys like obsidian seem to be doing as well. I will be down to exploring this further. If you are interested in developing it with me, let's chat. Just shoot an email to hello@floutwork.com and we can take it from there.