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by Ritepaw 1002 days ago
Some implementation details:

The whole app is built in Flutter. It was a first time experience for us. Everything went pretty fast and smooth and the Flutter documentation is amazing! There are tons of resources out there that helped us solving our problems. We just needed to be a bit careful about the plugins. Some were pretty outdated or even unmaintained. But we made sure we encapsulated every plugin so we can easily replace if necessary.

Dart is a language we felt immediately comfortable with. It didn't feel too dissimilar from Java.

For now, our app is client-side only. There is no server. Which is nice. Cause it removes complexity and we can leave all the data on our users' phones. Nothing is sent to us, or any other 3rd part. This is something we are pretty proud of and hope we can keep up for a long time.

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> Nothing is sent to us, or any other 3rd part.

Thank you. Good design choice. The privacy policy was the first I scrolled to in the AppStore.

I am paranoid about these things myself, and one of the few people in my circle who actually like being GDPR-compliant. So this was a no-brainer to me.
> For now, our app is client-side only. There is no server. Which is nice. Cause it removes complexity and we can leave all the data on our users' phones.

That's a relief, when I saw this in the OP I got pretty worried:

> Here is what you can do today: > > * Tell us who the people are that matter most to you

A company specifically wanting to know that sort of thing sets off some alarm bells!

This feels a bit like complaining a health app wants your medical data though. How else is a personal CRM going to work other than by data about your social graph?
I don't mind putting data in the app. I don't want to tell the people running it anything.
Maybe I wasn't precise enough. The data remains on your phone. Nothing is sent to us.