[krapp]

The image does convey the concept, but adding a short description of it would definitely help. For me personally, this:

it's a chrome extension that adds a sidebar onto every page and let's you drag any useful content from web pages and organize them into visual stacks

... communicated better than the image did. It is saving links? Shortcuts? Copies of the content? Does it automatically update or synchronize with the remote content? Does this mean you'll be keeping a database of whatever I put into the stack? Does it save or track passwords? What about images, and form field text, and history? If I login to Facebook, is your app going to attempt to correlate my social media account and harvest my data?

Given how intrusive some apps can be, I just personally have come to mistrust minimalist approaches like this, though I understand it's something of a standard practice. It may be an unfair bias but there you are. I'm not accusing you of anything, and it seems like a neat app, but it's not hard to feel like a sheep being led up a chute lately.

[AshMokhberi]

Wow awesome feedback thank you. We are going to start spit testing our landing page text soon so I will certainly put that description I'm there as one of the alternatives.

In terms of tracking we I understand your concerns. Here is a list of the things we track.

1. We keep a database of all the content you add to stacks. This is so you will one day be able to access it from any device.

2. The data we store about the content you add varies depending on the type of content. But typically we store plain text, HTML and associated URI's representations for everything you add. This is so we can render content in a visually constitent manner and make it easy for users to retrieve from visual memory.

3. We do not track any browsing data or any page interactions. We only store data of the things you add to Latis.

Hope this clears things up for you. We would love it if you could give it a try and let us now what you think.

[aledalgrande]

Hi, I'm the other founder! Well of course we're going to track your Facebook account! And then we'll send a drone to thank you for subscribing. :-) Seriously, that is good feedback and appreciate the privacy concerns, I am really sensible to that too. We're storing a graph database of associations, so to be able to suggest you more interesting things to see in the future. That said, nothing in the business logic is tied to users/accounts, it's more like "a stack is related to a stack, because of their item relationships". Also, until we add collaborative stacks, it's all inherently private by default. Not going to track anything in forms or the like, just the stuff you decide to drag and drop.

[krapp]

Well, congratulations on shipping.

We're storing a graph database of associations, so to be able to suggest you more interesting things to see in the future.

Can I opt out of that if I want? If I just want to store things and not get any suggestions or prompts or anything?

[AshMokhberi]

We are no way near the stage of implementing that yet, right now we are just trying to find out if people find it useful. In terms of the future we are looking to be able to provide you with hints of useful content on a per stack basis, based on other users who have created stacks similar to yours. Kind of like an extension of search powered by people. We don't envisage this being a social feature as in people will not be able to see your stacks and content we recommend will not display any information relating to the users who added it. We are purely recommending the content to help people.

But this is all theoretical, right now it's not something we are working on and we might end up going in a different direction. Either way we fully intend to inform our users of the changes we make as we make them.

[aledalgrande]

Hey Krapp, suggestions might be opt-out, or not there at all. The graph is there, but we might go down different avenues. We're still in a very early stage and have a few possibilities, so if you use it right now, it will just be your own content. Thank you for your reaction and feel free to drop an email to [e-mail] with any further concern you might have (or discuss it here, if you prefer).