> It seems not many devs may have a passion for improving the privacy implications of their code.
I know you _probably_ aren't referencing this, but coming from someone who tried to crack the "Privacy-focused tools / SaaS" nut for a year... the privacy community really isn't interested in having products catered to them.
They are, in my opinion, the worst community to try to build for and especially try to build a paid product for. You likely have to come at it from the direction of selling their boss or non-privacy minded peers on it then those peers forcing the product onto them.
Only open-source is allowed, can't market to them even as a solo dev (how do you market to that which allows no marketing or promos), little interest in paying for hosted tools and are definitely the main proponents of "why would I use this when I could glue together [obscure tool 1], [obscure tool 2] and [obscure tool 3] and pay you nothing"
Love 'em, one of 'em... will never waste my time trying to cater to them again.
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But I also suck at marketing so might be a terrible bias, ha.
Not intended on initially being what you're looking for, but contributors and those interested often discuss privacy implications of developing software in the Off Topic chat for privacy focused project I've created.
Hi,
As I'm a developer and a DPO (Data protection officer) I also looked for a privacy focused developer group, or even just a forum.
I haven't found one. That's why I created a "Developers and privacy" discord server to talk about it, if you're interested here is the invitation link : https://discord.gg/EVr6ptb2s6
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 24.4 ms ] threadIt seems not many devs may have a passion for improving the privacy implications of their code.
I know you _probably_ aren't referencing this, but coming from someone who tried to crack the "Privacy-focused tools / SaaS" nut for a year... the privacy community really isn't interested in having products catered to them.
They are, in my opinion, the worst community to try to build for and especially try to build a paid product for. You likely have to come at it from the direction of selling their boss or non-privacy minded peers on it then those peers forcing the product onto them.
Only open-source is allowed, can't market to them even as a solo dev (how do you market to that which allows no marketing or promos), little interest in paying for hosted tools and are definitely the main proponents of "why would I use this when I could glue together [obscure tool 1], [obscure tool 2] and [obscure tool 3] and pay you nothing"
Love 'em, one of 'em... will never waste my time trying to cater to them again.
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But I also suck at marketing so might be a terrible bias, ha.
https://matrix.to/#/#syphon-offtopic:matrix.org
Let me know if you find or create a group like this, would be happy to join!
Otherwise I know there are also Meetups about Privacy engineering organized here : https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/privacy-engineering-sf/
I hope that I helped :)