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mattharbord
That's cool - I don't text that much (apparently in the lowest 2%!) but it was fun to see. The word cloud was great, as were the graphs.

Feedback wise:

The graphs didn't use as much y axis as they could - i.e I think I had a max value of like 150 in one graph, but the axis went to 400.

Other than that, the onboarding video references ourchatstory.com rather than .co; which isn't a problem if you're already on the domain I guess!

Good work!

anshulagx
These feedbacks are very actionable. Thank you, will work on these
hackernewds
The data is not stored but are the results stored?
anshulagx
The data is no stored. Infact we don't even have a DB connected to the app lol. We do log some data points for product improvement but that is not persisted.
RealCodingOtaku
Do not upload plaintext personal-anything to a stranger's computer.

These things should be run locally, in your own system, after pulling the repo, verifying, and building it yourself.

srvmshr
This is a privacy nightmare. Maybe its a cool project to think for OP, but these are real chats of people and the whole idea of E2E encryption & private nature of information is defeated the moment one indulges in such a webapp. There is no guarantee how much PII is retained on the server.

Edit: Looking at all the green accounts praising the post, I think @dang should check if these involve a voting ring.

anshulagx
I thought a lot about privacy while building this. Tbh nothing can be done to satisfy all the critics but I have tried to do all I can. That includes open sourcing the code and not having a database at all. It doesn't collect Metadata as well.
zvr
Consider submitting the source code GitHub repo instead of some running service.

In the repo, have example exported data that are used as input and generated output.

anshulagx
As mentioned the code is open source. The link to the repo is in footer of the site. The backend repo contains a sample response in JSON format.
theblazehen
Getting CORS issues on my end.

    Response body is not available to scripts (Reason: CORS Missing Allow Origin)
oefrha
Half of the top level comments are green accounts praising the service, making what’s already a sketchy concept even more suspect.

Edit: Interestingly, one was even deleted after this post.

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slowwriter
All warning lights are flashing.

Don't use this.

anshulagx
I know that you all are concerned about privacy, believe me I would be too. But be assured that none of your chats are stored anywhere. In fact, we don't even deploy a db.