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paulhebert
This looks lovely! I've been meaning to do a better job of calling friends and family. I'll try it out!
mahirhiro
Thank you @paulhebert! Please feel free to send me any feedback or ideas after trying it out
dddddaviddddd
It would be nice if the homepage loaded more gracefully with Javascript disabled -- as it is, it's completely blank without JS.
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jonners00
This is great, but also not well suited (in terms of visuals, name, language) to some of the audiences that need it most. A version that resonates more with middle aged men would be great. Oak or something.
elicash
This is a bit off-topic and not a direct response to your very reasonable suggestion, but I always find it weird and uncomfortable when companies go over-the-top on the gender stereotypes -- even as someone whose interests admittedly overlap with those very stereotypes.

For example, barber shops that serve bourbon. I'm a fan of bourbon, but it almost feels like they're calling me out for being "basic!" Or I feel like I'm being targeted like those Axe body spray commercials thought they were targeting me when I was a kid in the 90s.

Anyway, I'm not anti-oak, or having it be a farm or something. But also, flowers can be nice.

bahador
Is this a CRM for your friends? FRM? FriendsForce?
seism
Beautiful. I am a little worried that you’ll soon lose interest and stop supporting the app without a business model. Do you plan to at least get sponsored, e.g. by some kind of foundation, like ones that are behind mental health initiatives?
zlies
Nice Idea! I noticed a bug during contact import. The month of birthdays are shifted -1 :)
mahirhiro
Thank you for the feedback and bug report!!! It's going to be fixed in an update 1.1.0 (waiting for apple to approve it)!
adi2907
This is definitely very useful, and something i've been thinking of to build myself. A personal CRM. Issue is when I see something like this - where it will take me around half hour to figure out - while i can vibe code something in an hour which will do much more and personalize it for me, I hold back on trying it out.
mahirhiro
> where it will take me around half hour to figure out

Would love feedback on what parts are confusing :)

jamilton
Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free.

Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps seem to have trouble with it, I assume they're assuming a larger screen.

bko
Writing copy is painfully time consuming. AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. I know it'll write better copy than me.

Terminally online people need to get over this weird aversion to anything generated w/ help of AI. Do you have similar misgivings, like "this guy obviously used auto correct", or "he's using speech to text, I'm not reading anything unless its hand-written"

Get over it. It's here, it's useful, judge the product on its merits. I get if you see spam email messages that are overly tailored and ignoring them because the person obv didn't do the work. But this dude created a free app that looks pretty cool, maybe he didn't want to spend another few hours to create a pretty standard boilerplate website with app information.

SunshineTheCat
It feels like 90% of HN has become arguing about whether something was made by AI.

I'm just counting down the days until no one can actually tell how much AI was involved so we can get to discussing whether the thing is good or not.

mahirhiro
Thank you for the feedback and trying the app!

I’ll be working on fixing this :). Unfortunately I didn’t bother tested with the SE, only the 11 onwards, lesson learned.

dvt
"Poppy turns your contacts into a living garden. Gentle reminders, zero guilt."—bleh, at least write your own taglines :/

This is a neat idea that has been tried about 300 times over, but since it's contingent on already being cognizant of keeping up with relationships, people that install it aren't going to people that need to be using it.

patcon
Makes me think about a neat feature possibility -- a constraint that means having a garden means others can see into it in some sense, just like a real life garden in your yard. A garden demonstrates to others your care and attention toward it
mahirhiro
Haha thanks, that’s what the MVP is for. Although I appreciate your feedback. Even if this helps 100 other people, that’s all the validation I need.
SeriousM
I really appreciate this work. Yes, it's AI language and it seems it's not polished to run on every device -yet.

And it does one thing really good: be there. Sounds silly, I know, but an app that tries to make the world better AT NO COST is so much more than "well, I could vibe code that myself".

Thanks fellow creator of this app. Thanks for believing that this app may have an impact on the important part of our life: re/connecting people.

mahirhiro
Thanks mate!

I really appreciate your words! It’s been months in the marking and I’m so happy to see people also find it helpful like me!

Please let me know if you think of any cool features you’d like to see :)

HaloZero
I love this! It’s a fantastic little free app. Any reason you don’t open source it? I’d love to help fix some bugs that I encounter.
mahirhiro
Good point. Honestly, I might consider open sourcing it. I'd like to leave it in a stable place and go from there. Can you also reach out with your contact @ poppynudge@gmail.com for the future :)
kingkawn
AI writing = nobody will read it. The lure of easy perfection is death to meaningful interaction.
swaminarayan
A lot of apps try to solve the “stay in touch with people” problem, but in my experience the novelty usually wears off after a while and the reminders start feeling like noise. Curious how you approached this in Poppy — did you design anything specifically to avoid reminder fatigue and make it sustainable long-term?
mahirhiro
This is definitely a valid concern. Since I mostly built the app for myself I wanted to have 2 easy features.

1. The ability to snooze someone who I don’t feel like reaching out for a certain period of time 2. Having an easy mute global notifications option in the app and configurable per person

I was also considering the idea of grouping contacts to maybe say “hey out of these people you should reach out to someone next month”. Basically to keep you social/ in touch with someone.

I’m very open to feedback if you think folks might get tired of those too?

downboots
Duolingo for relationships. The word engagement is hot lately.
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marvin-hansen
Totally love this app. I've always struggled with fostering relationships over time and keeping track of all the little things different people value. I actually tried a friend journal a week ago but that didn't worked as planned either. Once I installed this app, I pinged some folks, had a great unexpected call and now my garden is growing. I value the privacy & local first paradigm. I would have not installed a cloud SaaS app or hidden subscription. However I'm okay with paying a reasonable one time fee for an upgraded version. I did paid for IA Writer on Mac and iphone because their product is exactly right. Your app is similar in the sense that it solves one particular problem for one specific group of people really well. Therefore please consider a paid version at some point.
mahirhiro
LET’S GO! Appreciate the fact that you gave this app a go.

What features would you even expect in the paid version?

Also generally if you think of anything please email me for app improvements / suggestions

togido
Hey it’s an amazing app. I was trying to make an app where user can send notifications to friends when they think about them. I think it would be a great additional feature to your app! Reach me if you want to talk about it
mahirhiro
Interesting idea. DM me @ poppynudge
citadel_melon
Is there a way you can make custom time-intervals? One month seems too short for one of my friends, but 3 months is too long.
mahirhiro
> yep

in the app you can configure custom time intervals just like in google calendar :)

togido
Sent an email to the email contact on your website :)
MagicMoonlight
You definitely slopcoded this entire thing, including all the text. It ha that weird AI tone to it.
mekaoro
Love the idea! Contrary to the comments i have seen this first time, just the website copy is AI generated hence it feels off.
Madmallard
The solution to fostering relationships is getting off the computer and your phone and social media for a prolonged period of time.
paulglx
The AI writing is a big turn-off: if the app is crafted with the same care as the copy on the website, I'm not sure I want to trust the owner with VERY personal data like that :)
mahirhiro
If get a chance to read the website / privacy policy you’ll find that I actually don’t have access to any data, you don’t need to sign up to begin using the app. The sales pitch is entirely privacy first :)
alabhyajindal
I built something very similar recently but eventually lost interest because I couldn't find customers. It's main focus was sending email reminders to users to contact their friends.

https://alabhya.me/myfriends

mriet
So, I respect the entrepeneurship and technical skills to make this. Well done!

That being said, this is insane.

Maintaining your social network is a skill, just like being able to swim, doing math, being able to hold a good conversation, being able to code or cook or do your taxes.

The "promise" and "illusion" of silicon valley is that all problems (including and maybe even especially social ones) can be solved with technology. This is not true.

Having to use your brain to think about things is definitely painful. It also has incredibly good long-term effects -- and also negative short-term effects because it costs energy. It's similar to eating well, regularly exercising and other aspects of taking care of yourself.

Making sure you can remember to think about other people is not a problem -- it's a REALLY valuable skill that is gradually disappearing.

1shooner
>do your taxes.

Are you not using software to do your taxes?

bengale
Realising the irony of complaining about the complaining; can we not just have one comment that moans about AI writing and then consider it said?

It's going to be and endless circular discussion going forward, AI is not going anywhere, people are going to use it to write copy. Like all things that irk overly technical people it will be completely missed by the masses so none of the pushback will have any effect.