Comment by kgdiem
2 years ago
I made a couple of things for myself recently.
I’d been unwillingly paying for LA fitness for around 6 months but the only way to cancel was to send certified mail so I released bye bye fitness last week to do it from home and was my own first customer https://byebyefitness.com
Last year I made stream switcher because I use Apple Music and my girlfriend uses Spotify. We send songs back and forth a lot and she couldn’t easily listen to the links I’d share. My app is an iMessage extension that shows your recently played Apple Music songs and allows you to search for and send Spotify links within the messages app https://kevindiem.com/stream-switcher
Haha wow, byebyefitness is such a darn good idea. Kudos for thinking of that!
Maybe one day you could get acquired by PaperKarma or a similar mission-aligned business.
Thank you!
Wow! Never heard of PaperKarma but I could definitely use it. I’m extremely interested in honest, pro-consumer software but the revenue doesn’t seem to be there.
I actually took down my blog where I was writing about alternative monetization strategies and creating pro consumer/privacy friendly software because I felt that it could give the wrong impression to potential employers who don’t share my values :/
StreamSwitcher, for example doesn’t use any tracking or keep any data from the user. There’s an anonymous session that’s created to get a user generated mapping of Apple Music links to Spotify links if the user completes a “transaction“. Costs me nearly nothing to run.
Same story with ByeByeFitness — no user data is tracked or passed on to Google, Facebook, etc.
>>creating pro consumer/privacy friendly software because I felt that it could give the wrong impression to potential employers who don’t share my values :/
FWIW I'd be interested in reading a blog on this topic. It would be great if you could share your thoughts anonymously, or one day get to a point where you have enough "F-you Money" to disregard what employers might think.