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KevinNTH··on Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
Blockstack is very easy to get started with and provide user authentication and encrypted data storage out of the box.

About offline-mode, I am about to implement it by my side as this feature is not part of the Blockstack SDK for now.

I am happy that you are taking data privacy very seriously and I guess Blockstack is a good solution to go.

KevinNTH··on Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
Awesome project. I am a big fan of Tailwind CSS to and I use it for my current project [1]. I will definitely make use of Tailwind.run() to as a playground to design components! Great job!

[1] https://gekri.com

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
As I said [1] I wanted the journal to be online so I can use the app from the laptop and then from the mobile. I will implement offline sync soon.

Beside, I may want to implement social features in the future. There is so many things that can be done and I'm exploring some possibilities :)

[1] https://twitter.com/pixelwerk/status/1159532787843706881

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
As a software engineer, I built Gekri with performance in mind (of course, there is always more optimizations to perform but I feel the app pretty quick by now). I will never allow this kind of computation on any app that I create.

Think about App mining as rewards to developers from Blockstack PBC.

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
I think these products are different from each other so Gekri is too :)
KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
Thank you so much for your awesome feedback!

I am very proud to get spotted using nuxt. I am very grateful to the Chopin brothers (and the whole team of Vue) to make this possible. I can't wait to have Vue 3 on production!

I made the logo using Figma [1] with my very beginner skill with this kind of software. The illustrations come from [2].

I am really sorry to made a poorly reading experience. I guess I am not that fluent with English nor with copywriting. Thank to your feedback, I will spend some time to rewrite the copy ;)

I think I will spend some time to implement a demo to the site because I am not comfortable with video editing.

[1] https://www.figma.com [2] https://undraw.co

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
Thank you :)

Please read my answer here [1] to avoid duplicate content ^^

Beside, I may add social features in the future indeed. There is so much that can be done (many ideas), but for now, I focus to build the journal with polished basic features.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20652803

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
Thanks for your feedback :)

I have to say that my journaling is very basic as I am only a beginner (1 year). I just write down my thoughts, tell things about my day or comment about my mood of the moment.

I read great content [1] about journaling so I will try to improve the way I write in my journal.

I've never thought about implementing likert-scale type questions in the journal but it's a great idea. I put this in the roadmap [2] so I'm going to have some thinking about it.

I have planed a feature to have gratitude journaling which can be similar to likert-scale type questions but without the likert-scale. So I definitely can implement this kind of feature too :)

[1] http://benjaminhardy.com/journal/

[2] https://trello.com/b/sHBLZTeQ/gekri-product-roadmap

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
Thank you :D

I use Blockstack to allow users to create an identity which is handled on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Essentially when Blockstack IDs are created for users during registration, they are saved to the Bitcoin blockchain immutably so that the user him or herself is the only one who can control their ID using their private key. This is the way in which user independence is secured so that neither app developers or Blockstack controls their identities.

Take a look to the whitepaper [1] to go deeply in the details.

I use Gaia storage [2] to store data.

[1] https://blockstack.org/papers

[2] https://github.com/blockstack/gaia

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
I have been told that the privacy page [1] is reads poorly. I will rewrite the copy ^^'

You can learn more about Gaia storage here: [2]

[1] https://gekri.com/privacy

[2] https://github.com/blockstack/gaia

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
Because the journal is online. Data should be stored somewhere so I choose Gaia Storage. [1]

I have explained more about this in this tweet: [2]

[1] https://github.com/blockstack/gaia

[2] https://twitter.com/pixelwerk/status/1159532787843706881

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
Thank you :)

I try my best to bring this appeal!

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
I made a web app so I need Javascript to do so :)

I want to share with you something I've used back in 2013-2014. [1]

You won't need Javascript to use this ;)

[1] https://jrnl.sh/

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
You nailed it perfectly!!!! Jekri.com was taken, so Gekri.com was born xD

But most of the time Gekri is pronounced "Guékri" ^^'

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
I keep this feature idea for a second product (or maybe for Gekri, but later). There is something I wish to develop something since 2016 targeting people in an organization.
KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
I have to work on the offline mode, this is in the roadmap :)
KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
Thank you!

I will take the time to implement a demo. It will help to visualize the actual product before hitting the sign in button I guess :)

KevinNTH··on Show HN: I made a privacy-focused online journal
I build this app with privacy in mind. I ended by using Blockstack ecosystem to achieve user's data ownership, data encryption and data decentralization. Also, Blockstack allow you to create an identity using a Blockchain. I work full time on this product to make the one I always wished. I started to write every day for more than 1 year and I notice many benefits with this keystone habit. I really want to promote writing activity through Gekri. Beside, I am on my way to implement many features, starting of a mood tracker ;) Ask me anything.