raae / pow-app

Take charge of your menstrual cycle with POW! — the privacy-first menstrual cycle journal
https://www.usepow.app/
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POW! Angels copy #42

Closed raae closed 4 years ago

raae commented 4 years ago

Help me make the best possible privacy-first menstrual tracker by becoming a POW! Angel

As you might know, I am working towards an official pow launch on March 8th (also known as International Women's Day).

Some of you have said to me, "Benedicte, I did not realize you were such a prude! Why do you mind so much that people might find out when you are next menstruating? "

Let me start by informing you that these apps do way more than logging the days you menstruate. They ask you to record if you are feeling excited, tired, anxious, horny, the quality and quantity of your sex life and if you remembered to use protection. And even more!

For me, the journey started with a personal want for a more straightforward tool. The level of detail made me less inclined to use the apps; it also felt creepy, a little invasive.

It turned out my intuition (and maybe yours) was right.

In February, the Wall Street Journal came out with a report that popular health apps, period trackers among them, were leaking data to Facebook Analytics.

Then in September, BuzzFeed broke the news that several tracker apps were basing their business on selling their users' cycle data. No wonder they want you to be so specific.

Then again, just now, in November, an Australian journalist told the world about her experience with her Internet life turning into a nightmare of smiling mothers and babies after forgetting to log her cycle. Her app had concluded she must be pregnant and let third parties in on this «secret» she herself did not know.

You might still think, «You prude, I still don't mind if someone gets access to this data about me.»

And that is ok; you do you!

But please keep in mind some menstruaters live in countries without worker's protection or reproductive rights at the level you probably enjoy.

Or you might be thinking, "Whoa, this is just creepy and wrong!"

With this crowdfunding, I am inviting you to join the movement for less intrusive and more private apps.

I hope to come up with a business model that takes into account the menstruators that, for various reasons, cannot pay. They might not have access to a credit card; they might not want their partner or family to know by way of credit card statements, or they might not have the money for it.

As a POW! Angel, you get to kickstart this by buying lifetime access for yourself and/or other people who self identify as not being able to pay.

I plan to develop both the business and the app in the open. By doing so, I hope to demonstrate that people are willing to pay for privacy and educate the community around POW! about why privacy is important and how to go about it.

However, the first order of business is to get POW! ready for an official launch March 8th, and with your help:

POW! Bronze Angel 500 NOK - 15 spots

POW! Silver Angel 2000 NOK - 10 spots

POW! Gold Angel 5000 NOK - 5 spots

POW! Diamond Angel 35.000 NOK - 3 spots

You have until December X to become a POW! Angel, and if you do know that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

olavea commented 4 years ago

line 38: "Get external help where needed." I suggest: "Get expert help because I need some of the best developers to help me make some things turn out as good as I want them to be."

olavea commented 4 years ago

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POW! Paper Angel 99 NOK - 33 spots

olavea commented 4 years ago

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POW! Crown Jewel Angel 35.000 NOK - 3 spots

olavea commented 4 years ago

I would suggest fewer spots POW! Diamond Angel should have only 1 (one) spot.

You can still have more than one Angel on Diamond, if they all say yes to it in a dialog with you. Like this: B: Hi Diamond Angel, this is awkvard, but I have one more lady who wants to become Diamond Angel, how do you feel? Would you be ok with one more Diamond Angel? Diamond Angel: Ok then, if you talk to the others.

Exclusivity is exclusive, but not a prison.

POW! Gold Angel should have only 1 (one) spot. also. For the same reasons.

Added benefit and maybe the most important point is. As a future Angel your only REAL choice is between two options: Bronze Angel and Silver Angel. A choice between two options is best for good decision making.

Here are my spot suggestions:

Bronze Angel - 3 spots Silver Angel - 2 spots Gold Angel - 1 spots Diamond Angel - 1 spots Paper Angel - 33 spots (ikke så synlig, akurat som den gratisversjonen av Highrise)

Total spots: 40 48 800 er tot NOK, og er DET nok for at du skal drive dev part time? 1 500= 500 NOK - 3 spots 4 000= 2000 NOK - 2 spots 5 000 NOK - 1 spots 35 .000 NOK - 1 spots 3 300= 33 NOK - 99 spots