NoTranslationL (u/NoTranslationL)

NoTranslationL commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) · Posted by u/david927

I’m working on Reflect [0], it’s a private self discovery and self experimentation app. You can track metrics, set goals, get alerted to anomalies, view correlations, visualize your data, etc.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

NoTranslationL commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

jppope · 2 months ago

really nice, going to give it a try. this solves a problem for me that I honestly started working on fixing myself.

NoTranslationL · 2 months ago

hope you enjoy! let me know if you have any questions. discord is the fastest way to reach me which you can find an invite to in the app

NoTranslationL commented on Ask HN: How are you making money on the side? · Posted by u/arkensaw

NoTranslationL · 2 months ago

I make Reflect with my partner. I do it on the side, they do it fully. It’s a private, local-first app to track and analyze your own personal data and run N=1 experiments.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

NoTranslationL commented on Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale elijahpotter.dev/articles... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott

NoTranslationL · 2 months ago

I purposely did not set up any infrastructure for my iOS app Reflect and made it local-first [0]. I did it so that I could make the app completely private but it’s come with the wonderful side effect that the product is easily horizontally scalable. The only overhead I have for more users is a busier discord channel and so far that community growth has felt very rewarding.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

NoTranslationL commented on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain sailhealth.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/glasscannon

NoTranslationL · 2 months ago

I make an app called Reflect [0] that’s designed to track things like chronic pain and help you get to the root cause with self guided experiments. I’ve used it for my own pain symptoms, especially joint pain. Happy to answer any questions. Wish you the best on your journey.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

NoTranslationL commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

jesse__ · 2 months ago

I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy. https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.

https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof

NoTranslationL · 2 months ago

It looks wonderful, well done on the design

NoTranslationL commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

ihodes · 2 months ago

Very cool app. Is there a way to periodically import from a Google Sheets spreadsheet? I track a bunch of things there on a daily basis and would love to have those pulled into this application.

NoTranslationL · 2 months ago

Yes, there is CSV import. I’d eventually like to have a google sheets integration that syncs regularly with it

NoTranslationL commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) · Posted by u/david927

NoTranslationL · 2 months ago

I’m working on Reflect [0], it’s a private self discovery and self experimentation app. You can track metrics, set goals, get alerted to anomalies, view correlations, visualize your data, etc.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...

NoTranslationL commented on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety cam.ac.uk/research/news/m... · Posted by u/Improvement

hamburglar · 3 months ago

A lot of things I clicked on just led to an upsell page that wanted me to do a week trial that led to a $49 monthly, which surprised me since I hadn’t even begun to explore and only had a single metric which I’d never even recorded a datapoint for. And it seemed like I only was allowed to define a single metric, so I tried to delete it in order to create a new one, but clicking “delete” on it was apparently a premium feature as well. I gave up.

You really need to let people actually use the product with no commitment, see how it’s useful, and then bug them a month later.

Btw, I found a bug: on the page where there are three big buttons and the third is “load a csv”, the csv button isn’t clickable. Only the icon on it is.

NoTranslationL · 3 months ago

Thanks for all that feedback! One minor point is that the 49.99 is annual. You can define and record unlimited metrics and data on the free version so if you can’t then that’s a bug for sure. Also, noted regarding the import bug, thanks for that.

NoTranslationL commented on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety cam.ac.uk/research/news/m... · Posted by u/Improvement

fragmede · 3 months ago

What homomorphic encryption technology have you looked into using? this is a good use case for that technology.

NoTranslationL · 3 months ago

I agree it could make sense one day but, as I mentioned in another thread, we don't have any servers and so we don't collect or host any user data (encrypted or not). In fact, I really don't want to; it's overhead and costly, and might involve compliance with HIPAA or GDPR, and I just would rather the user be in charge of their own data.

Having FHE for local data would be very interesting though.