Privacy-First Engineering: Why I Built a Period Tracker Without a Database
According to a 2022 study by the Organization for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA), roughly 84% of health-related applications share user data with third-party tracking services. For something as intimate and sensitive as menstrual health, ...
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Sam Rivera
the privacy-first approach resonates. built a quit-smoking tracker 37 days ago after my 4th failed attempt, and one of the main reasons i built my own was that none of the existing apps felt safe to log my daily struggle into. health data is the most intimate kind of data and most apps treat it like just another analytics pipeline. this is the right way to build health tools