Inspired by Facebook's whistleblower confession about how Facebook cares more about negative content and doesn't care about privacy, I decided to create an open-source chat app.
This chat app doesn't save any history in the database. Chat history is active as long as you are in the conversation screen, once you go back or exit it, history disappears.
I made it open-source because I want people to be able to see how their data is being used and to see the truth behind the scene. By not open-sourcing the code it would by only my word "I'm not saving history", in this way it's tangible. For me it's about transparency and privacy. Not only privacy in terms of what data is being stored and where but also how safe and private is the data on people's phones.
I published the backend part on GitHub, the app is coming soon.
Hit me up when you lauch. Looking forward to it. Like your vision!
I will ;)
Not to burst your bubble, but you can already have chats with disappearing text on Signal (end-to-end encrypted). In fact, you can also have end-to-end encrypted chats with disappearing messages on FB Messenger.
Signal is open source: https://github.com/signalapp
True, but for me it's not about disappearing, it's about not saving them at all anywhere, ever. And on top of that being transparent about it