Show HN: Wishy.gift – A privacy-first wishlist service

wishy.gift

7 pointsdanielskogly3 comments

Hi HN! I’m the creator of Wishy.gift, which is a very simple and privacy-friendly wishlist service. You can create wishlists, and invite friends and family by giving them the unique URL generated for each list. They can then check off what they want to give, which will be visible to other participants, and not you.

I store all email addresses hashed with a fixed salt and SHA512, which isn’t encryption, but makes it more difficult for any attacker or unlikely future buyer of the service to use the addresses directly.

The only revenue is generated through affiliate links, and all tracking options provided to me have been disabled.

I really like the clean design and immediate access to the demo. When you say privacy-first do you mean the items are encrypted or that you promise not to collect data?

Thank you, I’m glad to hear that! With privacy-first I mean that I don’t collect any data other than what’s needed for the service to function, as well as keeping the site completely free from any ads or tracking scripts :)

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