Hippo

Keep track of friends, family and colleagues you care for.

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Keep track of friends, family and colleagues you care for.

7 followers

Keep track of friends, family and colleagues you care for. Make notes, keep track of events and store to-dos for all your contacts. So next time you meet, you remember all their important details.

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Is this somewhat of a personal CRM? I have been looking for something in that space. I am less concerned about forgetting birthdays, but would like to see something that gives reminders and notifications to just catch up with people, I haven't spoken to in a while. Also, ideally would want the app to know when i called, messaged, and emailed them last. So i am not entering this info manually.

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

@salil_sethi Hi Salil, yes you could see Hippo as a personal CRM. Currently it has mostly manual tracking features. It's not yet able to notify you to speak to someone because you haven't called him in 3 months or something like that.

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6yr ago

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@nathan_ganser Thank you. I just subscribed :)

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6yr ago

@roelvanderkraan This would be an awesome feature though, it would definitely facilitate long term usage of the app for me.

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6yr ago

Hoverify

Congrats on launch! 🎊 Following your development on makerlog from a long time. Do you plan on releasing on android?

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

@zicsus Thanks Himanshu! 🥳 No Android version anytime soon I'm afraid, I'm glad to have finished a decent app in Swift 😁 A Mac version is next on my list. And depending on how that all goes I might consider Android too..

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

Hi 👋, I’m Roel I'm very excited to share the app I've been working on the past months: Hippo. An app that helps you remember all the important things about the persons you care for. 🤯 My problem: forgetting things all the time I have been struggling with my memory at work and in my personal life. I used to forget children’s names, someone's job, birthdays, anniversaries and other important life events. This made me insecure and unhappy. Because I like to be attentive and thoughtful! So, I started tracking notes linked to persons in a simple Airtable database and that helped me a lot! I decided to turn that idea into an app. Go from forgetful 😬💭 to attentive 🤗💬 With the Hippo app, you can keep track of your friends, family and loved ones. • Refresh your memory before you meet. • Make notes after you have met. • Create events to remind yourself of important dates. • Use to-dos so you don't forget to keep in touch Next time you meet, a glance at the person's profile in Hippo is all you need to remember the details! 🔒 Privacy Similar apps often require full access to your address book and store your data on their servers. I'm always scared away by that, so I took extra care of privacy. Your data is only stored on your device. I don't operate any servers for Hippo. You don't need an account. And access to your Contacts is optional. I'm looking forward to your questions and feedback!

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6yr ago

@roelvanderkraan Appreciate your respect for privacy. So many apps these days are just shameless. Oh, you wanna play tetris? Cool, allow our app to make outgoing calls.

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

@mooooorrisjjj LOL :) Yeah it's really a no-no for me when an app requests permission to my entire phone book before I had the chance to try it out.

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6yr ago

Looks great - would be cool if you could sync the events with your Google calendar - and yes, I add my family and friend events to Google Calendar

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

@ivanbrezakbrkan Yes calendar integration is high on my prio list! What kind of events do you track in your calendar?

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6yr ago

@roelvanderkraan In this case, meeting the people either offline or online. For example, a friend moved to Ireland and we had a Facetime call yesterday. Would be great to have that as an event in Hippo so I can track it.

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

@ivanbrezakbrkan Got it! Yes I'm planning to add something like that soon.

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6yr ago

This is brilliant Roel. This idea has been on my project list for ages as I have a similar struggle with memory - your execution is spot on!

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

@samcuth Wow thanks! Glad you like it 🙏 I hope Hippo can help you with your struggles 😁

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6yr ago

Been wanting such an app since forever (I add a lot of notes to my contacts but it's not ideal) and am SO bummed it's for iOS only 😢

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6yr ago

Hippo

Maker

@anna_0x Sorry Anna! You're not the only one I'm afraid 😬

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6yr ago

@roelvanderkraan have you looked into languages/frameworks that let you create an app that works on both iOS and Android? I’m not a developer myself so I cannot comment on their ease of use, but I know it’s possible 😅

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6yr ago