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Discussion on: 5 things learned from launching my first app and getting my first 20 users

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Alex Janke

Looks neat, I like the minimalist look of it. Straight to the point. Maybe add some little icons or something next to the categories? Could look nice.

I noticed one "small" thing though that can backfire pretty hard which a lot of people forget when launching their website:
Please don't collect user data without letting them know. Add a little banner to your page with a reference to your cookie policy where you explain what data you collect. Otherwise, your data collection (google analytics in your case) is straight-up illegal whenever people from Europe connect to your site. Also, did you enable anynomizeIP() in google analytics? This is also a requirement as data cannot be personalized. I honestly couldn't care less about this but if there is a person who is all nitpicky about it they can easily report you

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Jordi Enric

Thank you! I will also change to a privacy first analytics tool soon so I don’t have to show users the cookie notification. I will do the changes you said right now. Thanks for your comment πŸ‘

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Alex Janke

Even if you use a different tool you still have to show a notification. Let me phrase it in pseudo-code:
if (dataCollection.enabled) displayCookieBanner()

You got 3 options:

  • Display the banner, link to your policy and explain what data you collect
  • Reject access to all users from the EU
  • Don't collect any data

I know it's annoying as hell to implement that over and over again but unfortunately, it's required.