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Pithy Alpha

You’re part of Pithy’s private alpha program. Thank you for being an early adopter and helping shape what Pithy becomes!

What “Alpha” Means

Pithy is in active development. This means:

  • Features may change - Pithy is being iterating quickly based on feedback
  • Things might break - You may encounter bugs or rough edges
  • Data is real - Your dashboard and settings are saved, but expect occasional hiccups
  • Your input really matters - Feedback from alpha users directly influences development

What to Expect

During alpha, the focus is:

  1. Core functionality - Getting the dashboard and integrations working reliably and satisfyingly
  2. The assistant - Making Pithy genuinely useful for daily tasks
  3. Performance - Ensuring things feel fast, responsive and intuitive

Some features you see may be experimental. Others may disappear if they don’t work out.

Sharing Feedback

Your feedback is invaluable. Get in touch directly:

General Feedback

For anything else, GitHub issues work great. Even small observations help.

Privacy During Alpha

Privacy and data security have been important at every stage of the work, nevermoreso now that early adopters are arriving. There are more details in the Privacy Policy, but the headlines are:

  • All integrations use the most secure, privacy aware technology available. This generally means oAuth. You enter your credentials on the third-party service’s website, and Pithy only gets an access token.
  • Some use an API key or a username and password, which you need to provide. These are encrypted when they are stored. The key used to encrypt them is stored separately. It would be possible to decrypt the credentials and look at them, but that could not happen accidentally, and it will never happen by design.
  • When Pithy accesses your data, it caches the most recent copy it got, and generates your summary. The next time a panel is updated, the cache is updated with the latest data. So at any given time, pithy will store:
    • The last set of data from the external service
    • The current contents of the connected panel
    • …and that’s it. No harvesting or collecting of your data, ever.

Pithy needs access to lots of things in order to be useful, but it’s still as minimal as it can be in the things it requests and the things it stores.

All that said: Pithy is early in its development. It’s new software, and it will have some bugs. There is therefore some more risk involved in using it, compared to using a mature project. I (Harry) use it every day and trust it with the data it can see, but I probably wouldn’t connect it to anything life, death or especially sensitive. If your Google Drive has people’s medical records in it, perhaps leave that out :)

Thank You

Building something useful takes time and iteration. I’m so grateful for your help.

Welcome to Pithy!