[HN Gopher] Are we making the best notion open source alternative?
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Are we making the best notion open source alternative?
Author : entherhe
Score : 14 points
Date : 2024-01-20 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (affine.pro)
(TXT) w3m dump (affine.pro)
| nathan_phoenix wrote:
| Debated if to click the link after reading the clickbait
| headline, but after playing around with it for a few mins seems
| actually quite decent!
|
| Obviously missing some features compared to Notion, but
| surprisingly not that many, especially compared to the other
| Notion alternatives. And style wise seems quite polished.
| georgespencer wrote:
| Excited to try this!
|
| A few years ago someone gave me the excellent advice that I
| should stop saying "no" to fractional roles I was unenthusiastic
| about, and instead price them accordingly.
|
| The first thing I did was to stipulate a $500 daily surcharge for
| any gigs expecting me to use Notion.
|
| I won't recapitulate the miserable design of Notion's janky non-
| native desktop app for macOS, but just this week, my calendar
| (cron) asked me to "refresh to update the app".
|
| After that it asked me to restart the app.
|
| After that it had disappeared from my dock, and apparently my
| entire Mac.
|
| Turns out Notion acquired it, and thought the best way to tell me
| was to use the update to silently update the app, install a new
| binary (???) and delete the old one.
|
| Except it crashed half way through, so I had no idea.
|
| Everything those people touch--from "the concept of an enumerated
| list" to "a popular indie calendar"--seems to be rushed in
| execution and badly designed from the start.
| j45 wrote:
| Offline-first is a must have.
| acheong08 wrote:
| Sync server appears to be open source as well! Much better than
| Logseq/Obsidian when it comes to that. Thank you!
| ccakes wrote:
| Also has a self-hosted version however it's a bit out of date
| with their SaaS product
|
| https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE#self-host
| zamalek wrote:
| Anytype doesn't _require_ cloud storage or a subscription - each
| device I have is an E2E encrypted replicated backup. Cloud
| storage is merely extra peace of mind (your free tier is more
| generous). While I understand that you're trying an open source
| business model, Anytype is extremely hard to beat; especially
| from a data sovereignty perspective.
|
| P2P sync is a must.
| rubymamis wrote:
| I'm creating a Notion alternative based on Qt C++ and QML called
| Plume. In my benchmarks, it is the fastest block editor there is.
| It's based upon my previous open source note-taking app. But I
| will most likely make Plume either close source or open-core (not
| entirely sure about it). I made a short video showing the new
| Kanban feature I've been working on
| https://www.loom.com/share/b40009316f6b420b9ece15a1f99e987c
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| Some people recently said I'm over promoting my app, but I can't
| see how this will be considered spam if it's exactly the ballpark
| of my app. Therefore, I'm reluctant to share any more links here.
| So based on the comments, I'll update this post.
| pedalpete wrote:
| I'm curious about your pricing. Is that $8 (does anybody actually
| do the x.99 crap anymore?) per user? If so, you need to make that
| clearer. What happens when I have more than 10 users?
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