Ask HN: Are there any companies doing good work in this space?
I'm looking for a new gig and have been shocked at how few companies seem to understand the types of solutions that stand a chance at making a difference re: these sorts of problems.
This would be a cool metric to use in various analyses. It's a number that's guaranteed to be shrinking fast in today's world and I'd bet there's a quality-of-life benefit to be had by trying to optimize for growing it rather than shrinking it.
Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thank you for all the feedback. I'm slowly working my way through everything and finding it all extremely helpful. I'll make sure to document the changes that have been made in response to this discussion.
As an aside, I realized when I logged into this account to post that I created my Hackernews account over a decade ago, and scrolling through my post history and coming across the multiple Show HN news posts I've done throughout that time, thinking about the successes and failures I've had with those old projects, and realizing that this community has been here the whole damn time, being as generous and constructive and open-minded as it ever was... that's really cool.
Thank you everyone for being part of one of the best communities on the entire internet. Y'all are too good.
Glad to hear it! And thank you for the feedback. Mobile is a whole can of worms I have no idea how I'm going to tackle yet, but it's certainly part of the plan.
As for the "for free" part, that's funny, because I had it the way you're suggesting originally but changed it to this based on someone else's feedback :P
This is super helpful to hear, thank you! I'm like you, I like using products that feel like they've been built by people rather than faceless companies, so I felt like this would be good to share.
To answer the question, Lunette would ideally be a combination of local and cloud and be available via web and native app. One product I tried that did this was Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/), but the problem was they made you choose because the two (either saved to the cloud OR locally), whereas I think it'd work better if those two worked hand in hand. But that's complicated to build and beyond the scope of a proof of concept.
Ultimately I went with the web app because that's my skillset and I figured the best first step was seeing if it's even something people would use.
If I'm being perfectly honest, it never even occurred to me to consider the open source route. I'm not opposed to open source at all--I've done in the past--but one issue could be that I might loose the ability to be highly opinionated about the evolution of the product, and I think in this space where there are already a ton of "do a lot of things halfway decently" products, being opinionated about what Lunette is and is not could be key to its success.
I think my favorite part about doing this Show HN is all the interesting products I'm discovering, and seeing all the different ways people approach this space and this problem.
Interesting, I never came across this one in my search. I'm gonna give it a try, I'm curious to see how it compares.
I did try out a couple other editors that leaned on markdown though with mixed results.
One thing that stands out to me in particular with iA is the way they've implemented (at least based on the homepage video) note linking. That click-through implementation forces you to leave your document, which is something we explicitly didn't want, since typically what you're doing is scanning through your notes and your document simultaneously while you work out how everything fits together.
I'm looking for a new gig and have been shocked at how few companies seem to understand the types of solutions that stand a chance at making a difference re: these sorts of problems.