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@cobyism — Product designer / developer.
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Comment · 9 days ago
RFC 1149.5 FTW
Comment · 19 days ago
I see that in addition to the Adobe suite apps last week, they've also now done implementations of excel/spreadsheet (https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft), powerpoint/presentation (https://github.com/storytold/deckcraft), and also AutoCAD/3D modeling (https://github.com/storytold/cadcraft) as well.
What a time to be alive.
Comment · 1 month ago
Directionally similar discussion to the goals of Open Knowledge Format (OKF) markdown bundles, by the sound of it? See https://okf.md and https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blo...
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes? Anyone else tried out https://quilter.ai (physics-driven AI PCB layout tool)?
Comment · 1 year ago
Viewing this incorrectly flags my primary browser into the infinite tarpit but not a different browser. Perhaps a little too aggressive or not discerning enough?
Comment · 3 years ago
Why US-only?
Comment · 3 years ago
Perhaps you might be referring to something closer to Gamergaters?
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting when taken together with things like the story from the other day about emerging AI/ML-based acoustic keystroke attacks against, which mentioned being trainable via Zoom calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013704 / https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-acoustic-...
Comment · 3 years ago
Also Simplenote from the Automattic folks: https://simplenote.com/developers/
Comment · 3 years ago
Kudos for building a thing! Forgive the terse feedback, but I figure you wouldn’t post here if you weren’t seeking it. Quick thoughts:
A) Without providing a viable option for mobile (or even via a web UI on mobile), my guess would be that a desktop-client-only solution (like this appears to be?) is going to be a non-starter for a significant number of your potential audience. To me, cross-platform doesn’t just mean cross-desktop-OS - If something says cross-platform my personal expectation is that means desktop/mobile/web.
B) If your top-level value proposition is a focus on privacy and security, people are naturally going to ask further questions about the details. For example: - What encryption is being used here, and how? - If data isn’t stored on external servers, how do “your notes sync effortlessly”? What mechanism makes it possible to “access your data from any device, anywhere”? - How do I get my data OUT of this thing, if I decide it isn’t right for me?
C) If you’re going to go down the “unlike other note-taking platforms” route, it might be valuable to explicitly help people make the comparison in terms of features/approaches/architecture/trade-offs etc. How should one compare this against [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md)? [Simplenote](https://simplenote.com)? [Logseq](https://logseq.com/)? [Zettlr](https://www.zettlr.com/)? [Standard Notes](https://standardnotes.com)? Notion/Google Keep/Evernote/Workflowy/Dynalist etc?
Comment · 3 years ago
Needs a `really` operator for scale.