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This concept sounds great. I despise Xero, and felt the same about QuickBooks before it. "Linear for accounting" basically already has me sold. Just please make it work for UK companies some time (from a YC22 Founder).

Love the concept, but if the core developers don't rely on direct relationships with non-government customers, then I assume this software is unlikely to meet my needs as a startup founder (or the need of most other readers here on HN).

Governments make perverse customers with needs and incentives that don't align with other regular users and customers, in my experience. So the lack of a paid hosted version of Docs is concerning to me in terms of their priorities, quality, and the future product focus of this otherwise promising (and much needed) app.

Tldr: being customer-focused and having a product led organizational culture is unlikely if you're building for government.

Can somebody explain core use-cases? Postgres UIs of various flavours are already pretty numerous. Is this for developers? BI people? Is it intended to run on existing production databases or only new small databases used exclusively by Mathesar itself?

No answers like "you can use it for anything" or "it's up to you" or "just like Airtable" please.

I'm interested in real world, specific use cases, so readers can position this app and figure out if it has any value for them.

I got married in Denmark for this reason. Super easy. Costs plenty. Smart economic strategy.

Awesome it's AGPL3 licensed

Please don't only offer registration via Google. That's bad for you. Bad for users. And very bad for the world. Yes it's cheap. And also catastrophic.

This has been bugging me for at least a decade. Hallelujah for the fix!

We've been using Zulip at our startup for 2.5 years now and still generally love it.

We self host and haven't had any issues with that (pretty much zero maintenance so far). The Android app is awesome.

Searching messages sucks, and I don't know if Slack bots and apps are compatible.

Pretty much everything else is great, and we greatly prefer it to Slack and Mattermost (both of which we used before for years).

We are fans of the clean docs experience this produces. Works great with Postman.

Unfortunately 50% of the world's mailboxes are hosted by 2 companies. That means the open internet is far as email goes is already dead in practical terms for most people. When they block another host that host no longer has email network access.

That's a problem this app is trying to solve actually. You're thinking of brute force attacks or something else? Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.

Yes running your own mail is still hard, and our approach is to manage and automate existing MTAs via an Open Source app: Lightmeter.io. Maddy looks great, and necessary. For people wanting to stick with Postfix, Lightmeter is worth a look. FYI we recently did the YC S21 interview but flunked the last hurdle this time around.

Delta.chat looks similar to mail.app. Basically a WhatsApp UI for email. Open Source and E2EE.

Brilliant writing from the Atlantic.