Show HN: Colanode, open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative

  • Congratulations on your launch, the animation makes it seem like a neat product!

    I don't think I've ever seen a "coming soon" pricing page before <https://colanode.com/pricing/>

    For my curiosity, your readme mentions Valkey but the docker compose uses Redis - is that on purpose? https://github.com/colanode/colanode/blob/v0.1.3/docker-comp...

    You will also almost certainly want to either use the Apache 2 version of Minio[1] or label that dependency as AGPLv3 to ensure folks are aware. I would also recommend always pinning image versions, because you don't control what that project does or doesn't do in releases

    1: https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/RELEASE.2021-04-22T15-44...

  • Do you have plans for mobile app? It looks really useful but the two places I would use it would both require I mobile app before I could switch to it.

  • This looks very interesting purely because I can just about see from the very fast gif on the README that it has tasks in there, how much of a first class citizen they are of the app could be really important. It blows my mind that both Slack and Notion have such half-arsed task implementations - every time I need to introduce better, asynchronous task assignments at work I get pushback over "people won't use yet another app" - and sure enough, getting people to assign me something rather than @ notifying me while I'm nose deep in code of something that needs doing in a few days time has been impossible. A single app that lets a team manage work without constant interruptions would be the dream.

  • Looks nice! Would wait for the documentation to learn more.

    How does this compare to Notesnook? I have found that to be the best in terms of getting the details right (However, the last I checked, the documentation for self-hosting was unclear, and there were bugs in data exporting).

    https://notesnook.com/

  • This looks great, it's a crowded field but there's still a lot of room for improvement.

    The most important question before I'd try this is, do real time cross platform notifications work? If yes, how did you solve this for people self hosting?

  • These products are neat, but what about the data?

    Notion is a tragedy when it comes to export or migration.

    I didn’t see any bragging about the exportability of content from this one, but that’s the main thing I look for now.

  • Is there a name for this new-age method of notes/webpage/data productivity genre? They all seem to have "write with /" to insert "block" content.

    I am trying wrap my head around what they are. The seem to be "docs" on the web. Then they also have this "inline page" feature which is a fancy include. Then have a table insert with a relation feature. Then they have a dynamic view layout engine on a table.

  • Anything that starts as Open source but is clearly meant to be a for profit product makes me sceptical.

    The page has a link "Pricing" that takes to a page that says its coming up.

    Well I will wait and see what and how the pricing structure will be revealed.

    It is a product that easily lends itself to being a "little vit free and open source" and then all the for profit add ons are $$$$$ and not open sourced .

  • How does Colanode manage conflict resolution between local and server data when syncing after offline edits, especially for structured databases and pages powered by Yjs?

  • I'm excited to try this out! (seems to have some bandwidth issues, currently downloading at 24KB/s)

    Is SSO implemented or planned in the near future? I feel that colanode would be a great fit for our start-up

  • > Colanode consists of a Node.js server API and an Electron desktop client

    Is the Electron app a necessity or is using a browser possible as well?

  • Would it be possible to allow us to set our own custom fonts and color scheme (without having to fork it)?

  • Hello! How does this compare to Huly?

  • Have you thought about adding programmable logic or automations between nodes?

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