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How would you feel something like Help Jar ( https://helpjar.org ) fits into this space. It's a platform I've created where you can allocate anywhere from 0.1 - 5% of revenue to ca…

Yup exactly, try it out! You open, write a note and close it. All taken care of for you.

Wow that's a slick service. Love it

Hey HN! Happy to be here for another launch. This time I'm showing off PrivaNote, my attempt at a modern day note taking application. A few highlights: - offline first - end-to-end…

Can anyone closer to development of Signal (or who works on it) comment on why the server code was last updated in April (7 months ago https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server )?…

Hey HN, for my last side project of the year I decided to build a much needed piece of infrastructure for the Celo ( https://celo.org ) blockchain ecosystem, an event subscription …

IMO RxDB isn't a competitor here, we're talking about end-to-end encrypted solutions, RxDB is just a way of syncing JSON documents. In that sense Firebase, Parse, deepstream.io all…

Nice! This is actually exactly what Portabella ( https://portabella.io ) started out as around 7 months ago. I found that LocalStorage isn't reliable enough to keep all your import…

My bad, what I meant was "so reliant on others using it"

Fixed, sorry about that one.

Well the primary benefit of Portabella is end-to-end encryption. The reason for e2ee is so you don't have to trust the provider. If you're hosting stuff yourself why wouldn't you t…

Makes sense! We've just launched our Documents feature, aiming to be a G Docs/Confluence alternative. Still early days though!

Not yet, need to add that component. We're using Slate.js under the hood so it doesn't come out of the box.

No way right now. I do think that self hosting takes away most benefits we provide. Hopefully open source soon!

Fixed, I had my webp fallbacks setup wrong.

Thank you thank you! Similar thought process. I _do_ think that enterprise isn't our target market. Any large enough entity should probably self host their stuff, in that case e2ee…

Thanks! Hope you give it a go. I agree I'll rework that a little and focus more on the benefits.

I'm of the opinion that if stuff is not private, people will look at it and exploit it. In 2020 there's no reason we can't offer great UX while being encrypted, so this is my attem…

Hey thanks for the feedback, will jump on this and get that fixed. I agree that is super annoying when it happens.

Yup, no searching across projects right now but for the current project that's loaded you can search it. Collaboration happens via websockets if that answers your question. Payload…

Thanks for the video! Was really interesting, I agree you've highlighted a bunch of improvements I can make. Good luck with future reviews! Will definitely be watching

Hey HN! I've been working on Portabella during my weekends for the last six or so months. The idea is to compete with tools we all know such as Trello/Asana/Jira while being end-to…