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I can remember two questions from Michael Seibel: 1) He asked something about if I was going to find a co-founder or not. I think I said that we started getting traction pretty fas…

See my comment to @Syrusakbary

When I asked some of my partners what it was about me/my application that got us in, this is what I heard: 1. We had revenue, meaning we weren't afraid to charge. Many first founde…

That's right! We made a bet on collaboration because everyone was already doing single player. Now there are even more single-player tools, they are all still competing with each o…

Updated the end of post: > Shout out to Syrus Akbury (W19), Ian Tien (S12), and Taariq Lewis (S15) for encouraging me to apply and helping me with my application way back when :) B…

This was my first application to YC.

Amazing work!

Thank Ben :)

Also confused here. Slide 7 [0] says seed funding of $1.8M, but Airbyte is also calling the most recent round a $5M seed. Implies they will call the first round Pre-Seed retroactiv…

Hey! Founder of Athens here, we just launched on HN 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316793 Agree with your comment. What we've found is that most people don't a…

True. Roam Extensions have been poorly managed so far, making it extremely difficult for extension developers to develop and maintain. Maybe that'll change, but an open platform is…

Yup, still thinking about pricing and features. Working on the privacy policy and ToS this week.

This is my first time hearing of Sandstorm! Their page https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works writes: > For example, when using Etherpad – a document editor app – on Sandstorm, every do…

Very curious, can you elaborate on these principles? i.e. academic design vs SaaS?

https://twitter.com/flancian is working on a generic tech that would bridge notetaking apps together. The important syntax we all agree on is [[wikilinks]] and some subset of markd…

The first time I used Tiddly years ago, the UX never resonated with me so I wasn't able to get over the learning curve. More recently, one of our users gave me a pretty detailed to…

Emacs/org-mode is pretty optimized for singleplayer, technical users, and plain-text. Further down the road, we hope to support APIs/integrations, collaboration, and rich media, an…

* Currently `index.transit` is the source of truth. When a user sees new changes, their current db is saved, and they have the option of opening the new one or continuing to edit t…

Ah, very good to know. Don't use Roam too much these days ;) Sometimes it's hard to know if their performance issues stem from networking (they use Firebase) or just client stuff (…

Well the other aspect of it is that DataScript is client-side. That said, we could use sqlite in browser or even IndexedDB at this point. Yes, a pure JS/TS alternative without a gr…

EDN import is done, just want to improve performance in Athens as most Roam dbs are bigger. I know Roam users will have higher expectations :) https://github.com/athensresearch/ath…

Simplicity wins. Pencil and paper FTW

We have athensresearch.org and athens-research.com, neither of which I love. We actually do use Electron! ClojureScript compiles to JS at the end of the day. Ultimately Clojure is …