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Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

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Re: Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

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Post by nathanstitt »

thijsmie wrote: post #10

Interesting! Will try this soon, I have very similar gripes with nextcloud et al that you mentioned. The lock in to postmark I don't love, I think I would rather have it be a SMTP+IMAP "proxy" so I can use my existing email service within the suite of apps seamlessly.

yep i know postmark wont be everyone’s fave. i’ve abstracted all that to a single golang interface so it’d be easy to swap out. i’ll probably write a pure SMTP version as an example soon

Re: Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

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Post by nathanstitt »

betimsl wrote: post #11

PocketBase is awesome and this thing looks awesome. One question, I could not understand if a mail provider is needed or it handles on its own?

currently only supports postmark but based on the conversions here i’m thinking expanding that will probably be the next thing i implement

Re: Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

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Post by nathanstitt »

atmanactive wrote: post #9

This looks awesome, thank you. Kudos for supporting dark mode out of the box. Looking forward to seeing calendar and drive catching up to full dark mode.

thanks! it also has the ability for user themes but they are fairly weak. really only supports setting color swatches

Re: Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

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Post by sedimannapoleon »

nathanstitt wrote: post #13
betimsl wrote: post #11

PocketBase is awesome and this thing looks awesome. One question, I could not understand if a mail provider is needed or it handles on its own?

currently only supports postmark but based on the conversions here i’m thinking expanding that will probably be the next thing i implement

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Re: Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

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Post by dvirdung »

nathanstitt wrote: post #4
dvirdung wrote: post #3

Interesting. I've tried owncloud, nextcloud, and other similar "all-in-one" solutions in the past. None ever stuck with me, for various reasons I cannot remember. I just might try this out on a weekend when I have some free time.

excellent, I've also tried all the products you mention but they all felt either too heavy or limited to me. I'd love any feedback you can offer, GitHub issues are open if you hit bugs.

Stared the repo for now, will give it a spin in this or next weekend I hope :)

Re: Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS

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Post by nathanstitt »

gbalduzzi wrote: post #18

I have seen lately a number of new productivity suite. How is the Microsoft Office compatibility managed by these tools? There is a popular SDK providing the compatibility? I can't imagine everyone reimplementing the full compatibility layer

Good question, TinyCld does uses docx/xlsx files on the drive package as the native storage for text/calc. Drive is exported via webdav so doing so lets native clients load the files as well. Locking is used though so web & native _hopefully_ do not conflict.

Text uses https://github.com/ZeroHawkeye/wordZero to read/write the docx, parse it into a y-prosemirror and served with yjs to clients using https://github.com/skyterra/y-crdt

And Calc uses https://github.com/xuri/excelize using the same techniques but uses plain Yjs Y.Map/Y.Array using a sparsely populated table

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