Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server

Post by nstart » Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 5:58 AM UTC

brightball wrote: post #64

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> Time and again I keep being impressed with your selfless commitment to building and sharing things in the most humane and long-term way. And yet they haven't open sourced the app. That would be truly humane and long-term. As it is, it's just another proprietary app that, if it dies, can't be continued by the community. I don't think monetary issues should be a concern with open sourcing the app - companies like Bit…

If it dies I’ll still have all of my content in easily portable markdown though.

Post by hyperific » Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 6:37 AM UTC

kepano wrote: post #31

(Obsidian CEO here) Impressive! It's fun to see the diversity of ways people sync/backup their Obsidian files. The nice thing about storing all your notes on your device is that it makes it possible to move and edit your Markdown files in many different ways. That diversity of solutions is what makes the ecosystem of Markdown tools resilient over the long term. There are already a handful of tools that allow you to s…

Post by Already__Taken » Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 7:24 AM UTC

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Yeah I can think of 30 different ways to make the sync work, but I can't be bothered to, Sync works really well, and I feel like financially supporting the Obsidian team in some way. $8/month is a bit steep, but I snatched $5/month early bird pricing and I consider that to be a lot more acceptable of a price. Edit: worth pointing out there's a 40% discount for non-profits and students: https://help.obsidian.md/Licens…

It kind of boggles my mind when people say 8$/month is steep. I get that we don't all live in rich countries, but still. If you are using a tool everyday this is really not much. I think we have been conditioned to expect software to be free. Maybe because there is nothing tangible? It's also hard to do micro payments on the internet ironically, on that 8$ you can easily pay almost a dollar of fees. If that wasnt the…

Post by nsteel » Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 7:48 AM UTC

Sytten wrote: post #90

input_sh wrote: post #23

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Yeah I can think of 30 different ways to make the sync work, but I can't be bothered to, Sync works really well, and I feel like financially supporting the Obsidian team in some way. $8/month is a bit steep, but I snatched $5/month early bird pricing and I consider that to be a lot more acceptable of a price. Edit: worth pointing out there's a 40% discount for non-profits and students: https://help.obsidian.md/Licens…

It kind of boggles my mind when people say 8$/month is steep. I get that we don't all live in rich countries, but still. If you are using a tool everyday this is really not much. I think we have been conditioned to expect software to be free. Maybe because there is nothing tangible? It's also hard to do micro payments on the internet ironically, on that 8$ you can easily pay almost a dollar of fees. If that wasnt the…

Post by flexagoon » Fri, Aug 25, 2023, 4:50 PM UTC

gandalfgreybeer wrote: post #122

kepano wrote: post #70

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This is very hard for us to do because we want to remain a small team — it will introduce a lot of complexity for payments/localization

I never tried Obsidian because the recurring price was too steep for me and I understand that localization will be a challenge. I do have to say, however, that your responses here actually sound sincere (and the reaction to OP's project is something I would not have expected) to the point that if I really need something similar to your product, I am definitely reconsidering. I wish you and your team good luck.