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Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#91
I'm a tad confused by a few things.

Is this meant to be a cool tech demo, or a real product? I noticed the author mentioned adding new features and a premium version in another comment. This leads me to believe it's intended to be a real product.

With that in mind, I have a few questions:

1. If this is inspired by Notational Velocity, a very popular and real product, why is this also named Notational? I understand if you're doing a cool tech demo that it's not a big deal, but if you plan to charge money for this you probably shouldn't copy their name.

2. Was "Notational Velocity but real-time" your hypothesis of what would make this something people want to use/buy? If so, what about all the other very standard features that note-taking and thought storage apps have? Do you plan to hit baseline with those?

3. How do you compete with the larger companies who offer these apps for free to their users? Google Keep, Apple Notes, etc.

4. Is the real-time feature the only way you plan to make this different/better than the others?

I'm not trying to be a downer here, but I feel like I see "X app but real-time" posted to HN on a weekly basis now, like it being real-time is going to be the differentiator that makes it wildly popular. Those products then go on to ignore half the reasons why the others have users. Even if they reach feature parity, their one differentiator is "well, it's real-time". I'm not sure that's enough.

If this is just meant to be a cool demo of Vue.js (with an awesome homepage), well done, ignore my comments =)

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#92
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendation for a companion iOS app to sync with NValt?

1Writer[1] is the best I've tried, assuming you're using Dropbox for sync. [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1writer-note-taking-writing-...

And Brett Terpstra -- the programmer of nvAlt -- uses 1Writer as well. He reviewed 1Writer in 2015 and continues to recommend it.

http://brettterpstra.com/2015/01/28/my-pick-for-best-ios-nva...

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#93
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Vue.js is awesome! I am glad to see so many more people adopting it for serious projects.

What are your favourite libraries/extensions (for want of a better term) to use with it? I'm on my first VueJS 2 project, and found a number which are abandoned...

I'd recommend checking out Vue CLI for structured Vue apps (https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli). There are plenty of tutorials on using vue-router and vuex with it. Addy Osmani mentioned a progressive web app template at Google IO recently (https://github.com/vuejs-templates/pwa) which gives you things like Service Worker etc

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#94
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you use some kind of UI framework? Is it just bootstrap? This design is awesome. I _love_ the minimal direction we're heading.

Thanks! No UI framework just custom SCSS. Thinking about turning it into a micro-framework if I have time.

Your `palette` function is super dope. I'm gonna use that.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#96
Have trolls taken over the comment forums here? This example is hardly anything more than any other TODO example provided by React, Ember, Angular or anything else for that matter. I must be missing something clearly an app such as this couldn't cause such excitement among the HackerNews community?

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#97

Have trolls taken over the comment forums here? This example is hardly anything more than any other TODO example provided by React, Ember, Angular or anything else for that matter. I must be missing something clearly an app such as this couldn't cause such excitement among the HackerNews community?

Chris, I see what you're saying but I think that take is a bit cynical.

To me it always feels legit when someone creates a side project as an exploration and wants to share it here no matter how sophisticated or innovative it turns out to be.

I like to think that we all share at least some bond where we can be open and honest with our creativity, and not really care about making money or other metrics that we have to care about in real life.

I called you cynical, maybe my thought is too idealistic, I understand that. Just a thought

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#100
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Vue.js is awesome! I am glad to see so many more people adopting it for serious projects.

I've used Vue for a couple projects now and it's my favorite SPA framework by far. But I liked Knockout too, and now that feels abandoned, and I'm afraid Vue will suffer the same fate. Will it really stick around in the face of React, Angular, and Ember? I feel like there is only room for so many frameworks. So I'm a little nervous to recommend Vue for really large projects. Can anyone offer a good reason why I shoul…

Just my intuitive impression: The VueJS community is already so big that I think its reached escape velocity. It's bigger than Knockout ever was. By now, there's enough invested in vue-based apps that if anything were to happen to the core team, multiple parties would come out of the woodwork to keep it going - it's already too valuable to allow it to die.
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