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Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by bjoernm »

samat wrote: post #9

Tried it some months ago and preferred Notion. Is there a comparison with pros and cons?

Thanks for giving us a try! It would be awesome to hear more about your experience. If you're up for a quick chat, just send me an email.

Obviously I'm highly biased regarding a direct comparison, but here are some thoughts:

Overall we're trying to provide a simpler and faster experience. For example, our editor is just a single stream of content blocks, providing consistency and a fast editing experience. In Notion the editor has more complexity with adjustable multi-column layouts, page header images, etc. If you don't require those formatting options, I'd argue Nuclino is a better fit.

By providing different views on the same information, we also enable you to use Nuclino for different use cases. For example, the list view allows you to prioritize lots of items, the board view to track a workflow, and a graph view to explore information.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by kiejo »

sandGorgon wrote: post #27
dham wrote: post #24

Noticed you are using Mobx. Awesome choice! Anyway looks nice so far. The contrast of the site needs some help though.

That's interesting. Normally we hear rhetoric that mobx is unsuitable for complex webapps. What has been your experience vs redux ?

At Nuclino we're very happy with MobX and I would say that it is definitely suitable for complex projects and that it mostly depends on the overall architecture that you choose. MobX is rather unopinionated and there are many ways to work with it. You can even use it in a Redux style architecture if you want! In the end it all depends on your requirements and preferences. For us, choosing MobX was key to building Nuclino the way it is today as there are a few key features which would have been much harder to build with Redux.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by kiejo »

iRobbery wrote: post #33

Consider hosting all web resources and dependencies on your own domain(s). I don't need google, cloudfront etc etc to know i'm using a certain web application. Certainly not if i was paying for it.

Thanks for the feedback! This is the first time that we hear about this concern, but we will look into it. Serving these kinds of resources (fonts, icons) ourselves has a disadvantage in terms of caching, so we'll have to decide if it's worth the trade-off.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by davidjgraph »

crsv wrote: post #37

Sorry for the existential question - but how do you guys not get disenchanted in this space by the idea that if you actually manage to meaningfully differentiate that you're surrounded by nimble giants that can easily mimic your success and crush you?

"nimble" "giants" are not two words I'd associate with (m)any companies... :)

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by bjoernm »

Dryken wrote: post #26

Really smooth user experience and fair pricing. Still I find one negative point that really makes it unusable for me : Content are only one level deep. Unless I missed a feature allowing to nest content on multiple level ?

Thanks Dryken! Inside a workspace there is currently only one level of nesting by using clusters. However, you can use internal links like in a wiki to create index pages that build the structure you need with arbitrarily deep nesting.

Generally, we're trying to keep the organisation flat as we've seen lots of teams struggle with deeply nested information, e.g. in the context of huge shared network drives. However, there are some cases where more nesting might be useful and we're already trying out some ways to address that.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by crsv »

davidjgraph wrote: post #38
crsv wrote: post #37

Sorry for the existential question - but how do you guys not get disenchanted in this space by the idea that if you actually manage to meaningfully differentiate that you're surrounded by nimble giants that can easily mimic your success and crush you?

"nimble" "giants" are not two words I'd associate with (m)any companies... :)

Do you think a Trello/Asana/Slack/MS/Google wouldn't be "nimble" enough to riff on a successful feature? See: Facebook/Instagram -> Snap.
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