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Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by mynegation »

yumraj wrote: post #19

I wonder why the Mac OS desktop app requires 10.15? I'm assuming it's just an electron app.

Not sure about version requirement but you can find that Mac app is written in Swift: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/mac and Windows application in C# uses WPF: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/win-wpf

Linux app seems to be just a local server supposedly with web browser as an interface.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by selcuka »

Brendinooo wrote: post #11

Nice. I was using Wekan for awhile until I ignored Heroku telling me that they were getting rid of the free MongoDB service, then I lost all of my data. Maybe I'll have to try this instead.

Can't you use MongoDB Atlas free tier?

https://www.mongodb.com/pricing

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by mraza007 »

I’m just surprised few weeks ago i was looking at self hosted notion/trello like alternatives and now I just came across this.

The project just looks really cool and I’m definitely going to download and try this.

I just wanted to thank the developers from the bottom of my heart for creating this.

Lastly I’m just curious is it possible to host this on a raspberry pi

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by yumraj »

mynegation wrote: post #21
yumraj wrote: post #19

I wonder why the Mac OS desktop app requires 10.15? I'm assuming it's just an electron app.

Not sure about version requirement but you can find that Mac app is written in Swift: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/mac and Windows application in C# uses WPF: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/win-wpf Linux app seems to be just a local server supposedly with web browser as an interface.

Yes, github repo also mentions Catalina (10.15) and XCode 12+.

So, Swift would explain that..

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by paxys »

pbreit wrote: post #18
AnonHP wrote: post #4

It would’ve been more convenient to me if this project provided standalone downloads for macOS and Windows. The current downloads for the Desktop version are only available through the respective app stores on these two platforms.

Downloading from app store is about as easy as it gets.

I take it you have never tried using the Windows Store.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by yblu »

mynegation wrote: post #21
yumraj wrote: post #19

I wonder why the Mac OS desktop app requires 10.15? I'm assuming it's just an electron app.

Not sure about version requirement but you can find that Mac app is written in Swift: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/mac and Windows application in C# uses WPF: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/win-wpf Linux app seems to be just a local server supposedly with web browser as an interface.

Both these apps contain a few source files and all they do seem to be rendering and handling a webview. The "real" app seems to be this: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/webapp.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by orliesaurus »

I love Notion but the speed, or rather lack of, is killing me daily. Last Friday I was taking some notes, and suddenly the page refreshed and everything was gone. Went on twitter to see, I wasn't alone .. i feel like hosting my own notion clone is the way to go forward to use Notion...

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by aidenn0 »

mraza007 wrote: post #23

I’m just surprised few weeks ago i was looking at self hosted notion/trello like alternatives and now I just came across this. The project just looks really cool and I’m definitely going to download and try this. I just wanted to thank the developers from the bottom of my heart for creating this. Lastly I’m just curious is it possible to host this on a raspberry pi

Looks like this needs Go, Webpack and an SQL server (with sqlite3 being the out-of-the-box default). That all should run on the RPI.
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