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Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Post by polote »

reilly3000 wrote: post #78
henning wrote: post #76

The most amazing thing about this is that a note-taking app got funded in 2021.

I’d call it a note-structuring app and if you’re amazed at this you’d be shocked to know that Roam Research raised $9M in a seed round with a $200M valuation last year. People spend billions each year on note-taking systems from Evernote to Confluence. YC would be foolish not to spend $125k to be in this space.

And notion 200m at 10bn valuation

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Post by vladsanchez »

kevinslin wrote: post #17
TruthWillHurt wrote: post #8

Yey another note taking app! And YC no less! Not at all like previous YC-backed note taking app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565629 Or any note taking app ever.. Seriously, is that the biggest thing bothering developers? Is this what you got into computing for? The best use for your AWS experience? The digital equivalent of making an ashtray in pottery class.

Yeah, note taking apps are like mushrooms these days and it sometimes feels like everyone is doing it. I think the reason you're seeing all the development here is because how *humans* manage *knowledge at scale* is fundamentally an unsolved problem (this is why people keep building new tools). My friends give me grief about doing cloud computing for over half a decade to work on a local-first note-taking app. There…

I love Kevin's humbleness. I not only became a Dendron user/evangelist but I mostly loved the fact it is driven by such a smart-yet-humble person like Kevin Lin. Thank you and congrats on your YC backing!! <3

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Post by kevinslin »

vladsanchez wrote: post #84
kevinslin wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, note taking apps are like mushrooms these days and it sometimes feels like everyone is doing it. I think the reason you're seeing all the development here is because how *humans* manage *knowledge at scale* is fundamentally an unsolved problem (this is why people keep building new tools). My friends give me grief about doing cloud computing for over half a decade to work on a local-first note-taking app. There…

I love Kevin's humbleness. I not only became a Dendron user/evangelist but I mostly loved the fact it is driven by such a smart-yet-humble person like Kevin Lin. Thank you and congrats on your YC backing!! <3

thanks for the kind words :)

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Post by Terretta »

kevinslin wrote: post #71
Terretta wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i know why it's not this way, and love what you've built, but find it vaguely dissatisfying that with the structured and hierarchical organization, the URLs don't convey that affordance also decent weight still goes to URL keywords in SERPs (and yes, many to many links to leaves attached more than one place seems a problem, but that's what canonical URLs are for)

we actually have a solution in the works - adding a human friendly URL label followed by the guid (eg. wiki.dendron.so/notes/tutorial-{guid}) server side, we only parse the last component of the url which will be the guid. the reason we don't do this now is because we're focused on making static publishing smooth (most people use github pages to host their dendron sites) before we start on work on the server enhanced…

Great, the amazon.com product URL approach works for a pretty big many-to-many hierarchy!

e.g.

- https://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Classic-Cover-Notebook-Rule...

- https://www.amazon.com/dp/8883701127

Re: Launch HN: Dendron (YC W21) – Structured note-taking for developers and teams

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Post by 1123581321 »

Hi, this looks like a very complete idea. Good stuff. I don't use VSCode, which probably sounds like a passive criticism on HN, but it's really not! However, I am curious if you've plans to expand to integrations with other IDEs. Or, would you would like non-VSCode users to start using VSCode just for Dendron, similarly to how they would open Obsidian to work with their Obsidian notes.
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