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Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by toastercat »

Cenk wrote: post #8
caslon wrote: post #4

I'm going to get ahead of the curve and warn everyone: Yes, Electron web application. Yes, noticeable input delay. Yes, memory consumption is how you might expect it to be. They distribute on Linux with an AppImage, though, which at least isn't a Snap or Flatpak, so there's that, I guess. If you want a non-proprietary Electron application, take a look at Logseq, or Athens (YC some year that I'm too lazy to look up).…

Just curious, do you really notice an input delay? Is there a way of measuring this? Because I tried to compare Supernotes to BBEdit and couldn’t tell the difference

Personally, I use a monitor with a 60hz refresh rate but can still tell the difference between VSCode (an Electron app) and Sublime Text for example. It's very subtle, and I overall I believe VSCode to be usable, but after enough time using a native text editor, Electron-based editors feel sluggish in comparison and it takes me a little while until I'm used to them again.

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by liampmccabe »

renw0rp wrote: post #23
WaltonGoggins wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's £6 per month if you pay yearly. Also if you are a student you can get a 50% discount. Honestly it costs a negligible amount, that's less than a single day's worth of travel on the tube.

I just wanted to say that you could try a bit harder to justify the price rather than just saying it's "negligible". I think that's very subjective and I personally don't think it's a reasonable price to pay for just storing markdown files in the cloud.

"just storing markdown files"

Ironically you could do the same with your replies.

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by jitl »

Congrats on the release!

The HN convo about web-based apps usually turns into (a) “can I self-host or otherwise own my data”, and (b) “web is slow”.

Maybe we can have a more constructive/informative/interesting conversation about how you think about performance!

What are some practices & strategies you use to optimize performance? Do you use any automated benchmarking? How do you catch performance regressions? What kinds of metrics help guide your edit latency & load speed goals?

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by aantix »

boplicity wrote: post #29

This looks great, but I'm getting very sick of software with recurring monthly fees. I get that it's more profitable for companies, and maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, but what happened to software you could actually buy once and then use forever?

It depends on your expectations - do you assume that the software will be maintained indefinitely with security fixes, bug fixes, features, etc?

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by toss1 »

aantix wrote: post #34
boplicity wrote: post #29

This looks great, but I'm getting very sick of software with recurring monthly fees. I get that it's more profitable for companies, and maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, but what happened to software you could actually buy once and then use forever?

It depends on your expectations - do you assume that the software will be maintained indefinitely with security fixes, bug fixes, features, etc?

Considering that Steve Ballmer once pointed out that "revving software is insanely profitable", there is no reason that companies couldn't use the model of selling new revisions every year or so, which the users are free to purchase upgrades or skip. It also provides a better incentive to write better software (so the users don't skip more revs).

The only reason to not do this is that subscriptions are even more profitable, more rent-seeking, and more extractive

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by MetaWhirledPeas »

aantix wrote: post #34
boplicity wrote: post #29

This looks great, but I'm getting very sick of software with recurring monthly fees. I get that it's more profitable for companies, and maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, but what happened to software you could actually buy once and then use forever?

It depends on your expectations - do you assume that the software will be maintained indefinitely with security fixes, bug fixes, features, etc?

I hate fees but you're right. In the past when a developer shipped software they could move on to other things, but these days there's always a new version to ship with some sort of upgrade or patch.

That said, some apps still don't need frequent updates, and those apps should be offered as a traditional purchase.

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