I would love something like this if it easily supported media such as images, etc.
Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
61–70 of 173 posts
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#62I’m curious how it stacks up with Bear? Is the main advantage not being Apple-locked?
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#63Mind if I ask what software stack is being used here?
- React
- PostgreSQL
- SocketIO
- Redis
- Python/FastAPI
- Nginx
That’s the bones of it – Tobias (Co-founder)
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#64I wish I could use the mobile app before buying to see how it compares to notion. the notion ios app crawls. no doubt i’d be a customer if it’s snappy. i’ve been thinking of building my own alternative for speed.
Tobias here (Co-founder). We will eventually publish the mobile apps on the App Stores, but for testing purposes we've made it subscriber-only as a little thanks for their support. Speed is our foremost priority!
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I 100% agree. It's rather tonedeaf to criticise that commenter for diminishing the cost, and then diminish in exactly the same way the work involved in creating this. And I'm so tired of the game of "describe a successful tech product in a way that makes it sound silly". Yeah, Twitter is just storing a load of VARCHAR(240)s, and Facebook is just an undirected graph, and Jackson Pollock's paintings are just spla…
Storing, updating and deleting varchars is what most of enterprise and startup developers do for living. It can't be that hard.
Sure, in which case you're welcome to build every tool yourself. Me, I'll carry on doing what I specialise in for a living, and use a trivial crumb of my earnings to pay someone else for lovingly-made readymade products. Same way I do for my WiFi router, for my readymade mac & cheese, etc.
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#66This 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?
I don't mind that any one company is charging a monthly fee, what's frustrating is that every company is charging a monthly fee. It's getting very difficult and prohibitively expensive overall to manage all these subscriptions.
In this case, the product looks nice but I'm struggling to justify the cost (as I have for every other note taking app I've tried). I just need a convenient way to get Markdown docs synced across a couple of my devices and so far Joplin (originally synced via Dropbox but now synced via a Nextcloud raspberry pi server I'm running) has gotten the job done.
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#67Based on a quick glance, it looks like this goes right at Notion but with Markdown based editing and rendering. I like that a lot. I want to love Notion, but I try to avoid proprietary formats for notes these days. Markdown is a dream IMO, so this looks like a great option for people that want a Notion-like experience but with a data preservation and export-friendly file format.
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#68Sorry to highjack this thread, but I've been looking for an open-source alternative that can edit .md files, and sync them to a Github repo. I know my IDE can do this - but just wondered if a writing-specific app existed that was also open source?
(if it's relevant: its for private thoughts that I'd like to just keep in a Github repo because its 1. Free and 2. Not going away anytime soon)
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 prof…
That works fine for purely client-side software, such as was common in the 90s. Photoshop would be a great model of that. For such software, the only, or main, cost is R&D, and you pay for their R&D for each new version. It doesn't work so well for software like this, where one of the main selling points is that all your notes are stored in the cloud and can be retrieved on any new device (or by opening the website i…
Even with Photoshop, eventually the product was complete enough that most users felt little need to upgrade even after multiple releases (I’m one such user — PS 7/CS1/CS2 is more than adequate and almost every feature added since is superfluous). They basically ran out of compelling features to add, which pushed them in the direction of subscriptions.
Not that I like subscriptions (quite the opposite) but I think most client only software will eventually hit that saturation point where sales dip and ongoing support becomes questionable.
I think this is more true of indie/small devs than of gigacorps, though. Adobe probably could’ve massages their strategy to make things work with single time purchases, but an indie doesn’t have nearly as much latitude.
Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
#70Sorry to highjack this thread, but I've been looking for an open-source alternative that can edit .md files, and sync them to a Github repo. I know my IDE can do this - but just wondered if a writing-specific app existed that was also open source? (if it's relevant: its for private thoughts that I'd like to just keep in a Github repo because its 1. Free and 2. Not going away anytime soon)
You can use obsidian.md with a plug-in for that.