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

Post by xanaxagoras » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 7:23 PM UTC

reitanqild wrote: post #140

xanaxagoras wrote: post #129

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I gave him an upvote to balance your vote out. Luckily we vote on these products with our money. It is absolutely insane to me that you would even suggest that a repository for my most private thoughts "obviously" doesn't need to be private for my eyes only.

Totally fine. Note however that this isn't marketed as a place for anyones most private thoughts, it is right there in the announcement: > unique collaboration system that is optimized for granular sharing between individuals rather than "all-in" sharing amongst teams or specific groups Such applications has their place and for what you know I might be using them myself, but don't for a second believe that any web ap…

Post by cloverich » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 7:47 PM UTC

doteka wrote: post #87

Not to take a dump on this product in particular but at this point I feel like there are more note-taking apps out there than people willing to pay for a note taking app. Why does everybody and their dog think that competing with the thing that comes with all my devices for free (Apple Notes, Google Keep) is a great business opportunity? I can’t seem to wrap my mind around this.

Post by Void_ » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:20 PM UTC

theodorejb wrote: post #78

From the features page: > On Supernotes your data is always encrypted in transit (forced SSL) and encrypted at rest (AES-256). Our team will never read or access your note content, unless we have received your express permission during a customer support interaction. Sorry, but the fact that you can read it makes this a no-go for me. Unless a note-taking solution offers end-to-end encryption, I don't consider it a sa…

Post by toss1 » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 8:57 PM UTC

samhw wrote: post #43

toss1 wrote: post #38

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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…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 9:51 PM UTC

theodorejb wrote: post #78

From the features page: > On Supernotes your data is always encrypted in transit (forced SSL) and encrypted at rest (AES-256). Our team will never read or access your note content, unless we have received your express permission during a customer support interaction. Sorry, but the fact that you can read it makes this a no-go for me. Unless a note-taking solution offers end-to-end encryption, I don't consider it a sa…