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Interesting. We are very much in need of something like this. BUT; I setup both mobile and and desktop web. Seems like they are not syncing. Certainly not real time. Added to desktop and still not on mobile 3 minutes later even if i refresh. I logged into both with my goggle account. Are they even the same board? Deal breaker on the lack of realtime sync.
Is this open source?
I would argue this just means that, in this space, one size does not fit all. There are many productivity features, and everyone has a different set of features they want. If you're using a tool that is missing some features you want, you perceive it as limited. If you're using a tool that has a lot of features you don't care about, you perceive it as overly complex.
Does it have offline support? This is the one thing I'm missing the most about Notion, Miro, Google Calendar, and all of this - offline support. In German trains, I'm offline, on flights, I'm often offline; while traveling, I'm often offline. Offline capabilities are often neglected.
Offline support is costly, and we do not have the resources for it yet. For businesses that have a lot of small customers, offline support is challenging.
I agree, the reason offline support is often not that great is that the customers who are most likely to pay for your product are the least likely to have issues with online connectivity or to care about offline support, OP's edge cases notwithstanding.
I even travel fairly often in the US and it's rare when I'm on a plane that doesn't have wifi.
Heads up, under "What makes Upbase different", #1: No more switching back and forth between a dozens of apps. There's a typo there; you just need to delete the "of" and edit "dozens" to the singular "dozen."
Will you open source it if it unfortunately fails, so users have an escape hatch ?
Does it support Markdown? That's what I find lacking in many of these PM tools - they either use some custom, complicated markup, or wysiwyg, which makes it hard to format text properly and copy and paste text.
I'm a solo founder working on a project management tool which supports markdown. Take a look. :) https://macroapp.io
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It's rare to see offline support in a web app for a few reasons: LocalStorage is easy to use but too limited at 50Mb. WebSQL got deprecated by FireFox because of secuirty issues years ago ( albeit is still somewhat supported in Chrome ). The FileSystem API looked promising, and then google killed it. IndexedDb is the only option, it's slow on writes, therefore requiring major hacks like absurd-sql to be performant. I…
You could just wrap the web app in Capacitor for mobile and Electron for desktop, and easily use a SQLite db for unlimited persistence. If someone is interested in offline support, I don’t think it is a dealbreaker to have to download an app. That’s pretty common (eg Netflix, Spotify, hbo, any of the streaming services. The offline support only works in the app, not the web player).
Users are downloading apps less and less and relying more on web links from apps they already have. So they mostly tend to end up on their browser anyway, and then workflow is disrupted while commuting and going in and out of signal.
Other less important reasons to consider would be in my opinion:
Electron is a bit too heavy on memory for users with 8GB and less of ram albeit it's gotten better lately.
I can't use ublock-origin on chrome or private-relay on safari while using an electron app (in this case however I still benefit from adding a blocklist like https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ipv6zero/ to my /private/etc/hosts file on mac)