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Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by louis-lau »

yangcheng wrote: post #198

it's nice that everything is integrated into one system! I have always been searching for similar solutions. But one thing that bothers me email. If I use an email provider from Google workspace or Microsoft365, then sooner or later I was forced to use their calendar, and soon docs because the preview and integration. The closest I found is larksuite[0] which they recently added email hosting. But I am still paying m…

Contacts and calendar are nice to have in the same place as email, because of needing to email contacts and because of calendar invites. Then again, if you use an email client you can use a mix of providers even for those features.

I'm not sure I see the need for any other additional apps next to email. Let alone the feeling of being forced to.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by harrisonlo »

crazygringo wrote: post #65

First of all, I want to congratulate you on what seems to be a massive (solo?) technical achievement. I can't even imagine the amount of work that must have gone into building all of this and making it function. There's clearly a huge amount of engineering talent behind this, so a million kudos to you on that! That being said, since you're asking for feedback -- if you're trying to turn this into a business, there ar…

Thanks for writing this out, I appreciate the super-long feedback.

1. Nino competes with a better foundation and architecture. It is true MSFT and GOOGL have more engineers, but I'd say startups don't compete with thousands of them, just a dozen or fewer actually working on the product. Btw, pivot tables are supported, check out the "Widgets" button at top right corner.

2. You have good points here. The communication on the use cases can definitely be improved. As you and others have pointed out, Nino's landing page does feel like a documentation page for other devs right now...

3. It is solo and I view it as a life's work in progress. It is precisely because I want it to stay for the long term that I've resisted seeking any VC for now, to not dilute and lose too much control in the beginning.

Thanks for the recommendation on the possible directions going forward, I'll think about them!

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by eviks »

bertil wrote: post #93
not_your_mentat wrote: post #74

This looks really neat! I'd be interested in giving it a try, but doing so would replace existing tools and workflow. As a user, I'm unwilling to do this is I can't both own my data and application hosting. If Nino doesn't pan out and the product gets shut down, how do I continue to access my now (trigger warning, words used to describe as I understand, not critique) tightly coupled proprietary data? Can I self host?…

One great solution for that would be the approach many advanced Markdown editors like Obsidian have: the documents remain usable. You might lose some benefits (the integration between documents in a graph-like structure) that are specific to the tool. Still, your work is preserved in a universal format that anyone can leverage. Most elements of Nano have widely accepted standards, presumably easy to integrate, so tha…

It's not a universal format since a lot of data is for only for Obsidian plugins that can work work it, and it isn't universally extensible, so not suitable for proper tools this aims to be

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by harrisonlo »

iamcasen wrote: post #88

Very impressive from a technical perspective. I should know, since I worked on a startup for 3 years who attempted to productize a similar system. If this can scale, I think you have a very valuable foundation. Did you build Nino Meets using AWS Chime? I'm curious. Now for the feedback: Because the use cases are so broad and all-encompassing, marketing and onboarding into your system will be a huge challenge. Do not…

Nino Meet is built on LiveKit, shout out to them!

Thanks for the actionable feedback regarding marketing and onboarding. You're spot on that the home page is being like docs for other engineers, I didn't even realize I was doing that.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by nawfalak »

I've been messing with this for a bit and as a single person, I find this a lot more intuitive than something as complex as Notion and something made for a large business like monday.com and Asana. Only issue I have is Flutter. As much as I love it being cross platform everywhere, on the iPad app, I have a lot of touch sensitivity issues. I have to double click a lot of buttons for them to react and a lot of the feel of the app in general is somewhat unpolished and finnicky.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by psnehanshu »

Nice app. May I suggest one change? Instead of sending a link to verify the email to create workspace, consider sending an OTP. This way, you don't need to manage the headache of opening the app post verification as you can accept the OTP on the same screen that accepted the email. In my case, after verification, the app is just a white screen.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by harrisonlo »

nawfalak wrote: post #205

I've been messing with this for a bit and as a single person, I find this a lot more intuitive than something as complex as Notion and something made for a large business like monday.com and Asana. Only issue I have is Flutter. As much as I love it being cross platform everywhere, on the iPad app, I have a lot of touch sensitivity issues. I have to double click a lot of buttons for them to react and a lot of the feel…

The double tap thing is a known issue on iOS. It's in the backlog and will be addressed at one point. Thanks for trying it out.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by 2143 »

This seems technically impressive, and I wish you good luck.

I personally prefer apps that do one thing well. I don't like "super" apps that does everything. I like separate tools, and not a Swiss army knife.

This is kind of why I detest apps like WeChat; even before taking into account the privacy considerations, from a user perspective it does chat, social media, payments etc, and I dislike it for that reason. WhatsApp too seems to be headed in that direction (atleast where I'm from).

And I also prefer tools that allow seamless data exchange with other tools. Sort of like the Unix philosophy.

> This means we won't do integrations with other services, unless they are under the hood

Not sure how I feel about that.

> your team can eventually conduct all work on Nino

Great! Another walled garden.

I hope this doesn't happen, but what if you go bust? Will the user lose all their data? Or what if, for whatever reason a team decides to move off your platform? Is there data export capabilities? You better have export capabilities if you want commercial entities to even consider your product.

Also, I feel the Free tier has slightly more features than your Pro tier (the former has unlimited members, for example).

Nevertheless, I wish you good luck.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by harrisonlo »

silentsanctuary wrote: post #182

Really liking it so far! An offline-first platform that lets you store your information in a central way and provides multiple forms of use and access is exactly what I've been trying to find, without much success until now. I'm not sure I've understood how to fully realise the promises of it though. I created a board, and added some records to it, alongside fields for additional data. It's not obvious to me how to u…

You raised an issue that I plan to fix soon. Currently certain fields (i.e. time range) only show on specific modules (i.e. calendar) but I'm planning to allow them everywhere.

Could you share your use case on embedding a single record? I disabled that for now because I imagined people would usually embed all records together in a certain view.

Hm I'll think about searching for blocks in autocomplete, or perhaps some way to use advanced search inline.

Your experience in offline mode was actually expected. I assume you never opened the other pages on your phone, so they weren't saved on your device. Nino's not syncing all pages all the time, but only the ones you open, for performance reasons. Do you think having some sort of mechanism to pre-sync certain pages is necessary?

Re: Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

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Post by harrisonlo »

airstrike wrote: post #7

This is really cool -- congrats on the launch! The productivity worker's "app chaos problem" as you called it is a real problem and a solvable one. I'm building something similar after spending 10+ years working with those numerous different apps day in and day out in quote-unquote "high stakes" white-collar roles. It's early days and I'm approaching it from a slightly different angle, but there's a certain amount of…

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