Why would I use this, instead of Obsidian (say)?
For once, Obsidian publish is quite expensive.
Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
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Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#22co-founder here: Just a little context on the "why" from the site - > We created lowercase as a side project to make it easier for folks to quickly share content without the pressure of having the perfect blog post. Sometimes you just want to share thoughts without worrying about styling and hosting. Ideas aren't always structured. And sometimes simple and easy is what you need. > A note-taking app that is simple, fu…
> We decided from the very beginning that we'd never collect or share any user data.
Then why not use OAuth?
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#23co-founder here: feel free to ask any questions!
whenever i see a free to use cloud service like this i think either 1:
- they won't be able to afford to run it much longer and it'll shut down with apologies about being a hobby project that got out of hand
or
- they start charging more for it than i'd like to spend once i become reliant on it
don't see any links to any source code... so doesn't seem to be something i can host myself... i typically try to avoid investing in services that i don't have some kind of guarantee with either way (that i'm paying to keep it running, or that i can fork it or host it myself when the hobbyist gets bored)
why should i invest the time in using your product?
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#24some feedback:
as a first time visitor, the pricing page is really confusing. if its free why is there a stripe faq immediately below? i am still confused whether this product is free or paid without signing up. the pricing page requires some rework imo
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#25co-founder here: Just a little context on the "why" from the site - > We created lowercase as a side project to make it easier for folks to quickly share content without the pressure of having the perfect blog post. Sometimes you just want to share thoughts without worrying about styling and hosting. Ideas aren't always structured. And sometimes simple and easy is what you need. > A note-taking app that is simple, fu…
> We decided from the very beginning that we'd never collect or share any user data. Then why not use OAuth?
Wasn't necessary since we weren't intending to share information with another service and felt that the 3rd party requirement could be limiting.
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#26I'm pretty deep into Obsidian-space right now but I'm loving all these newfangled knowledge apps that push things a heck of a lot further than we had previously with bloat like evernote et al.
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#27some feedback: as a first time visitor, the pricing page is really confusing. if its free why is there a stripe faq immediately below? i am still confused whether this product is free or paid without signing up. the pricing page requires some rework imo
https://www.lowercase.app/pricing/ looks pretty clear to me. You can optionally subscribe to support the project, but otherwise it's free.
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#28Why would I use this, instead of Obsidian (say)?
Obsidian Sync costs money to sync your files between devices. Obsidian Publish also costs money on top of that to publish your notes.
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#29"If you want publish them" should probably be "If you want to publish them"
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#30Why would I use this, instead of Obsidian (say)?
For once, Obsidian publish is quite expensive.
Obsidian publishing costs USD 8 per month. A Starbucks latte in SF costs USD 5.88.
I don’t use Obsidian Publish, and I don’t need it. I use the Obsidian app for free, and I don’t need the Sync feature as it works fine with iCloud.
If at some point I need the publish feature, I consider the price that is less than two lattes per month a good deal given the zero cost of the app that I used for a long time.