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Show HN: Consol – Desktop First Productivity with End-to-End Encryption

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Re: Show HN: Consol – Desktop First Productivity with End-to-End Encryption

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Post by cheez »

I think you've made a mistake in how you're marketing this. Who is your target customer? Someone who already uses a smorgasbord of tools? I suspect that they're going to find something to complain about every single feature of yours. "I like the way A does B. You should do that too otherwise I can't use it". You're setting yourself up for a huge support pain as well as possibly demoralizing complaints.

So what are your killer features?

  0. All this stuff
  1. E2E encryption
  2. Cloud sync (presumably I could just store the DB on Dropbox)
  3. Ad-hoc organization via hashtags
You're going to have to market yourself as a project management system like all the other project management systems.

Re: Show HN: Consol – Desktop First Productivity with End-to-End Encryption

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Post by jjbohn »

chevas wrote: post #20
drcongo wrote: post #18

I like the look of this, and have attempted to sign up to the beta. However, I get this cryptic message about my (valid) credit card: "You must supply either a card, customer, pii data, or bank account to create a token."

Really sorry to hear this. Standby, I'm looking into it.

I just got the same

Re: Show HN: Consol – Desktop First Productivity with End-to-End Encryption

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Post by chevas »

drcongo wrote: post #18

I like the look of this, and have attempted to sign up to the beta. However, I get this cryptic message about my (valid) credit card: "You must supply either a card, customer, pii data, or bank account to create a token."

I broke something when I made an update to that page. I just tested it and it should be fixed. Thanks for your patience. Please try now.

Re: Show HN: Consol – Desktop First Productivity with End-to-End Encryption

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Post by zyxley »

chevas wrote: post #8
cwilson wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm definitely intrigued. We've used everything under the sun and always end up falling back to Asana (we're a small design agency). Looking forward to trying this out! Edit: You guys might want to be a bit more clear that you're requiring a credit card to signup for beta access, even if you're not charging for 30 days.

Thanks for your feedback. The current flow allows me to see who's interested in the product, but may not be interested in paying. If the price was front and center from the get-go, I wouldn't have ever known of numerous users who showed interest.

> If the price was front and center from the get-go, I wouldn't have ever known of numerous users who showed interest.

On the other hand, hiding the price also drives away people (like me) who feel tricked by that practice.

Re: Show HN: Consol – Desktop First Productivity with End-to-End Encryption

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Post by dbcurtis »

fweespeech wrote: post #7

https://www.consol.io/encryption/ > At this time, Consol supports encryption only of certain content types, viz. notes, code blocks, and images, for users who have subscribed to the E2EE component. The other content types available in Consol are not yet encryptable. > Notably, Consol E2EE does not yet support encryption of the titles of any content types. For example, if you create a Consol note and encrypt it, the t…

> You acknowledge that if you encrypt an item after you create and add content to it, there may be a period of time in which your item’s body content is not encrypted while being stored in our database

So.... the data goes across the wire in clear-text, and is encrypted later? Ummm, sorry, no.

First off, I'm not interested in anything that stores data that I might want to encrypt "in the cloud". It goes on my own server. Full. Stop. And sending data across the wire in the clear and encrypting later? ? I mean.... ???

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