Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

Post by bayindirh » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 6:55 PM UTC

virdev wrote: post #246

bayindirh wrote: post #32

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No, it doesn't. First, you create the tools you need with the money your people give you. Then, you give back the tools you created to the public and/or everyone who needs them. You keep your data in your own data center, use the tools which squarely fills the needs of your workers and people, and you share its maintenance with the outside users. It's a win-win-win (country, its workers, people in the world). WWW is…

> We shouldn't be afraid of governments doing cool things Yes! And you'd be surprised by the kind of talent we're able to attract. People want cool stuff to be built by the public. After all its also their money that's being spent. But you need to provide the right environment for their talent not to go waste and thats not easy.

Post by theflash666 » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

bcye wrote: post #270

manuhabitela wrote: post #192

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All the projects are already open sourced actually, but admittedly all don't have documentation as good as docs or meet. Still a wip :)

Cool! Are they under a different GitHub org? I couldn't find grist or tchap

Post by crazygringo » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 7:04 PM UTC

lioeters wrote: post #268

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"Docs" isn't that generic. It's not even a word in the dictionary. It's the plural of an abbreviation. Nobody called a word processor "Docs" before Google did. If you say "open Calendar", I don't know if you mean Apple or Google or Microsoft. If you say "open Docs", I know it's Google and only Google. This is no different than if the project called itself "Word", which would be equally confusing with Microsoft. Neith…

Docs and Word are both generic words that need a qualification like Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Otherwise they could be Open Docs or Open Word (not sure if that exists, maybe Libre Word?). Same with Books. It could be Google Books, Facebook, or Open Books.

Post by theflash666 » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 7:10 PM UTC

jahewson wrote: post #204

fastasucan wrote: post #194

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Why is it better that 5 private companies make the same product and compete against each other in marketing? Why should the government buy a product from them, and spend lots of money to tailor it to their needs, without even owning the finished product?

Where do governments get their money from? Taxes on economic activity. The more economic activity the government performs itself, the less opportunity there is to raise tax revenue. Take this through to its logical conclusion and you have the government owning farms, making food, making its own steel, building its own cars, etc. with a corresponding loss of revenue-raising activity in the real economy.

Post by dymk » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 7:14 PM UTC

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Honestly it's a reasonable set of dependencies: * Postgres for permanent storage * an OIDC identity provider so you don't have to make your own password system * Redis for caching * S3-compatible object storage (so you don't have to reinvent file uploads) * The app itself What would you rather them do? Waste time reinventing the wheel for no reason? If you have the IDP and object storage setup already figured out you…

That's a typical tech answer. Do you really want to spin up 10 images for note taking for yourself? From a product standpoint that's not sensible and wastes way to much resources.