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Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by szszrk »

samdixon wrote: post #4

Clickup is kinda like this (trash software btw) where it combines all these things. Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI. For example, you will be chatting with someone, need to look at ticket, you have to completely leave the context of the chat to find the ticket. Yeah you can have multiple tabs, but still cumbersome. Would rather have a chat app for chat, documentation in documentation... s…

That's exactly how I feel Teams want's me to use it. It's just... dumb, all those "apps" that are integrated, but in reality it's just another super heavy website that you can't easily jump into/out of.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by prohobo »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #20
nick-sta wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see the issue - the creator is reserving the right to create their own paid hosted version?

That's absolutely fine for them, but they shouldn't call it "Open-source" and "Fully open source" (like they do on the linked page). This software is source-available. Open Source licenses don't discriminate on the basis use of the software. Using the term Open Source for license like this is dishonest. It seeks to profit from the goodwill from actual Open Source software.

Maybe you're right, but FSL/BSL is arguably "more open source" than GPL. We all know GPL is a poison pill that kills commercial use, while FSL/BSL just blocks competitors from stealing your app.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by pscanf »

anilgulecha wrote: post #9

IMO we need more sovereign systems like this (this is too simple IMO). Other sovereign systems are complex to deploy. if good FOSS commodity options come up, then we can expect a hosting/deployment infra and companies to setup and offer it for non self-hosters as well - ala WordPress.

That would simplify things, but in my opinion that is still too high a hurdle. I'm all about privacy and FOSS, but I don't self-host anything (except for my personal website).

I wish that more apps would instead move the logic to the client and use files on file syncing services as databases. Taking tasks as an example, if a task board were just a file, I could share it with you on Dropbox / Drive / whatever we both use, and we wouldn't need a dedicated backend at all.

The approach has limitations (conflict resolution, authorization, and latency are the big ones), but it is feasible and actually completely fine for lots of apps.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by [deleted] »

samdixon wrote: post #7
argee wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on what makes Clickup "trash software", is it something specific to Clickup or your opinion around this entire "class" of all-in-one workspace?

Here are a few things off the top: - horrible optimization - video calls will easily bloat 1-3gb of ram - buggy, things that should work sometimes don't - e.g. sometimes you click to write... you get a spinner, wait 10 seconds - poor ux. I have been using it for 4+ years at work, still have trouble finding things - yeah, all things in one interface These are opinions. People can have different. To me, its just a slow…

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Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by vanviegen »

esquire_900 wrote: post #30

This seems exactly not what you want. If fully invested in this, you never have the freedom to switch tools, ie go to a different team chat solution. The benefits of having these apps in one UI / ecosystem are relatively small: files - teamchat makes sense, but todo-email, kanban-recpies doesn't add any value. Like samdixon mentions with ClickUp, the downside is quite large UX wise: you'd be constantly switching cont…

I actually rather dislike having my info spread over a gazillion services, all of them having their own paid accounts or advertising. Also, a single unified search for all communication and shared notes would be very helpful.

Also, I'm not familiar with ClickUp nor Dobase, but I imagine you can have them open in multiple tabs, allowing for your preferred way of working?

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by Orygin »

prohobo wrote: post #32
EvanAnderson wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's absolutely fine for them, but they shouldn't call it "Open-source" and "Fully open source" (like they do on the linked page). This software is source-available. Open Source licenses don't discriminate on the basis use of the software. Using the term Open Source for license like this is dishonest. It seeks to profit from the goodwill from actual Open Source software.

Maybe you're right, but FSL/BSL is arguably "more open source" than GPL. We all know GPL is a poison pill that kills commercial use, while FSL/BSL just blocks competitors from stealing your app.

That's not even remotely true. GPL does not prevent any commercial use, when others (like BSL or the O'Sassy license here) explicitly prevent commercial use...

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by mrtesthah »

yodon wrote: post #2

Can I drag an email directly onto a Kanban or a Todo list, and prioritize it like a task, and then click on the card or task to go directly to the mail message, in the context of its thread?

That’s the kind of thing Apple’s software explicitly tries to support. There’s a reason this stuff works better with native apps.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by smgdkngt »

yellowapple wrote: post #14

> No licensee or downstream recipient may use the Software (including any modified or derivative versions) to directly compete with the original Licensor by offering it to third parties as a hosted, managed, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product or cloud service where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself. No thanks. These “almost-but-not-quite-FOSS” licenses are a blight.

Fair point, I've actually just switched to MIT as of today. This is a personal project I've been building for myself and I want to share it with anyone who finds it useful.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by smgdkngt »

hperrin wrote: post #3

The commit log is filled with AI generated commits. I wouldn’t trust that on my server.

I use Claude to help me code. I'm a solo developer and this is a side project, AI helps me move faster on things I'd otherwise not get to. The code is all reviewed and tested by me before it ships. I understand the skepticism though.

Re: Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools

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Post by smgdkngt »

yodon wrote: post #2

Can I drag an email directly onto a Kanban or a Todo list, and prioritize it like a task, and then click on the card or task to go directly to the mail message, in the context of its thread?

No, and probably won't be. Each tool is intentionally standalone. You can link to things manually but there's no cross-tool wiring. I'd rather keep the codebase simple and each tool easy to understand on its own.
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