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

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Post by newlog »

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.

The truth is that I also felt tricked by this approach. I thought that the service was free until I gave you my email. Not nice, guys. Even being tricked this way, I'm still considering the idea to pay, but $9 might be too much for the use I'd give the product. Not sure...

On the other hand, I'd really encourage you to implement the export data feature. I do not commit to any cloud service if I cannot get my data back if the business closes (unlikely with big companies, more likely with startups :).

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

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Post by r3bl »

Okay, I watched the promo video, read the homepage, took a quick look at the Terms of Service, and I still have a bunch of questions. Biggest ones:

* Is it open source? (My assumption by skimming through the ToS is no, but I still haven't found a definitive answer.)

* Does it work on Linux? Or is it web-based maybe? How about Android?

* Is it going to be free? If not, what's the price of it?

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

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Post by newman314 »

chevas wrote: post #2

We're bootstrapped. The primary reason I started Consol was because I wanted to use it. One day at work I finally had it with existing tools and I started designing what had been in my head for a long time. Soon after I recruited my brothers. Many of you will immediately notice some missing features, such as the ability to import/export data. Take a look at our first blog post for some insight on what's missing and w…

Why Consol over say something like Quip?

The caveats surrounding E2E capabilities as listed fweespeech are concerning. Security should be enabled out the box if that's a key selling point.

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

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Post by chevas »

r3bl wrote: post #42

Okay, I watched the promo video, read the homepage, took a quick look at the Terms of Service, and I still have a bunch of questions. Biggest ones: * Is it open source? (My assumption by skimming through the ToS is no, but I still haven't found a definitive answer.) * Does it work on Linux? Or is it web-based maybe? How about Android? * Is it going to be free? If not, what's the price of it?

1. Not open source today 2. It's web based only right now (native apps for later) 3. It's $9/mo base (+$7 to add End-to-end encryption)

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

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Post by ponytech »

deftnerd wrote: post #39

Kind of frustrating that there was no mention of the pricing until AFTER users enter all their information to request an "invite". And since I'm not making an account now, I can't delete my submitted information. Should I expect newsletters or spam now?

Same feeling here. Plus you can't try the product without giving your credit card number. Sorry, I pass.

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

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

deftnerd wrote: post #39

Kind of frustrating that there was no mention of the pricing until AFTER users enter all their information to request an "invite". And since I'm not making an account now, I can't delete my submitted information. Should I expect newsletters or spam now?

Yes, you will, unfortunately.

And I hate companies that take this insane approach.

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

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Post by Gmo »

I know you say Desktop first (and I like that idea), but do you still plan to do mobile apps in the future ?

I think I could definitely be a user of this app as I am searching for a similar solution.

Also, you say in your video you can save code, does it include syntax highlighting ?

Can you have a shared "library" of stuff with other people ?

Edit: Can you pay for instance 1 year in advance and not leave your CC details on the server ?

I always prefer to renew manually than leaving ma credit card details all over the place.

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

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Post by chevas »

aaronbasssett wrote: post #32
dbcurtis wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 ser…

My reading of it is that it probably has an autosave feature so if I begin typing "This is my super secret password: hunter2" and then click encrypt it may have already sent the content over the wire before I hit the encrypt button. But that is just my reading of it, maybe the dev can correct me.

Yes, that will happen. Click "Crypto" first, then if you type content in the item, it will be encrypted from the get-go. We're working on changing this so you don't have to manually enable "Crypto" first.

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

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Post by Gmo »

Gmo wrote: post #47

I know you say Desktop first (and I like that idea), but do you still plan to do mobile apps in the future ? I think I could definitely be a user of this app as I am searching for a similar solution. Also, you say in your video you can save code, does it include syntax highlighting ? Can you have a shared "library" of stuff with other people ? Edit: Can you pay for instance 1 year in advance and not leave your CC det…

Answering myself, I see that quite a lot of the answers are available in this blog post :)

Please, keep updating it like you already did to track what you released !

https://www.consol.io/top-10-missing-features-you-need-in-co...

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

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Post by chevas »

Gmo wrote: post #47

I know you say Desktop first (and I like that idea), but do you still plan to do mobile apps in the future ? I think I could definitely be a user of this app as I am searching for a similar solution. Also, you say in your video you can save code, does it include syntax highlighting ? Can you have a shared "library" of stuff with other people ? Edit: Can you pay for instance 1 year in advance and not leave your CC det…

1. Yes on mobile apps, check out our first blog post: https://www.consol.io/top-10-missing-features-you-need-in-co...

2. The code does include Syntax highlighting

3. A Shared "Library" is something we are actively working on delpoying. It's very very high on our roadmap.

4. Stripe handles the CC, so we don't store it. That may not answer your question, but I know that's true. We are also working on longer subscription pricing. Expect that very soon.

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