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

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i registered for their demo and it seems to be unable to do any of the advertised features. nearly everything crashes; feels like a ux wireframe not yet wired it

That's strange. I use it daily myself and some of my clients do too (to communicate with me). The main tools work reasonably well for us. There are definitely rough edges and bugs still, it's a one-person project.

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

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What is stopping one to have a chrome or other browser window with pinned links to Email, Calendar, Drive and other web links? Why build a full app?. They could released a Chrome extension to let users configure their links for each of those apps. Wasted effort.

Because I wanted everything on my own server, in one database, under my control. A bunch of pinned tabs to different SaaS apps is a completely different thing. But fair enough, if that works for you, you don't need this.

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

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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…

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?

we evaluated them in 2023, because we wanted to move off JIRA, and their name came up, and we did the initial import, and I spent some time trying to understand what's where and how, and the whole experience was lame. it was aggressively confidently pushing its own features (always be upselling!) but the basics were just not there. It's like Microsoft.

We moved to Linear, which is 2 years younger than ClickUp, but it's solid in what it offers.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Are you kidding me? If you link against a GPL library in a proprietary commercial app, the GPL's copyleft infects that code and you'd have to release it under GPL.

Explain to me how that doesn't prevent commercial use? Are you going to say "well technically it doesn't prevent it"? No one cares. Commercial projects avoid GPL like the plague.

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

#46

> 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.

Don’t worry. The license is unenforceable, since the code is written by AI. It’s in the public domain.

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

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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.

That’s all well and good, but you can’t enforce a license on it. Code written by an AI is in the public domain. So the license you’re using is essentially meaningless, and anyone can do anything they want with the code.

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

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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?

ClickUp is known to be extremely slow and buggy, in a way that technical people can infer is a reflection of their mission to literally do everything an organization needs. https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1s0tkz8/disappoint... https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1rxbtla/im_so_tire... Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with…

> Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with extremely tight coupling to satisfy enterprise bargain hunting?

Apparently Lotus Notes did something like that, but I wasn’t around then so I can’t speak to the veracity of that claim.

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

#49
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That’s all well and good, but you can’t enforce a license on it. Code written by an AI is in the public domain. So the license you’re using is essentially meaningless, and anyone can do anything they want with the code.

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

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> 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.

Nice, thanks!
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