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Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by JasonSage » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 10:10 PM UTC

bjoernm wrote: post #28

aleo wrote: post #16

Lovely design and ui, feels somewhat scandinavian. Lots of attention to detail, very smooth experience. I wish it had more contrast though because it makes me squint a little, if I had to use it every day I'd go crazy. Can't edit item titles in place, I have to click item and then edit title in editing area. First cluster (uncategorized items) is not editable, not draggable, not deletable - is this intentional? I gue…

Thanks a lot for your thoughtful review! Here's some feedback: * Great to hear you like the design and UI! Contrast is not easy to get right with all the different screens and layouts, but we'll improve this. * Editing the item title in place is planned. * The current behavior of the uncategorized items is intentional, but as you noted it's not ideal and we're currently working on ways to improve it. * We're already…

I very much agree about the contrast issue. On my Mac it's great but if I plug in a less-than-perfect monitor it's too hard to look at.

Your product has a great look and feel, looks very polished overall!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by gotbeans » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

bjoernm wrote: post #42

ricardobeat wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought there was no pricing available until I came back and saw this comment, would not sign up for "freemium".

I'm sorry to hear that :( Do you prefer free trials, paid-only, or some other model?

How about free? /ducks

Jokes aside, i'm of the opinion I'd allow free use with severe scale limitations - more or less what bitbucket did/does with private repos.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by sethlesky » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 1:11 AM UTC

peternicky wrote: post #59

Really nice work. Are you familiar with Notion? I would love to hear your pitch why I might want to use Nuclino instead of something like Notion.

As a happy Notion user I'd like to hear this as well!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by omeid2 » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 1:51 AM UTC

bjoernm wrote: post #46

type0 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's say a team signs up with your service and after a couple of years requirements change and they want to migrate. What are the formats that one could export the data?

Currently it is possible to export a whole workspace in the Markdown format. The downloaded .zip file contains all exported items including attachments such as images and files in a separate folder. We are also thinking about adding HTML as an export format if there is any interest. What format would you expect as an export option?

Anything that is properly parsable, including relations and references. So HTML with proper semantics and ids would be good!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by rjvs » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 2:34 AM UTC

Like many here, I appreciate the design and feel of the product.

It looks like you're experimenting with a desktop app (although you don't mention which platforms) is there any work on mobile apps? I couldn't find any mention of them on your website.

Although the bulk of our Trello usage is on desktops, being able to access and respond to notifications when away from the desk/office/laptop are deal breakers for our team.

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by Keats » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 4:11 AM UTC

kiejo wrote: post #35

artur_makly wrote: post #34

What was the tech-stack you used to build this?

To give you a rough idea: For the frontend we use React, MobX, ProseMirror, and Webpack. The backend uses Node.js, Express, µWS, and Postgres.

Can I ask a bit more about ProseMirror? I am currently using a custom text editor but was looking into potentially replacing it with editors like ProseMirror, Slate.js

How easy is it to write custom plugins/behaviour? For example our tables are much more complex than the ones from the default plugin, we have e-signature etc.

I will have a look myself over the next weeks or so but wanted to get some opinion on that!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by boyd » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 4:58 AM UTC

Product looks really fantastic, and it was nice to see returns and tabs behaving as expected (feels snappy like a desktop app!).

It's also nice how escape gets you back to the search bar – I don't have enough data to know how search prioritization scales, but feels really snappy and nice so far.

One comment (admit this is a pet peeve) – it'd be really nice if Google and/or Github SSO was available on any of the paid plans. As a buyer, I really don't like having to choose between good security practice (and a bunch of features that aren't needed for my small team) vs. a lower price. Put differently, it's a bummer that across a number of SaaS services the choice to use SSO - but few or no other "enterprise" features - ends up costing tens of dollars per person per month. :/

Edit: Also thank you, thank you, thank you for a nice table editor where I don't have to do things by hand in markdown!

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by ruleabidinguser » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 5:32 AM UTC

bjoernm wrote: post #52

dopeboy wrote: post #48

Wild. If the founders are reading, I met one of your friends (significant others?) in Bali in April. Awesome work and hello from the States.

That is crazy! That must have been my girlfriend, can't wait to tell her. Greetings back from Germany :)

"Omg honey someone on the internet met you!"

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by kiejo » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 5:38 AM UTC

peternicky wrote: post #59

Really nice work. Are you familiar with Notion? I would love to hear your pitch why I might want to use Nuclino instead of something like Notion.

Thanks! There was a similar question with an answer a little further down the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14866580

Hope this helps :)

Re: Show HN: Nuclino – A unified real-time workspace for teams

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Post by kiejo » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 6:03 AM UTC

Keats wrote: post #66

kiejo wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To give you a rough idea: For the frontend we use React, MobX, ProseMirror, and Webpack. The backend uses Node.js, Express, µWS, and Postgres.

Can I ask a bit more about ProseMirror? I am currently using a custom text editor but was looking into potentially replacing it with editors like ProseMirror, Slate.js How easy is it to write custom plugins/behaviour? For example our tables are much more complex than the ones from the default plugin, we have e-signature etc. I will have a look myself over the next weeks or so but wanted to get some opinion on that!

From my experience ProseMirror is not the easiest editor to get started with, but it gives you a lot of power in terms of customization and flexibility. Recently a more feature rich table module was released, which might come closer to what you expect in case you haven't seen it yet: https://github.com/prosemirror/prosemirror-tables. Once you get the hang of it, implementing custom plugins and behaviors is not that hard. There will be a 1.0 release with more extensive documentation soon, which will make it a lot easier to get started. You can find more information here: https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/planning-new-documentation.

Apart from that, the maintainer is very responsive and often times issues get fixed in a matter of hours! And the community behind ProseMirror is very helpful and seems to be steadily growing :)