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I like the landing page. The screenshots and videos make it quite clear what to expect. The pricing looks good and there's even a free tier. I am writing a similar (open-source) tool [1] and always looking for inspirations ;)

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/

Agree that it's a nice landing page. They mention importing data - so where is the privacy policy, export ability, delete my data if I want. This sounds like what I want but I'd like to pay you for the right to run my own stack for privacy. I just have no interest in exposing my entire life to another Corp. I grudgingly do it with Google but I'm trying to get away.

Thank you for your feedback! You can delete all your data at any moment. Unfortunately, for now, there is no export option. Could you please also specify your concerns in a more detailed way so we could address them in a full way? We highly appreciate your privacy and we would love to know the needs of the users.

Many of my concerns are addressed at https://boardist.io/privacy

Edit: except export ;). Consider if you closed, your customers put effort into organizing with you.

https://dashboard.darekkay.com/ - neat. I like it. Smooth movements of elements, I just love it.

Thanks! :)

> The pricing looks good

$48/year for 3 boards? Maybe to typical HN readers, but if your selling point is "all the data you need", I can't think of any reason someone would pay $48 a year.

This looks really cool! However, as an Evernote and Notion customer (yes, I use and pay for both), I would love to know what would make me switch tools, or add this to my subscriptions?

Thanks for your question! I completely agree with you, Notion is an amazing and powerful tool.

The key difference is the way how data is structured. I think it's easier to navigate and use the data on a board than within a document. However, as a drawback, the amount of information on the board is more limited than in the document for comfortable usage. That's why I believe Boardist won't work well enough for huge volumes of data and big teams.

We are also more focused on personal needs. For example, we already have an extension for bookmarks. Our next steps will include providing content scrappers and more productivity tools.

My goal is to provide the best experience with data organization. Don't hesitate to try Boardist and hope you will enjoy using it. Your feedback is highly appreciated.

right... I primarily use Notion and I'm trying to wrap my head around what value the "Board" paradigm has over Notes and Blocks

Same, Notion feels like a more powerful generalist tool for this case with the power of tables and collaboration.

Or Trello, which is free (as are the many Trello clones).

Sorry, it's my bad that people start comparing my service with Trello. In a nutshell, we are more about data organization and Kanban is a small feature that is baked in.

Seems very interesting but closed the tab after seeing google login

Out of curiosity I Would love to know the techstack behind this

My naive assumption would be React + Material UI for the frontend based on what they're using on the landing page and how the components looks in the screenshots. Could be wrong, though.

I didn’t expect that login with Google will confuse people so much as it’s just a popular auth provider. However, thank you for the note, I will take it into account for the future.

Unfortunately, Firefox has issues with WebAuthFlow and I wasn’t able to deliver extension on this stage. Definitely, Firefox extension is a Must and I will work on a workaround to deliver it later on. I hope for your understanding.

Confuse is not the verb you are looking for. Repel is. You should have expected it would repel some people. Then, if it is an issue or not, that, is up to you to decide.

It’s a shame because it looks very interesting. But I’m not going to use chrome nor any of google services if I can avoid it.

We have a local auth now https://boardist.io It will be great to have you onBoard

Is this "personal" workspace hosted on someone else's computer?

I truly understand your concerns but for now Boardist can only provide the cloud solution. One of the future improvements will include the encrypted widgets.

The landing page looks sleek, but what can it do that Trello cannot?

We are more about data organization and management while Trello is more about list-making

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