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I’m building Docmost, a self-hosted alternative to Notion and Confluence.

It’s open-source, easy to self-host and feature-packed.

GitHub: https://github.com/docmost/docmost.

I'm not sure DocMost is a Notion alternative, it's just a note-taking tool without many of the features that give Notion its unique position.

I'm always disappointed by note-taking tools calling themselves a Notion alternative when they do not provide an alternative to Notion and are instead just another note-taking tool with a simple UI.

If you want to be a Notion alternative provide the things that make Notion great, e.g. the database functionality. It's okay to be a simple colaborative notes tool, but that is not a Notion alternative.

Perhaps try it first before dismissing it as just a “note-taking tool,” which it isn’t.

We have support for team-spaces, permissions, diagrams, real-time collaboration, comments, page verification workflows, AI, SSO/LDAP, search, audit logs, API, public sharing, and a lot more.

Btw, we have plans to introduce a database-like feature.

Confluence and Notion are not equivalent products. Docmost looks to be similar to Confluence - a full fat wiki, but the whole point of Notion was its database-like features.

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