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I'm building https://hyperclast.com/ : Fast, open, and extensible team workspace (Like Notion, but better)
I live in the beautiful Mission District of San Francisco CA.
You can write to me at hn@kirubakaran.com My pgp key is here: https://kirubakaran.com/txt/pgp.txt
~~~ My .emacs: https://github.com/kirubakaran/emacs-kiru/blob/master/dot-emacs.el ~~~
I use Doom Emacs now, so I'm leaving the above link just for fun. I don't use that anymore.
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- Caitlin Kalinowski, previously head of robotics at OpenAI
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ckalinowski_i-resigned-from-o...
A distinction without a difference, as the expression goes
Whenever someone says "actually", it's hard not to think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGvw-E4OtOA
https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai
(Dis: it's mine, but it's free)
You've already done the "building v1" part, and have started to do the "talking about it" part.
Next step is to write up how one could use it, how it is better than the alternatives, and put it up on a website.
I'm happy to chat about it if you like. My email is in my profile.
Once you have real users, they will pull the v2 out of you, and that will be what you'll sell.
What I've written above sounds like a business proposition, but I want to clarify that I'm just offering to share what I know for free :-)
Obsidian and Zed are desktop apps, whereas Hyperclast is web-based. Obsidian isn't multi-player, and not really meant for teams.
> There's a heavy emphasis on performance. Are you sure customers care about that more than real time collaboration and self hosting?
- Good point, I'll find out
> Notion has a feature to export an entire workspace; can you ingest that and get me spun up with your product?
Yes, I'm almost done with this feature
> If I hear something is open source I expect to be able to try it out immediately without logging in. It looks like you can do that but when you hit "Get Started" it puts you into a registration flow.
I link to that elsewhere in the page: https://hyperclast.com/dev/ I'll look into making this more prominent.
> You might take a look at how Zed is marketing themselves
Thanks, will do
> embed the interface in your landing page
Great idea, I'll do that!