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by edjrage 2185 days ago
Honestly, it's not that hard to implement something like Roam compared to the aforementioned competitors. The value is in the idea, and even that isn't novel. It really is a mystery to me why an open source alternative doesn't exist / isn't more popular.
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theon144 2185 days ago
>Honestly, it's not that hard to implement something like Roam compared to the aforementioned competitors.

Getting hard "Dropbox is trivial to implement with FTP, curlftpfs and CVS" vibes from this kind of thinking.

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edjrage 2185 days ago
Come on, that's the opposite of my “vibe”. The commenter you refer to didn't believe there was any value in the existence of such a product, while I see so much value in this that it's puzzling to me how we still don't have an open source alternative. I didn't say it's trivial, but I bet it's simpler than that for the likes of Notion (and we do have alternatives to those).
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theon144 2182 days ago
Damn, sorry, honestly misread your comment. Yeah I actually do agree completely.
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