[tangjeff0]

Hey! Founder of Athens here, we just launched on HN 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316793

Agree with your comment. What we've found is that most people don't actually want to self-host, even technical users who can. But they all want the optionality to self-host, which you don't have with most SaaS's like Notion or Roam. This is doubley important for "second brains", apps where you brain dump your closest thoughts.

As Balaji has said, given the choice, "you'd always pick open source over a comparable proprietary equivalent."

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1365212646945923074