[Raphomet]

I'm a note-taking power nerd who has used all the buzzy apps on Macs. Obsidian is by far the best — it's become my personal journal, my knowledge base, a quick and dirty blog, a place to keep loose notes.

The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) team behind this app is ridiculous. They're constantly pushing updates, and seem to handle all facets of app development with aplomb.

No affiliation, just a happy user!

[lonesword]

>The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) team behind this app is ridiculous

This! I just checked their page for a "careers" button to see if they got VC funding and are raising a team. Nope, still just 2 people. It's not that they are able to move fast, it's that they are moving fast while making a product that looks good, does the job, and is snappy. Kudos to the (2 person) team!

[WJW]

The product velocity is probably because it's only two people, not despite their team size.

[1MachineElf]

It might also be because they're avid users of Obsidian itself.

[manigandham]

Smaller teams move faster. This has always been true.

Scaling up teams is to deal with scope, not speed, and usually leads to much slower progress as processes and procedures are layered on top.

[dombili]

I'll echo this as well. Not only the development pace is ridiculous for such a small team, they're very responsive to support requests via mail and Discord as well.

I had a small problem with the app once. I contacted them via email and it was resolved in a couple of hours and they were kind enough to offer different solutions -- solutions that didn't fill their pockets. (Needless to say, I'm sticking with their services.)

The fact that they can manage all that is almost a testament to how useful the app they're creating must be for them.

I too am just a happy user/customer and wish them nothing but success.

[sylens]

Agreed - and I love how the way that Obsidian stores its files is very transparent. Just a folder on my local drive. I've tried Craft, Notion, Bear, etc. but always had concerns about data portability when I scaled up to thousands of notes and manual exports became impractical.

[polote]

> The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!)

Well in general, isn't the velocity inversely correlated with the number of people in a team?

[mariodiana]

The Mythical Man-Month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

[Aeolun]

Especially if your problem domain is determined by those two people.

[gexla]

And isn't this a side project? They are also the dev team behind Dynalist?

[Philipp0205]

Yes they develop Dynalist as well but as far as I know it is on "hold" and they are focusing on Obsidian atm.

[whimsicalism]

I would love a fusion between the two - an MD backed infinite outliner.

Logseq is the closest thing, but it feels a little clunkier.

[mackrevinack]

me too. obsidian hasn't really clicked with me yet but i love the idea of everything being simple plain text files in a folder.

last time i checked out logseq or any of the other outliners, none of them have a note section underneath each bullet point, which is something i use a ton in dynalist

[adkadskhj]

That actually scares me a bit. I liked Dynalist but stopped using it because of random UI issues on mobile, it just didn't feel worth it.

Hope they do better with Obsidian.

[slipmagic]

Don’t forget their cats!