lostdesign's comments

convenience through a UI?

Thanks and also not. Your blog just pushed my urge to design a font even further.

You can throw it into lambda or vercel for that matter too. Yes you can use sketchy hosts but still can use legit ones too to host for free or very little money.

> , they compromise in every other way. Architecture, performance, testability and so on and so on.

Architecture: The default structure of the app is good to start out and can be changed at any time. You are not locked into that. If you apply your fancy patterns, you can do whatever you want. It's rather a devs fault than the frameworks fault.

Performance: Guess depends on what you compare it to. Surely a rust service will be more performant, however you can scale laravel just fine if you are not writing shit code. There is enough apps built in laravel that handle more load than the average pro reddit coder will ever see.

Testability: Not sure what you mean, you can test in different ways and anything you need to test. It's fairly simply too. Yes, there are sometimes issues where you can run into memory leaks but those can be fixable after some digging.

You can but don't need to use facades, you can go full DI, you can swap the IC.

The Irreducible, unfixable tech debt is created by the developer that wrote it and does not know php or laravel. Yes, laravel makes it easy for newcomers to get right into the traps you mentioned, but then again - we are talking about junior that would not know any better and probably would fail without it.

Laravel has inertia, livewire or alpine to get reactive/snappy frontends if you want to have an SPA. Inertia lets you use your react while not needing to write an api. Livewire drops the js completely and does the SPA-esque frontend with php, alpine is just a smol lib to make parts of the website interactive.

Generally speaking, if you use PHP to build an API, you can use react still as is.

Yeah, but these things exist across languages. Laravel has collection methods that fix that and they can be used in any php project too.

https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/collections#available-methods

Hi, I am the creator of that app - "these" surely are not the new to-do list apps for devs, but everyone got their own requirements.

It's quite cynical/rude to say that these only exists because of being a replacement of hello world/todo apps - which is essentially what I take from your comment.

linked received are few thousand downloads so far, despite me not doing much marketing at all and the app being pretty much still in pre-release (certain features are still missing, such as a search and UX not being where I want it to be).

Seems like there is a need for such tools and I invite you to look at it beyond the surface as this app is not just a note taking app. Not to say I've created something revolutionary, at it's core it's a journal app for day based note taking - a hybrid of a calendar with text editing features.

I'd like to thank OP for sharing the site, even if the website is not really ready to be shown just yet - before the launch I do want to make it better as it's lacking basic information.

Lastly a quick backstory as to why this app exists: Me and my colleagues where looking for a tool at work to write down what we had done throughout a sprint - as everytime in our retro meeting, we had a hard time remembering important things throughout the two weeks of working.

So we started to look for basic note taking apps, all of us tried different solutions for a couple of weeks but nothing really satisfied us. Therefore I sat down on a friday evening to quickly wip up a prototype to be shown on the next monday. My colleagues and I loved it and that was the start of the app 6 months ago. Since then I am putting time into it as much as I can to make it less of a generic note taking app.

I am all ears for critique and feedback as that helps me further progress with the app. If anyone wants to, I'd especially love if someone could help me with the "marketing" based text about linked, since i think the current slogan isn't really that good.

Thanks for your comment ChrisArchitect.

Thanks for your feedback! Yeah that is what I or we in our team do, simply use it for a braindump. Some do use it as a diary.

My goal is and was to keep it minimal and simple at all cost. Soon going to add a "link" feature, where you can link a day in the future or past, simply to have a reference when you open that linked day.

This link in linked linking is a nice meta meme lol.

And well, custom file paths is the next thing to look into as well. Feel free to give me feedback here or on the github discussions over at https://github.com/lostdesign/linked/discussions

Just moved the repo over in my account.

Looks like a nifty app. I‘d rather pay than having to list myself on a newsletter, but I could also just use a throwaway?

Why not opensource it completely?

Hi HN! I guess this is my first post ever?

I wanted to show you my app, which I orignally made for my team at work, to give us a tool which we commonly use for our day to day tasks - mainly since we hate opening jira and looking into each ticket.

This tool helps us ""link"" thoughts to days. It's in an early stage but stable, supports mac/win/linux and I am thinking about adding mobile/web support as well.

What makes it special? It's not the generic note taking app, it's a daily journal which focuses writing things down per day, kinda like a diary. Most importantly it's "my app" or rather, how we as a team wanted it to be.

It soon will have a search, day-rating (useful for scrum/diary) and probably syncing? Need to figure out the last point...

My goal is to keep the app opensource at all time as well as free. If I ever offer sync, you either use dropbox to hook up your devices or the backend-sync-server that may come on your own server/rpi or lastly, a service provided by me (which may not be free however). Sync is also planned to be e2ee, so your data will never be leaked.

I'd love to hear about what you guys think!

ps: yes its electron, please don't blame me - using the tech I got enabled me to write this app in a few days to be ready for all of us.

Here is the WIP landing page once I officially launch it on other sites: https://muc.dev/projects/linked

Thanks in advance <3