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Show HN: Uranus – Memo and Task App
- k2enemy 7y agoI love new note taking and TODO apps, but Docker, Tomcat, Java, Postgres, etc for a minimalist web app? Seems overkill.
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- resotto 7y agoThanks for your reply! So you mean you want more functional one, right?
- pointytrees 7y agoI think the feedback was, this looks like a very simple (but possibly useful) app, it should not have such heavy dependencies.
- resotto 7y agoNow I understood! Thanks. Yeah, I agree with him, it’s too heavy. I think my recent app doesn’t have any heavy function, so that he might feel that.
- ravenstine 7y agoWhat's heavy about any of that? I don't know what Tomcat is, but Docker is just a means of installing and running software in a VM(if host isn't Linux), Java is a perfectly fine language and runtime, and Postgres is a powerful and widely-used database. Any other self-hosted web app would require at least a language runtime and a database.
- bschwindHN 7y agoContrast it to something like Rust or Go compiled as a single native binary, using sqlite for storage. It's definitely heavy.
- nurettin 7y agoTomcat is a web server. Possibly thrown in as a word to be more verbose when making a point. To me, size of the image is more important than the number of servers in it.
- resotto 7y agoThanks for your opinion! Actually, I cared about the size of images but I think I could do more efforts on it! Next time, I’ll try to do so!
- nurettin 7y agoI currently use taskwarrior and nextcloud to synchronize task states between computers. This web based solution would help get rid of the synchronization part if it replicated enough of taskwarrior's functionality. What I use most in taskwarrior is creating, starting, stopping and closing tasks under projects, then I use hooks written in python which read the changes from stdin and post the task changes to jira and slack. So if this project could support web hooks, I could write a glue service for it to call when new tasks are created or states are changed.
- ASalazarMX 7y agoHe was actually complaining because your program is not trivial to install, but I love the candidness of your answer.
- resotto 7y agoThanks! Yup, my app is too plain to install. So I need to reconsider what it should be!
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- Shoop 7y agoI love the UI! Maybe this would get into the hands of more people if it were just statically hosted html + js (maybe on gh-pages) that stored your todo items in browser local storage?
- resotto 7y agoThanks for your opinion! Wow, it’s great. I keep your idea into this issue page later!!
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- altotrees 7y agoDespite all the dependencies, I really like the clean, simple UI. Very uncluttered, which for a todo app is super important, in my opinion.
- resotto 7y agoThanks for your opinion! Yeah, I think so too, so that I made Uranus as simple UI memo & task!
- dcraw 7y agoLooks cool. You may like https://workflowy.com/ https://workflowy.com/
- resotto 7y agoThank you! I didn’t know that! My app is similar to that one >< I need to make representatives function which distinguishes this from that!
- rococode 7y agoPersonally a big fan of Vimflowy, an open source self-hostable version of Workflowy with vim-like controls: https://github.com/WuTheFWasThat/vimflowy https://github.com/WuTheFWasThat/vimflowy Dev is super pleasant as well :)
- CraftThatBlock 7y agoCool! Notion (https://notion.so https://notion.so) is also similar, I use it personally and at work and it's an awesome product.
- nitins 7y agoI use Dynalist which is also similar to workflowy.
- spraak 7y agoI love Dynalist and I've been using it for the past 3 (?) years or so, I just wish it had Vim controls.
- mellosouls 7y agoI've used Flashnote for many years, Windows-only but super-lightweight notepad-tree thing. http://softvoile.com/flashnote/ http://softvoile.com/flashnote/ Now somewhat deprecated in my workflow for Colornotes and Trello, but still used regularly.
- jxy 7y ago> In order to use Uranus, please install Docker in advance. Do people forget about the existence of filesystems and that we can literally put texts in a file using your favorite editor?
- djsumdog 7y agoI assume they're starting small but want to expand it out to web interfaces, syncing and maybe even a mobile app. Text files + git do have limitations when you're on a phone or other mobile device.
- resotto 7y agoThank you for your opinion! Um, indeed we can write text on our favorite editor. So I also need to distinguish Uranus from that. And also I should think about making mobile friendly Uranus.
- quickthrower2 7y agoMy next pet projects might be online apps that work purely via saving state to the Dropbox api. So I don’t need to see your data, and you can see your data anywhere via my apps, or if really stuck as plaintext files on the device(s) you’ve synced to. If syncthing via browser is a thing that’d be cool to. Anyone interested in collaborating?
- quickthrower2 7y agoNotepad++ plus either Dropbox or Github (if related to a project) is my go to!
- bigwheeler 7y agoIt took me quite some time to install all the dependencies needed to get into Uranus, but once I was in, it was quite pleasant. Are you planning on spending any time making Uranus mobile friendly?
- kmonad 7y agothis looks a bit like an overweight but under-featured orgmode. but i might be missing something?
- kazinator 7y agoYou forgot my birthday again. Why don't you stick it in Uranus?
- resotto 7y agoYou mean I should implement login function??
- instantwhat 7y agoHe's trying to tell you, in an indirect, humorous way, that the name of your product, when spoken in English and pronounced a certain way, sounds like something other than the name of the planet and mythological god. His comment has been downvoted according to HN's sense of humor, or lack thereof.
- resotto 7y agoThanks for your explaining! I understood now. Honestly, I didn’t have any idea to this project but I like names of planets or gods, so I named this as Uranus!
- huhtenberg 7y agoThis is such a common joke that it has meta-jokes based on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czFnIvKOJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czFnIvKOJY (That's the "urectum" bit from Futurama)
- resotto 7y agoAha! Guys above said just this common joke! OK, thanks for your kindness^^
- trpc 7y ago> In order to use Uranus, please install Docker in advance so looks like I've been using it the wrong way all along
- quickthrower2 7y agoDocking Uranus before deploying is wise. All you need to do then is flush and wipe Uranus to minimise your chance of an infection.
- dtujmer 7y agohaha Uranus
- tobr 7y agoTiny suggestion: GIFs showing someone enter “a”, “b”, and “c” as their tasks tell me that this is more about the system and tech than what it’s like to use it to handle tasks in a real situation. Surely there must be a good example of a real world scenario where moving things around in a hierarchy is useful?
- nprateem 7y agoUranus, seriously? "Don't forget about that important meeting we've got tomorrow" "Boss, shove it in Uranus"
- quickthrower2 7y agoUranus: for anal rententives
- resotto 7y agoThanks! Next time, I’ll name better one LOL
- cheerlessbog 7y agoUR-an-us not ur-ANUS. Although arguably both have potty connotations.
- mellosouls 7y agoYeah, somebody had to mention the elephant in the room. "Show HN Uranus" My first thought was it's getting like Reddit in here...
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago"So, what's our next step here?" "I'm not sure, let me just look at 'your-anus' for a minute." "Um, sure ..."
- nudq 7y agoThose stupid jokes are why we'll have to rename the planet in the future (according to Futurama). It'll be called Urectum. Also a great name for Memo and Task apps.
- resotto 7y agoThanks for your explaining! I determined to do so!
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- klohto 7y agoThank god, I thought HN would bash me for being childish but nice to see I’m not alone...
- researcher7 7y agoTo be honest, it is hard not to joke about the name, but I'll not do that. Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.
- resotto 7y agoThanks for your replying! Yup, I need rename this LOL Thanks!