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This is an incredible amount of work for personal tools! Do you ever miss features from traditional note apps, CRM, and web page builders? Does tool maintenance

This is an incredible amount of work for personal tools! Do you ever miss features from traditional note apps, CRM, and web page builders? Does tool maintenance get in the way of your work? I do agree with your argument about building tools to fit your workflows. Low code and no code tools will bring down the cost of custom tools dramatically. Companies don't update their tools enough because people hate changing their workflows. I've worked with customer support teams and change in workflows is a big reason why they don't want to buy a 'better' SAAS tool. They'll lose productivity in short-term with a new product that's different. (shameless plug-I started an open source project to let companies build their own self-hosted tools and workflows. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith)

thesephist 6y ago
>Do you ever miss features from traditional note apps, CRM, and web page builders? Very rarely, and if I do I build them in. But my needs are pretty low -- I'm ok with plain markdown/text for storing most data, or nicely formatted tables. I've found that super-rich document formats with embedded this-and-that don't actually add a lot of value for me (but of course this might be Stockholm syndrome speaking, I suppose). >Does tool maintenance get in the way of your work? No, and this is a big consideration for anything I build. I try to design / deploy apps so they require minimum maintenance. Static Go binaries + going slim on frontend dependencies both help with this. The only real "maintenance" I have to do is periodically reboot my Linux box and upgrade the Ubuntu version to the next LTS every few years. All my binaries are deployed as auto-restarting systemd services on an small VPS -- not depending on more serverless-style platforms helps keep maintenance needs low too, I find (though there are disadvantages, it doesn't really apply for one dude running a dozen web apps on a single server).
- bostonvaulter2 6y ago
  Does your note taking app support embedded files and images in-line?
lukeramsden 6y ago
Is Appsmith essentially a FOSS Retool? If so that's awesome and I may use that at some point
- arey_abhishek 6y ago
  Yes! It's a FOSS replacement for Retool, Powerapps, and other such low code products.

thesephist 6y ago

>Do you ever miss features from traditional note apps, CRM, and web page builders? Very rarely, and if I do I build them in. But my needs are pretty low -- I'm ok with plain markdown/text for storing most data, or nicely formatted tables. I've found that super-rich document formats with embedded this-and-that don't actually add a lot of value for me (but of course this might be Stockholm syndrome speaking, I suppose). >Does tool maintenance get in the way of your work? No, and this is a big consideration for anything I build. I try to design / deploy apps so they require minimum maintenance. Static Go binaries + going slim on frontend dependencies both help with this. The only real "maintenance" I have to do is periodically reboot my Linux box and upgrade the Ubuntu version to the next LTS every few years. All my binaries are deployed as auto-restarting systemd services on an small VPS -- not depending on more serverless-style platforms helps keep maintenance needs low too, I find (though there are disadvantages, it doesn't really apply for one dude running a dozen web apps on a single server).

bostonvaulter2 6y ago
Does your note taking app support embedded files and images in-line?

lukeramsden 6y ago

Is Appsmith essentially a FOSS Retool? If so that's awesome and I may use that at some point

arey_abhishek 6y ago
Yes! It's a FOSS replacement for Retool, Powerapps, and other such low code products.