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co-founder here: Just a little context on the "why" from the site - > We created lowercase as a side project to make it easier for folks to quickly share conte
by siegers 2y ago
co-founder here: Just a little context on the "why" from the site -
> We created lowercase as a side project to make it easier for folks to quickly share content without the pressure of having the perfect blog post. Sometimes you just want to share thoughts without worrying about styling and hosting. Ideas aren't always structured. And sometimes simple and easy is what you need.
> A note-taking app that is simple, fun to use, snappy, and easy on the eyes. There is no one perfect note-taking tool. Everyone has their preferences. But we feel that we've landed on something nice.
> We built lowercase in our spare time as a passion project. No funding.
> We decided from the very beginning that we'd never collect or share any user data. We don't even use website analytics. The intent of lowercase is to stay lean and serve a purpose - make it easier to share thoughts in sometimes ever-evolving documents.
- bjourne 2y ago> We decided from the very beginning that we'd never collect or share any user data. Then why not use OAuth?
- siegers 2y agoWasn't necessary since we weren't intending to share information with another service and felt that the 3rd party requirement could be limiting.
- johnnyfived 2y agoThis answer doesn't make sense to me. If anything oauth far better proves you won't be sharing information with other services (you're not collecting logins and accounts). It's more limiting to ask users to sign up to the app.
- siegers 2y agoMeaning that we'd be limiting users that don't use the provider(s) that we'd support. At that time, we felt that username/password was the lowest friction at the time. We're happy to re-eval if needed though!
- beretguy 2y agoPlease leave username-password authentication. I never use oauth and absolutely hate it.
- nunodonato 2y agoexactly, I also hate websites that rely on oauth alone.
- bjourne 2y agoThen use both regular sign-up and OAuth? People that just want to try the service don't have patience for email verification.
- tbeseda 2y agoFYI, I can't delete my account: Request URL: https://www.lowercase.app/api/accounts/tbeseda/ https://www.lowercase.app/api/accounts/tbeseda/ Request Method: DELETE Status Code: 404 Not Found
- chrisandchris 2y agoCongrats! Looks refreshing! I'm currently (or just recently started) with Craft and your app looks like all the things I need without all the additional stuff Craft has. However, I would like my notes-app to be offline-first (with additional sync). Do you have any plans to support that ever?
- siegers 2y agoThanks! So we actually started with offline first originally (a standalone desktop app) and then rebuilt for the web. We had plans to revisit based on interest, etc. so it's good to get the feedback here and use that to shape the direction.
- eternityforest 2y agoI think the sharing features are the most interesting part to me. Google Keep has extremely fast load times and an Android optimized UI, plus home screen widgets and Wear OS, so it would be hard to replace that for personal notetaking. But very quick sharing and collaboration is still not quite a solved problem.