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Hi everyone, my name's Tim. I designed and developed Prodigy Notes over the past six months. Prodigy Notes is a web app designed for journaling, but could also

Hi everyone, my name's Tim. I designed and developed Prodigy Notes over the past six months. Prodigy Notes is a web app designed for journaling, but could also be used as a lightweight Evernote or OneNote alternative. There are a lot of options in this space, but the features that I wanted weren't all in one place, so I built Prodigy Notes to scratch my own itch. These features are: prominent word counter, side by side note view, and uncluttered UI. This is my first web app, and I'm putting this out there to get feedback on the usability, design, and technical approach. It's pretty basic now, so I've outlined a roadmap here: https://prodigynotes.com/blog/product-roadmap https://prodigynotes.com/blog/product-roadmap Thanks for your time!

mxuribe 11y ago
Neat design! I myself have a preference to self-host things...Do you plan on providing an option to self-host? Also others might be interested in what are the main differences between Prodigy Notes and, say, Simplenote.com ? Also the site is getting intermittent " 500 Internal Server Error" but that could just be from a bunch of HN traffic. In any case good luck!
- timdavila 11y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I plan to open source it down the road, which would give you the option to self host. Main differences? Right now, UI and functionality wise, not much. Simple Note has a whole slew of native apps and a few years of history going for them. In the future, I plan to tailor my offering to people who are trying to make writing a habit. That means activity calendars like Github for writing progress, with word counts by day for example, in app writing prompts, etc. It does look like the database is hiccuping right now. I am going to look into optimizing calls over the next few days- I'm a jr. dev and don't get paid to do this, so I'm learning in my spare time. Thanks for bearing with me!

mxuribe 11y ago

Neat design! I myself have a preference to self-host things...Do you plan on providing an option to self-host? Also others might be interested in what are the main differences between Prodigy Notes and, say, Simplenote.com ? Also the site is getting intermittent " 500 Internal Server Error" but that could just be from a bunch of HN traffic. In any case good luck!

timdavila 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I plan to open source it down the road, which would give you the option to self host. Main differences? Right now, UI and functionality wise, not much. Simple Note has a whole slew of native apps and a few years of history going for them. In the future, I plan to tailor my offering to people who are trying to make writing a habit. That means activity calendars like Github for writing progress, with word counts by day for example, in app writing prompts, etc. It does look like the database is hiccuping right now. I am going to look into optimizing calls over the next few days- I'm a jr. dev and don't get paid to do this, so I'm learning in my spare time. Thanks for bearing with me!