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by alex_portabella 6y ago
How would you feel something like Help Jar ( https://helpjar.org ) fits into this space. It's a platform I've created where you can allocate anywhere from 0.1 - 5% of revenue to causes you believe in. Right now it's
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Yup exactly, try it out! You open, write a note and close it. All taken care of for you.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Wow that's a slick service. Love it
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey HN! Happy to be here for another launch. This time I'm showing off PrivaNote, my attempt at a modern day note taking application. A few highlights: - offline first - end-to-end encrypted sync - installable as a browser extension (C
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Show HN: PrivaNote – offline first, end-to-end encrypted notes(privanote.xyz)
10 points by alex_portabella 6y ago|5 comments
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Can anyone closer to development of Signal (or who works on it) comment on why the server code was last updated in April (7 months ago https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server )? Has _all_ development been client side
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey HN, for my last side project of the year I decided to build a much needed piece of infrastructure for the Celo ( https://celo.org ) blockchain ecosystem, an event subscription service. You can configure it to listen for events
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Show HN: Block Hooks, blockchain event subscriptions(block-hooks.com)
3 points by alex_portabella 6y ago|1 comments
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Crypto in Layman's Terms(portabella.io)
4 points by alex_portabella 6y ago|0 comments
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
IMO RxDB isn't a competitor here, we're talking about end-to-end encrypted solutions, RxDB is just a way of syncing JSON documents. In that sense Firebase, Parse, deepstream.io all handle that problem as well. What you want though
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Nice! This is actually exactly what Portabella ( https://portabella.io ) started out as around 7 months ago. I found that LocalStorage isn't reliable enough to keep all your important stuff, so my thought was to encrypt every
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
My bad, what I meant was "so reliant on others using it"
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Fixed, sorry about that one.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Well the primary benefit of Portabella is end-to-end encryption. The reason for e2ee is so you don't have to trust the provider. If you're hosting stuff yourself why wouldn't you trust your own infra? As long as you've g
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Makes sense! We've just launched our Documents feature, aiming to be a G Docs/Confluence alternative. Still early days though!
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Not yet, need to add that component. We're using Slate.js under the hood so it doesn't come out of the box.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
No way right now. I do think that self hosting takes away most benefits we provide. Hopefully open source soon!
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Fixed, I had my webp fallbacks setup wrong.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Thank you thank you! Similar thought process. I _do_ think that enterprise isn't our target market. Any large enough entity should probably self host their stuff, in that case e2ee isn't as appealing, assuming you trust your own c
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Thanks! Hope you give it a go. I agree I'll rework that a little and focus more on the benefits.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
I'm of the opinion that if stuff is not private, people will look at it and exploit it. In 2020 there's no reason we can't offer great UX while being encrypted, so this is my attempt at that.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey thanks for the feedback, will jump on this and get that fixed. I agree that is super annoying when it happens.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Yup, no searching across projects right now but for the current project that's loaded you can search it. Collaboration happens via websockets if that answers your question. Payloads are encrypted and broadcast to everyone subscribed to
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Thanks for the video! Was really interesting, I agree you've highlighted a bunch of improvements I can make. Good luck with future reviews! Will definitely be watching
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey HN! I've been working on Portabella during my weekends for the last six or so months. The idea is to compete with tools we all know such as Trello/Asana/Jira while being end-to-end encrypted and as privacy preserving as p
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Show HN: Portabella – privacy friendly project management(portabella.io)
41 points by alex_portabella 6y ago|17 comments
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Thanks! Combination of posting on Indie Hackers and Product Hunt. I've got quite the backlog currently.
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Simple queue, first come first served
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by alex_portabella 6y ago
Hey HN, I made and launched Just Launched around a week ago. Was a fun experiment where I had an idea and two days later I put it on Product Hunt. I think there is a space for a startup index/directory that doesn't overwhelm you w
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Show HN: Just Launched, like Product Hunt but only one featured product per day(just-launched.dev)
10 points by alex_portabella 6y ago|5 comments

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