Re:Athens an open source Roam alternative
by benrbray on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:45PM
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I'm afraid of this too--that's why I'm rooting for Athens!
It's pretty clear from e.g. Roam's pricing that they're primarily targeting institutional licenses. They seem to have been pretty successful there, too.
Once Athens arrives, I fully expect them to eat Roam's lunch when it comes to individuals.
Being pessimistic, but I would bet it will be a walled garden. The solution will probably be key-in-hands and the easiest way for this is a traditional webapp. Not many people care about data ownership and bother dealing with their own file server.
See Notion, Google Keep, WorkFlowy, Dynalist, etc.