Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Research

Re:Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Re... by Grustaf on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:08PM (#26331297)

If, like OP, you are concerned about the closed nature of Roam, you could make that converter instead of a replacement for Roam.

You could say openness is “a feature, not a product”, and it’s a feature that could be retrofitted.

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Re:Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Re... by randomchars on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:58PM (#26332066)

You could, yeah.

You could put in a lot of work, just for read-only feature parity.

Or you could work some more, and have a competing product.

You seem adamant, that the former is a better path, but I don't quite see why would you do all that work for naught.

(Roam already broke my backup script 2 times, and there are better uses of my time than interfacing with a proprietary product, if there are better alternatives.)

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Re:Launch HN: Athens Research (YC W21) – Open-Source Roam Re... by Grustaf on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:29AM (#26341125)

I'd say a parser is an order of magnitude less work, but if someone wants to make a full product I'm not going to try to stop them.

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