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great work, been looking for something like this for a while — love that it‘s open source
First about the comparison with DocSend. Papermark is

1. Open source-first: Papermark is 100% open-source and open to contributions. Host it yourself, fork it, modify it to your desire! Document infrastructure as never been so open and accessible!

2. Fully customizable: you can use custom domains to share a pitch deck or documents and custom branding.

3. Real-time analytics: we use Tinybird's Clickhouse under the hood to enable real-time analytics. We will also add more advanced analytics like heatmaps.

4. AI-driven: this is very much in experimentation, but we aim to add create specific usecases like creating summaries, memos, asking the document questions to Papermark.

To your second question, we are working on a clean REST API that developers can use to access the full suite of Papermark programmatically. This will enable new usecases and integrate much better with existing applications and tools. We are still looking for design partners before we launch it.

There are many millions of documents being created and shared on any given day. However, the moment you share a document you have no idea if the recipient, whether a client, investor or colleague has actually viewed the document or engaged with the document in any way. You are completely left in the dark.

Papermark is providing you actionable insights for your files. Just like you have Mixpanel or Datadog for your application, there is Papermark for your files.

Thanks for the trust jakozloski! Happy to serve you
Thanks :)

Let me know if you have any questions and if you're a developer, how you feel about deeper integrations with your tech stack / apps.

Show HN: Papermark – the open-source DocSend alternative with custom domains

https://www.papermark.io/

Hi HN! We’re Marc and Iuliia from Papermark (https://papermark.io). We're building an open-source, modern document sharing platform with real-time engagement analytics and 100% customization.It all started as a tweet [1] and led to our launch on Product Hunt [2] last month. We crossed over 1000 stars and over 10 contributors on GitHub (https://github.com/mfts/papermark).Incumbents, like...

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Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:34AM (#36722980)
The vision for the v1 is spot on. There were some attempts to turn the open source ecosystem into a creator economy - they are so similar but…

The big BUT is that software needs to be maintained whereas a video once uploaded on YouTube doesn‘t need to be edited again.

I have a feeling that Birk and the Polar team have the right insights to build the right tools to serve the specific needs of open-source software maintainers.

Re:Tea/GUI: The 'Open Store' for Open Source on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:35AM (#35948828)
thanks magnusviri - with the tea/gui, it’s also a perfect complement to the tea/cli
Re:Tea/GUI: The 'Open Store' for Open Source on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:32AM (#35948779)
Hey tea team here. Building tea/gui was really to enable developers and non-developers to do more with open source software than a command-line interface allows us to do.

tea/gui is fully open source and available on GitHub.

We will be adding more capabilities like actions (turn postgres into a service), scripts store and more.

Re:Sponsor the open source projects you depend on on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:27AM (#35523549)
Donations are not a perfect mechanism, there's significant friction.

tea.xyz will not have fees once it goes live with its funding protocol for open-source software.

Huge fan since Devbook and really happy you found a killer feature of Devbook‘s tooling combined with AI
Also check out the launch on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/onboarding-love
Onboarding Love is a drop from Marbleflows, an onboarding platform, that covers the first user experience and onboarding from the best software companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Webflow, Slack, Canva, and dozens more.

The user journeys are documented as screenshots and are available for free. Included are pre-built templates that replicate said user journeys in the Marbleflows platform.

Marbleflows makes it dead simple to create flows for user onboarding and other use cases.

Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:51PM (#32599113)
That’s interesting threat. I strongly believe in sustainable monetization in open source software. There’s a project called Tea (tea.xyz), a package manager as the evolution of Homebrew.

I honestly believe that understanding the entire dependency graph of open source project will help redistribute money to all packages democratically.

I’m curious to hear what other devs think

Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:36AM (#32590758)
I agree that it doesn’t make sense to let some institution define what open source is.

In the end for open source to be open source it should be publicly accessible.

Anything else should be defined in the license as the maintainer/creator wishes.

Re:Beam: Simple sharing across your organization on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:31PM (#30448178)
Love this internal communication tool! It uses my favorite stack Next.js + NextAuth + PlanetScale + Prisma, so I couldn't help it but make a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMrH444Bvw4

It's a quick code and deploy walkthrough

Re:Beam: Simple sharing across your organization on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:30PM (#30448161)
This should be fixed now :)
Re:Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:25AM (#27127306)
Congratulations to Katherine for this amazing project. I do believe this will improve the overall developer experience.

I was so excited I made a video about it and shared my thoughts on why and how GitHub should integrate this. https://youtu.be/kfOimInsnr4

I'm a huge fan of the lightweight nature of Cusdis.

I made this walk-through video of the project inclusive the deployment to Vercel and Railway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHr0oBIA2xA

Re:Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:13PM (#26825572)
Congrats on releasing it. You definitely see how much work went into Calendly once you parse Calendso's source code. But where there's a will there's a way. Super excited what's possible with Calendso.

I made a quick video to explore the open source project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIQhG8AL0w

Re:Egghead.com Redirects to Amazon.com on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:26AM (#25441740)
What are your theories why Amazon registered Egghead.com?
Re:Spotify trying to lock-in users just after IPO (2018) on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:47AM (#19379820)
Couldn't Spotify argue that the creation of the playlist on Spotify and therefore the resulting object "playlist" is a unique property of Spotify and therefore lockable to their service, excludable from APIs...
Re:Prisma Cloud – A GraphQL Database Platform on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @11:33AM (#16529868)
Disclaimer I'm not from Graphcool or Prisma, but avid user of both

Prisma is the unbundled version of Graphcool.

Graphcool's main selling point was that everything was hosted: "The Parse for GraphQL".

Prisma's main selling point is that you can host your own database wherever you want and Prisma generates the Schema and TypeDefs for you based on CRUD operations. Compared to Graphcool, you get one instead of two endpoints (Relay and Simple API endpoints are the same in Prisma). Now you can connect your client directly to the Prisma endpoint or you build a GraphQL Server (with graphql-yoga or apollo-server) between your client and database.

All resolvers (auth, file hosting, etc) are written on this GraphQL Server level.

Prisma is a lot more flexible and now also bigger enterprises with legacy databases can use them more easily.

Hope that answers your question. Again, I don't work there but really like their product.

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