FAQT

Productivity

personal knowledge base

SHOW HN2015

184points
110comments
#98of 2,565 in 2015
Top 4%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

5 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 24 critical, out of 55 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.

Idea: 3 for, 8 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 10 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, nice-looking design and UI

    From 3 comments
    • The frontpage design is nice, I can see the value - currently I'd use workflowy for small pieces of information like this. I think you're missing a trick by not having any of…
      tommoor on HN
    • This looks great but it's 100% a UI sell.
      FilterSweep on HN
    • I like this. Critiques / suggestions: * Esc should close a modal (hit "+", then hit Esc) * On that note, more keyboard shortcuts would be great * #hashtags should be recognized…
      johnmaguire2013 on HN
  • Useful idea for keeping personal knowledge

    From 2 comments
    • This is great! A boss at an old job used to track little nuggets of information in a Word Doc he called his "Master" file. It had everything from bugs he had discovered with rare…
      malexw on HN
    • Congrats on the launch! Your main competitor here is Evernote so I would highly recommend you implement a "Import from Evernote" feature, or at least tout it. I'm happy with…
      Axsuul on HN

Objections

  • Hosted SaaS with no self-hosting; concerns about storing personal data in the cloud

    From 3 comments
    • For some reason, I have expected it to be installable on my own hardware, not SaaS. That's the kind of personal I am looking for right now.
      listic on HN
    • I don't know how you guys think of this, but putting personal stuff into the cloud, aka others' computer, without encryption is not looking so personal to me.
      4684499 on HN
    • Haven't people been doing this for a long time? Maintaining and categorizing their pieces of personal knowledge - in files? I personally don't understand, why such a tool need to…
      ecthiender on HN
  • Missing legal, contact and privacy information at launch

    From 2 comments
    • How can a website / service be operated in 2015 without any contact or legal information? How am I supposed to use this for my personal information without being able to read the…
      tjosten on HN
    • Nope. Has to be linked from the homepage, among other requirements. http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579
      zyxley on HN
  • No full-text search

    From 2 comments
    • Can't use this without full-text search... it's a shame. I was looking for something more pretty than Tomboy Notes, but so far nothing is beating it.
      jszymborski on HN
    • Thanks, and good questions. Here's a first pass: - Not yet: But I'm a big fan of Rich Hickey's thoughts on data and time if that gives any clues on where I'd like to take it…
      siavosh on HN
  • Unclear business model and longevity

    From 2 comments
    • Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you…
      Gmo on HN
    • So, given that it's free, what is the business model?
      perfunctory on HN

Requests

  • Export and backups

    From 2 comments
    • For those who are wondering how the styling looks, I signed up and copy-pasted a markdown sample here: https://app.faqt.co/share/k6hs7l This looks pretty cool. I think I'l be…
      captn3m0 on HN
    • Really cool. A couple of things I'd like to see would be: - Change the window title to something other than 'Dashboard', and add a favicon. - Give me a way to get my data out.…
      tomhenderson on HN
  • Revision history

    From 2 comments
    • For those who are wondering how the styling looks, I signed up and copy-pasted a markdown sample here: https://app.faqt.co/share/k6hs7l This looks pretty cool. I think I'l be…
      captn3m0 on HN
    • Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you…
      Gmo on HN
  • Full-text search

    From 1 comment
    • Thanks, and good questions. Here's a first pass: - Not yet: But I'm a big fan of Rich Hickey's thoughts on data and time if that gives any clues on where I'd like to take it…
      siavosh on HN
  • Demo or screenshots on the homepage

    From 2 comments
    • This looks really nice. A small suggestion: Put a video, demo, screenshots or tour on the homepage. I found it kind of hard to visualize how the product actually looks and works…
      deanclatworthy on HN
    • You really need a demo on the homepage. For ex: you should remove the need to signup to use it first, let them create a FAQ, then signup to save it to a particular account.
      dmix on HN
  • API access

    From 1 comment
    • For those who are wondering how the styling looks, I signed up and copy-pasted a markdown sample here: https://app.faqt.co/share/k6hs7l This looks pretty cool. I think I'l be…
      captn3m0 on HN

Questions

  • What is the business model?

    From 2 comments
    • Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you…
      Gmo on HN
    • So, given that it's free, what is the business model?
      perfunctory on HN
  • What is the tech stack?

    From 1 comment
    • Ok since nobody asked.. What is the tech stack behind?
      cad on HN

Alternatives named

  • Evernote

    From 2 comments
    • Congrats on the launch! Your main competitor here is Evernote so I would highly recommend you implement a "Import from Evernote" feature, or at least tout it. I'm happy with…
      Axsuul on HN
    • Evernote, DEVONthink, and Google Docs are the big players. There's also: http://are.na/, http://pinterest.com, http://www.dropmark.com/, https://kippt.com/, https://pinboard.in/,…
      msutherl on HN
  • Google Keep

    From 2 comments
    • evernote kind of apps don't work. Except Google Keep. Keep kinda works.
      cad on HN
    • What's the benefit of this over something like Google Keep or Evernote? One thing I think could be interesting is if you let me own my data; not in A ToS, but actually let me…
      aagha on HN
  • Trello

    From 2 comments
    • http://trello.com
      adnanh on HN
    • This looks really nice. A small suggestion: Put a video, demo, screenshots or tour on the homepage. I found it kind of hard to visualize how the product actually looks and works…
      deanclatworthy on HN
  • TiddlyWiki

    From 2 comments
    • notepad.cc tiddlywiki.com keep.google.com ...
      ssriram on HN
    • Have you tried Tiddliwiki? (http://tiddlywiki.com/), single file wiki, used it for a few years is fantastic
      Cub3 on HN
  • Simplenote

    From 1 comment
    • there's simplenote, which is multi platform. Im waiting for markdown support on Android (it's there on iOS).
      steaminghacker on HN

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