Hi! For now, Colanode is available only as a desktop app (Electron). The primary reason is that we wanted to implement some local-first features, which are currently more complex to achieve in the browser.
This looks great, it's a crowded field but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
The most important question before I'd try this is, do real time cross platform notifications work? If yes, how did you solve this for people self hosting?
That's a great question! We didn't come to it yet, because we are focused only in desktop app for now. This is definitely one of the challenges we need to solve once we start working on the mobile apps. The self-hosting use case makes it tricky (and probably fun challenge to solve).
You will also almost certainly want to either use the Apache 2 version of Minio[1] or label that dependency as AGPLv3 to ensure folks are aware. I would also recommend always pinning image versions, because you don't control what that project does or doesn't do in releases
Thank you! We're still working on the hosted offering, hence the "coming soon" pricing page.
Regarding Valkey, I included it as an example of a Redis compatible alternative, but you're right, it's probably better to use it in our Docker Compose file as well. Thanks also for pointing out the licensing considerations around Minio, will definitely look into that.
This looks very interesting purely because I can just about see from the very fast gif on the README that it has tasks in there, how much of a first class citizen they are of the app could be really important. It blows my mind that both Slack and Notion have such half-arsed task implementations - every time I need to introduce better, asynchronous task assignments at work I get pushback over "people won't use yet another app" - and sure enough, getting people to assign me something rather than @ notifying me while I'm nose deep in code of something that needs doing in a few days time has been impossible. A single app that lets a team manage work without constant interruptions would be the dream.
> Colanode consists of a Node.js server API and an Electron desktop client
Is the Electron app a necessity or is using a browser possible as well?
Hi! For now, Colanode is available only as a desktop app (Electron). The primary reason is that we wanted to implement some local-first features, which are currently more complex to achieve in the browser.
This looks great, it's a crowded field but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
The most important question before I'd try this is, do real time cross platform notifications work? If yes, how did you solve this for people self hosting?
That's a great question! We didn't come to it yet, because we are focused only in desktop app for now. This is definitely one of the challenges we need to solve once we start working on the mobile apps. The self-hosting use case makes it tricky (and probably fun challenge to solve).
Congratulations on your launch, the animation makes it seem like a neat product!
I don't think I've ever seen a "coming soon" pricing page before <https://colanode.com/pricing/>
For my curiosity, your readme mentions Valkey but the docker compose uses Redis - is that on purpose? https://github.com/colanode/colanode/blob/v0.1.3/docker-comp...
You will also almost certainly want to either use the Apache 2 version of Minio[1] or label that dependency as AGPLv3 to ensure folks are aware. I would also recommend always pinning image versions, because you don't control what that project does or doesn't do in releases
1: https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/RELEASE.2021-04-22T15-44...
Thank you! We're still working on the hosted offering, hence the "coming soon" pricing page.
Regarding Valkey, I included it as an example of a Redis compatible alternative, but you're right, it's probably better to use it in our Docker Compose file as well. Thanks also for pointing out the licensing considerations around Minio, will definitely look into that.
I'm excited to try this out! (seems to have some bandwidth issues, currently downloading at 24KB/s)
Is SSO implemented or planned in the near future? I feel that colanode would be a great fit for our start-up
sadly, app doesn't run on Intel Macs
Thank you! Will look into the download speed issue. As for SSO, we don't have immediate plans, but we'll certainly consider it for the future.
Hello! How does this compare to Huly?
This looks very interesting purely because I can just about see from the very fast gif on the README that it has tasks in there, how much of a first class citizen they are of the app could be really important. It blows my mind that both Slack and Notion have such half-arsed task implementations - every time I need to introduce better, asynchronous task assignments at work I get pushback over "people won't use yet another app" - and sure enough, getting people to assign me something rather than @ notifying me while I'm nose deep in code of something that needs doing in a few days time has been impossible. A single app that lets a team manage work without constant interruptions would be the dream.