Done paying for Notion and Obsidian, they built and open-sourced a notes app
Kuro Shiro didn't want to pay for Notion and Obsidian anymore, so they built their own note app and open-sourced it. The self-roast is the best part: their other products still have zero paying users, 'lol', but this one gets used every single day. That's the quiet truth of the personal-software era. The most successful app you ever build might be the one with a user count of one, and that one user just stopped paying two note-taking companies.
didn't want to pay for notion and obsidian anymore
so I built my own note app and open sourced it
still 0 paying users on my other products lol, but this one I actually use every day
— Kuro Shiro, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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