Show HN: Opensidian

Brought to you, once again, by Claude

Has it become a trend to pick up some proprietary software and vibecode a replacement for it and then slap a FOSS license on it?

I love open source. But Obsidian exists. Cloning existing apps to open source is almost push-button in the age of Claude. Obsidian makes a good product and frankly barely charges for it. Yes it's closed source but since all your files are markdown there is no lock-in risk. I guess I'd rather see people in open source make new things than copy existing products especially when those products are made by small scrappy indie companies. If everything gets cloned I don't see who has any incentive to try and innovate the next new thing in commercial markets and honestly I see too little evidence of innovation vs. cloning in the open source world.

Why do you put a license on it when it‘s obviously not copyrightable?

i'm not much into ethics usually, but this is kinda low.

ethics aside, where is the profit? rust/tauri is same electron except with rust. legally questionable "open-source" label?

Not sure why we need a copy to be honest. You also pay for maintenance, updates, integration, etc. It is impressive as a project though.

What’s the benefit of tools like Obsidian vs using whatever code editor you have on hand? Why would I use it over vs, say, vs code?

It’s always good to have alternatives but without plugins this is not really obsidian competitor (yet).

UPDATE: added web version for testing https://opensidian.org/webversion/

Long term Opsidian user here. This looks exciting. Especially the UI being so snappy. Do you also support the plugin system?

Open-source and non-profit under GPLv3, vault-compatible cross-platform markdown notes app. A drop in replacement that supports most of the functionality. It's based on Rust + Tauri v2. Build it yourself, fork it, or run signed prebuilts RPM, DEB, AppImage and Flatpak.

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