alt Hacker NewsObsidian: We're mostly solving different problems. I wanted that text editor / IDE feel but with the ability to instantly share and collaborate. Bring in a full team, manage all your docs, give everyone different permissions etc.
So the problems I was thinking about were collaboration and content management between teams. But I also wanted it to work really well as a private personal tool. So in a way it's two tools in one. You can enjoy it solo, and then the hope is you've found something you like and now you can bring a team into it
Re the tech framing, I mostly mentioned it because I figured HN would find it interesting since it's the less taken path. Apologies if it came across as unrelated to the product.
Thanks for the response! My suggestion would be that if multiplayer aspects are really the key differentiator between Obsidian and your app, you should let the user see that straightaway. Maybe drop them into a shared workspace with other people or something? That could be cool.
As for the tech framing - I imagine you'll get lots of responses on that, and I'm sure it works for some people. Speaking personally, I think it irks me in particular because I feel that "React is slow" isn't really true -- but hey, we can sidestep that whole argument if you just tell me that your app loads a 100GB text file in 0.1ms or whatever :)