On: Show HN: Uranus – Memo and Task App

[k2enemy]

I love new note taking and TODO apps, but Docker, Tomcat, Java, Postgres, etc for a minimalist web app? Seems overkill.

[resotto → k2enemy]

Thanks for your reply! So you mean you want more functional one, right?

[pointytrees → resotto]

I think the feedback was, this looks like a very simple (but possibly useful) app, it should not have such heavy dependencies.

[resotto → pointytrees]

Now I understood! Thanks. Yeah, I agree with him, it’s too heavy. I think my recent app doesn’t have any heavy function, so that he might feel that.

[ravenstine → pointytrees]

What's heavy about any of that? I don't know what Tomcat is, but Docker is just a means of installing and running software in a VM(if host isn't Linux), Java is a perfectly fine language and runtime, and Postgres is a powerful and widely-used database. Any other self-hosted web app would require at least a language runtime and a database.

[bschwindHN → ravenstine]

Contrast it to something like Rust or Go compiled as a single native binary, using sqlite for storage. It's definitely heavy.

[nurettin → ravenstine]

Tomcat is a web server. Possibly thrown in as a word to be more verbose when making a point.

To me, size of the image is more important than the number of servers in it.

[resotto → nurettin]

Thanks for your opinion! Actually, I cared about the size of images but I think I could do more efforts on it! Next time, I’ll try to do so!

[nurettin → resotto]

I currently use taskwarrior and nextcloud to synchronize task states between computers. This web based solution would help get rid of the synchronization part if it replicated enough of taskwarrior's functionality.

What I use most in taskwarrior is creating, starting, stopping and closing tasks under projects, then I use hooks written in python which read the changes from stdin and post the task changes to jira and slack.

So if this project could support web hooks, I could write a glue service for it to call when new tasks are created or states are changed.

[ASalazarMX → resotto]

He was actually complaining because your program is not trivial to install, but I love the candidness of your answer.

[resotto → ASalazarMX]

Thanks! Yup, my app is too plain to install. So I need to reconsider what it should be!

[Shoop → resotto]

I love the UI! Maybe this would get into the hands of more people if it were just statically hosted html + js (maybe on gh-pages) that stored your todo items in browser local storage?

[resotto → Shoop]

Thanks for your opinion! Wow, it’s great. I keep your idea into this issue page later!!