I've written an Obsidian clone for myself, which has proper Emacs keybindings. Took me a few hours too many to get in all the features that I need.

What I find interesting is that I have little motivation to open source it. Making it usable for others requires a substantial amount of time, which would otherwise be just a fraction of the development time.

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bityard 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a theory (and I'm sure I am far from the first one to voice it) that the number of useful open source projects released to the public will be on the decline now that anyone scratch their own itch with a few hours of vibe coding. Why would I spend hours evaluating a dozen different note-taking applications and _maybe_ find one that is _kinda close_ to what I want, if I can instead have Claude vibe me one up _exactly_ the way I want it?

(I actually did write my own note-taking application, but that was before LLMs were any good at writing code.)

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archagon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Because when it eventually and inevitably corrupts your data, you won't know what to do or have any recourse?

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TheAceOfHearts an hour ago | parent [-]

Surely any sane person vibe coding a note taking app just has it save all the notes as markdown files to disk? At that point making a backup is trivial and they're unlikely to get corrupted.

	▲	archagon an hour ago \| parent [-]
		So why vibe code a version of a thing that already exists in a dozen different permutations, and with actual eyes on the codebase?

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xorvoid 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was thinking about doing the same. Build a clone with AI custom tailored for my own quirks. And not bothering to open source it because it's too bespoke for anyone else. How hard was this? Can you share any advice?