The project is a modular, fully customizable digital workspace designed for those who want complete control over their tools. Instead of being locked into predefined workflows, it lets you create, style, and organize tools as cards that seamlessly integrate into your workspace.
- How the Project Works
Tools - the app's core functionalities are it's tools, for example a notebook, kanban, webview...
Limitless Customization - Styling the tools as i refer to each instance of it a 'card' is a another core feature, from minimalist setups to complex multi-card workflows.
Plugin System - Extend functionality with plugins, making it adaptable to your needs, developer can use the app's api to make plugins/tools for the app.
Unlike traditional productivity apps, this project doesn’t force a specific structure. It’s an open-ended system where you build your own tools, layouts, and workflows instead of adapting to someone else’s design choices. Whether you need a note-taking space, a task manager, or something entirely unique, the project adapts to you.
- Check it out: https://github.com/hollow-app
Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or feedback!
Thanks a lot.
No open source, not selling me as a customer.
If you make your entire product about customisation, you're doing me a disservice to not let me adjust the code as suits my needs, asides from the ethical position on free software.
> However, tools developed for Hollow will need to be open source to be approved
Weirdly contradictory.
>"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."
It has to be real good before I'm willing to work for you for free. How much better are you than logseq, or even other closed source competitors like obsidian or roam research?
You want me to put my brain into this thing that I don't own?
>However, tools developed for Hollow will need to be open source to be approved as verified tools.
You want us to work for free, follow a specific license, but you're not willing to follow that license yourself? That borders on being disrespectful in my opinion.
Is that not true of the code you've written here as well? I don't understand why you have different rules for yourself or for people developing for your platform.
However, I am much more likely to use and contribute to the ecosystem of an app that is open source, in order to avoid a rug pull (relevant article https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-cast...).
I read in the website that it is not open source because it does not need to be, could you elaborate on this?
I understand concerns about long term sustainability and rug pulls. Unlike subscription based models or cloud locked apps, Hollow is 100% local, and the app remains fully usable regardless of future updates. The goal is to foster a plugin driven ecosystem rather than requiring contributors to maintain the core software.
And Thanks for trying out Hollow, really glad to hear you find it promising.
I am not sure if the above is marketing speech but of course you can open source it while not accepting PR that would harm the stability of the app.
Most developers interested in such software would not invest time and effort towards projects that may be abandoned soon, or that may have their future versions require subscriptions.
I am not going to be using Hollow, it is unusable in its current state and I do not see any security in helping the app grow.
This is the worst take about open source software I've seen in a while.
First impressions are everything, and as it stands, I 100% do not trust you as a sole developer. Like seriously, as a dude truing to get adoption of your project, WTF is wrong with you? why are you scared of the boogieman of releasing source code?
do you write code badly and will feel attacked by others reading it?
Also clicking explore does change the url to https://hollow-space.web.app/#0 but makes no visual difference. I have a feeling that quite a bit of the website is not working for me.
You'll likely land more people if you can provide context. For example, is it kind of like Notion, or Airtable, or HyperCard, or Trello? Is there a specific kind of person, or role, or task that is an especially good match?
Being closed source, feels that it isn't truely complete control, and predefined workflows usually solve or fix common business issues which make/reward being in a digital workspace.
I always describe it as a digital workspace as i see that as much of a global definition for the app, yet when i first started what i was working on is something similar to obsidian and notion but without it being natively a note taking app. Something empty that can be customized fully and supports plugin system, all that to make something that doesn't require to be constantly modernizing.
thanks again for the support.
I would have happily created an Arch Linux AUR package for Hollow if it were open source.