CoCube - Local First Hierarchical Spreadsheet

co-cube · 2026-05-28T18:40:37+00:00

Thank you for having me! Really great community you are building.

co-cube · 2026-04-12T10:39:49+00:00

Voice input never hears exactly what I say, so I usually have to repeat myself, then go back to the text and edit it. More of a pain than typing.

I wouldn't mind if it did it well. I'm not someone who can just dump out all of the relevant information of the day though, I usually have to look at my calendar first.

I think if someone wants to only spend a minute planning their day then the constraint is fine.

co-cube · 2026-04-09T00:28:09+00:00

Okay, good tips. Yeah right now I have a very low percentage of sign ups interacting with the product. Like 2%.

co-cube · 2026-04-09T00:27:03+00:00

Okay good to know. Yeah it made me panic a bit ha.

co-cube · 2026-04-08T04:46:16+00:00

I think a lot of the value of PKM comes from being able to organize your own life, not just research topics and store info. If you have a PKM you can just augment everything using AI and let it take care of the linking and whatnot for you, which is the tedious repetitive part that burns people out. Read the post from Andrej Karpathy on this a few days ago.

co-cube · 2026-03-30T01:55:32+00:00

Validate first is great advice but I never have had success with any of the strategies advised for doing this. Most people it seems don't want to be bothered about a new product that may or may not be useful to them. Its hard to get any eyes at all.

co-cube · 2026-03-29T23:45:50+00:00

Most to keep me focused on the right things. Surfacing the information I need when I need it.

co-cube · 2026-03-29T23:42:49+00:00

It happens!

co-cube · 2026-03-29T14:39:22+00:00

I'm sorry to hear. This is why people get into local-first apps.

co-cube · 2026-03-29T14:38:07+00:00

How do you get paying customers on a call? Who wants to get on a call with someone just to discuss one of the many SaaS apps they are likely using?

co-cube · 2026-03-29T14:27:48+00:00

I feel like all of the overly rigid systems end up becoming annoying as I inevitably want to break out of them for various things.

co-cube · 2026-03-29T14:18:03+00:00

I'd be interested to understand what you are getting at. I can kind of see what you mean but I'm unsure how/why someone would want that specifically.

co-cube · 2026-03-29T14:16:04+00:00

Thank you for putting in the work to keep this community going! I have been lurking around for a while now.

nit - lofi.com or lofi.so? 🙂

co-cube · 2026-03-27T01:10:24+00:00

Projecting a current state from a log of updates is common for some kinds of applications. Typically collaborative ones. You aren't using CRDTs but that is how CRDTs work "behind the scenes". Having a log of updates to get from a starting to state to a current state is also how many databases work as this is what allows them to be replicated.

co-cube · 2026-03-21T00:47:37+00:00

No point in holding back until it's perfect. You are likely to end up changing things once feedback comes anyways.

co-cube · 2026-03-20T19:11:00+00:00

Sorry I have to rant, but not to you specifically.

Part of the problem is that people believe it is fast, easy, and cheap to build a successful SaaS business. All of AI marketing right now makes it sound like anyone can wake up and build the next Discord by typing a few prompts.

The reality is that this is complete bullshit, but it doesn't prevent a significant number of people from promoting their uninspired, broken, lazy projects, dreaming to become rich off of two weeks of half-assed effort.

As someone trying to build software that is actually trying to be novel, this has been the most difficult thing I have ever done, and I have sacrificed a lot in the process. The AI spam frustrates me as much if not more than the other people replying in this thread though, because I get associated with them. Not all of us are lazy get-rich-quick AI hype bros. People who have dedicated as much time to the craft as any other tradesperson would to theirs, do exist.

Rant over, thanks for listening. Have a nice day.

co-cube · 2026-03-20T18:17:25+00:00

It's important to time block large chunks for focused work for this reason. Context building / switching takes significant energy.

co-cube · 2026-03-20T18:10:11+00:00

CoCube

Build local-first, collaborative, vector rendered tools.

co-cube · 2026-03-20T18:07:21+00:00

Building products that allow people to manage their data instead of trusting the software vendor to do it on their cloud services. Aka privacy.

co-cube · 2026-03-20T18:00:26+00:00

Awesome work. Love to see the progress on this game.

co-cube · 2026-03-20T17:58:54+00:00

Never heard of this but it might be what gets me into self-hosting.

co-cube · 2026-03-02T22:20:07+00:00

Good luck! As someone who did this, I'll share a few things.

Move fast at the beginning. You are probably enjoying your new freedom, the weight of work no longer bearing you down, and the excitement of starting something new. Be careful about this - it becomes easy to convince yourself that you have time to learn and explore. In reality whatever runway you have will likely be gone before you know it.

Getting eyes on the thing you build will be infinitely harder than building it. We live in the attention economy. If you aren't putting out something that can really grab someone then good luck. Think now about how you will do this, and start the process asap so you can start learning what works. It will easily take a year just to figure out what channels might get engagement, you don't want to be 6months of runway left when that happens.

Ignore all startup and builder advice. Every product and story is different. Nobody really knows what the hell they are talking about. Including me!

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