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Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files

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by DerArzt

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I'm not understanding the value here. If I'm writing markdown and avoiding notion, what does this provide my team that git does not?
I can easily write the markdown docs and they will render fin in most git forges.

by nashashmi

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The problem with the mission statement mentioning Notion is that notion is too big of a product and you are probably only aiming to displace a small part of it.
Secondly, if a server cant be spun up alongside this that serves markdown editing, that others can access immediately without going through a setup process, for guerilla collaboration, then it is not replacing notion. It is simply a different medium.
Notion is a lot of things; pages, triggers, actions, databases, and agents. You are focusing only on pages.

by helsontaveras18

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I liked the idea and the headline got me to click. But then I got confused with the Postman capabilities… So this is beyond markdown—it’s helping you build live dashboards with Markdown.
Why would I reach for that instead of Claude code building a dashboard with HTML/CS/JS?

by itunpredictable

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by jsjenfjri

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brother you should be competing with jupyter notebooks, you know the python and the math nerds who do data viz and all that sass
the average notion user is a brain dead idiot who doesnt even know what markdown means