Anton Pronkin

Anytype - Public Beta - A safe space for your thoughts, private, local, p2p & open

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Anytype is a radically improved knowledge management tool for people who value their data. Use Anytype to make dashboards, projects, and knowledge graphs - all using our no-code editor. E2E encrypted πŸ” Local-first ❌☁️ P2P synced πŸ‘―β€β™€οΈ Open source πŸ’Ž

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Anton Pronkin
Hello, Product Hunt! We are thrilled to announce the open beta for Anytype today! We believe that any software should support fundamental digital freedoms. With the rise of cryptography and computer systems, it's now possible to guarantee these freedoms in the digital world: privacy of thoughts, freedom of speech, right to authorship, and autonomy from software providers. With these principles in mind, we've crafted Anytype - an all-in-one tool that can help you organise your digital life. People use it to manage projects, organise collections of movies and books, for daily journaling, and a long tail of other use-cases. Anytype is a community product, built with the community. We listen, we improve, and we welcome you to join and give your perspective on how Anytype should evolve. Visit our community at community.anytype.io We warmly welcome you to our contributors' community, which we just launched today: https://github.com/orgs/anyproto... We're happy to answer your questions! Anton Pronkin Co-founder of Anytype
Gabe Moronta
@pronkin_ This is pretty cool, congrats on the launch!
Anton Pronkin
@gabe_moronta thank you 🌈
Jonathan Zhan
@pronkin_ Hi, congratulations on the 2.0 launch! In Nov 22 https://community.anytype.io/t/w... anytype communicated that the web clipper was being delayed due to reprioritisation - would you be able to share about where that sits on the roadmap now? It's a very important piece of the puzzle for me. :)
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Zhanna Sharipova
@pronkin_ @jonzhan We will definitely present Anytype webclipper in the near future; we have already started development. It is challenging to run webclipper with a client-first application and provide a high-quality user experience, but we are excited to do so. The coolest part is that it also will be open sourced, so community can help us improve it
Jag Singh
This is legit, and I would obviously say this as one of Anytype's first investors. But I was also one of their first users in the pre-alpha phase a while back. I distinctly remember how that version crashed and took down the entire office network. Today, I'm genuinely impressed, and very proud of @pronkin_ and @sharipova and @charmandro and @anton_barulenkov and @requilence and @yasyuk . I've just downloaded and synced a bunch of notes across my Mac, Pixel phone and iPad - and it worked like a dream. Now if you can just fix the onboarding process and simplify it, I'll be able to get my mom to use it too...
Roman Khafizianov
@jagsingh Haha, yep! That was when our P2P stack thought routers were just speed bumps. Whoops! πŸ˜… Now we're making sure to take care of them. Thank you, Jag!
Charlotte Chiang
@pronkin_ @sharipova @anton_barulenkov @requilence @yasyuk @jagsingh It is still one of my most vivid memories from those three months ;)
Zhanna Sharipova
@jagsingh Thank you, Jag! That dream we had 4 years ago of peer-to-peer app that would feel fun to use has made to Open Beta with your support!
Waren Gonzaga
Anytype is the future of second brain and note-taking app. I was looking for an alternative to Notion, I love the features they have but I'm concerned about my privacy and security. I tried Obsidian and it is promising too but lacks features like Notion. I was looking for an alternative to both of them. I found Evernote and Nimbus Note but they are all overkill for my use case. I don't want to take so much time for organizing my things and again they are hosted on their servers and I'm still worried for my privacy. Until I come across to "toolfinder.co" website by Keep Productive and I saw this product! I was so amazed because this note-taking app uses cryptography and I can say this app is a "Web3" product which is perfect for me as I work in this industry. I love the idea and the principles of this product. As opensource and web3 advocate this is a must app for you to use when you want to organize your digital life. I can tell that Anytype is a combination of Obsidian and Notion but Web3. Just today I started to use this app as my main and permanent second brain. I'll probably include Anytype in my blog when I share my productivity apps. Great work out there!
Zhanna Sharipova
@warengonzaga great to hear you found anytype and that it delivers a sweetspot of beautiful writing tool, powerful way to organize objects and also all the architectural benefits of private, offline first, user-owned world. Hope you can move more of use cases to anytype
Waren Gonzaga
@sharipova Indeed will share more from my blog about how I use Anytype as a web3 user. However, I have a question about the storage. Are you folks using IPFS or any decentralized storage system?
Zhanna Sharipova
@warengonzaga we use IPFS for files. Though your devices create a private IPFS network (so your files are only stored by you, not some other people)
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Zhanna Sharipova
Today, we are introducing an all-in-one app that is used for project management, strategic documents, daily notes, task management, collections of books, articles, and other interests, personal CRM. All of which are end-to-end encrypted, work offline, sync in a p2p way, and are blazingly fast. Anytype no-code interface allows to create anything visually - from web pages to data-bases and sites. We designed the architecture of anytype to provide creators with peace of mind. Everything you are creating is yours - it’s encrypted, you control the keys, the code is open source, so anyone can verify its workings. Additionally, you get some very cool features from the box - it works on all devices, these devices can sync in peer to peer way, and everything works offline without a loss of capabilities. This architecture is enveloped into a tool that is both powerful and fun to use. At the heart of anytype is a graph of objects - that allows to interconnect all your objects and also is a universal language for all spaces. Anytype was built as a hope. That if we put our ethos, our values as the foundation of its architecture we can deliver something meaningful for those of us who cherish the dreams of a different world. I hope you can feel love and commitment that we poured into this piece of software.
kreme
@sharipova "...if we put our ethos, our values as the foundation of its architecture we can deliver something meaningful for those of us who cherish the dreams of a different world." πŸ’• wonderfully said but even more impressive than the sentiment is your team's actual implementation of those words which is evident in the principles that built one of the most elegant, modular, and therefore, powerful digital tools i've ever used πŸ’Ž what an exciting ship to board w/ a world of potential still on the horizon πŸŒ… a million congrats to the team's public launch yesterday πŸ‘πŸ½ 🌹
Dilyara Mingalieva
I've been a heavy user of Anytype at closed Alpha!!! Great product, finally I’ve replaced Notion and many other apps! So happy that it's public now! Finally, there is an app that protects my digital freedom!
Zhanna Sharipova
@mingalieva thank you for warm words, very glad you found anytype useful
Alex Katsalukha
I keep my neverending to-do list in Anytype. Syncs on all devices + is offline-first + I own my data 🀟🏻. With my text-only style, I'm far away from filling the remote backup node that Anytype provides to users (but additional options would be cool!)
Zhanna Sharipova
@alexey_katsalukha very glad anytype can help and that enjoy offline mode!
Arild Langtind
Just discovered Anytype, but I love what I've found. Secure, private, offline, soon to be open sourced!
Zhanna Sharipova
@langtind glad to hear you like anytype! The repositories are actually open! So we can officially say it's open source :)
aleksandr shamis
I was counting the days to this moment. Don't think I've not been so excited about a product launch in a while. I've been an investor and user from almost day 1. Today Anytype is a breath of fresh air. There are so many apps that look similar on the surface, but none solve the infrastructural issues of privacy, speed, and extensibility.
Zhanna Sharipova
@aleksandr_shamis thank you Alex! We've been waiting for this day as well and so happy to announce the open beta and open all our repositories to prove that the infrastructure works the ways it says :)
Roman Khafizianov
Anytype for me started with pure curiosity. In my school days, the internet was both costly and slow. I found myself building local networks with friends and crafting chat apps using raw TCP/IP. Fast forward to today, the landscape of app development has shifted. Many developers now lean on cloud platforms, supposed to hide from you the underlying technologies and challenges. However, this convenience comes at a cost: inefficiency, potential data breaches, and a loss of the data ownership. At the same time, over the past two decades, customer hardware has evolved remarkably. We now have affordable and speedy mobile internet, as well as smartphones with 1TB of storage. Given these advancements, the appeal of the cloud should have waned. Yet, many of us remain dependent on cloud providers and the tools that are tethered to them. So for me it was the challenge to build something useful, while using the technologies consciously in an efficient and truly secure way. When we began this journey, many said we were crazy – and perhaps they were right πŸ˜…! We encountered numerous challenges and had to address issues across the entire tech stack, rather than just focusing on user-facing features. However, this approach enriched our technical understanding and led us to more balanced solutions that remained true to our original principles. I'm so proud of Anytype team which made it possible and excited that it's now open for everyone.
Charlotte Chiang
@requilence crazy journeys are the best ones =D
Tatiana Stronskaya
I just checked out Anytype, and I'm blown away! It seems like an all-in-one solution that can revolutionize the way we organize and manage our digital lives. With its versatile features and customizable capabilities, I can't wait to explore how it streamlines my workflow and keeps everything in one place. This truly looks like a game-changer! πŸ‘πŸΌ
Charlotte Chiang
@tatiana_stronskaya Thank you so much Tatiana! Your words mean a lot, can't wait for you to try the product; I hope you will enjoy using it as much as we have enjoyed building it :)
Zhanna Sharipova
@tatiana_stronskaya thank you for your kind words! hope to deliver this game-changing experience
Bob Lucore
Anytype is much more than a note-taking app. It has the potential to overturn our corporate-dominated internet and help us all to build a new, privacy-first, cooperative web. This could be the future if we support the effort.
Zhanna Sharipova
@bob_lucore thank you Bob! This is exactly our mission to build a more cooperative web. All our architectural and design choices are best on giving the creators tools to rebuild the web that respects digital freedoms and they can govern together
Charlotte Chiang
@bob_lucore Bob, thank you! Just wanted to say that it means so much to know that our mission is resonating. Glad to have you in our community!
Konstantin Mordan
πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to the entire team on this fantastic launch! πŸš€πŸŒŸ I couldn't be more thrilled to see this incredible product making its way to the forefront of the tech world. It's evident that your hard work, dedication, and passion have come together to create something truly remarkable 😍
Zhanna Sharipova
@konstantinmordan it was a wonderful ride! and it only starts :)
Evgenii Kozlov
This product embodies the essence of Marshall McLuhan's quote: "First we build the tools, then they build us." It has the potential to become a universal tool in your digital garden.
Zhanna Sharipova
@herecomestheblues I love the quote and can't agree more :)
Sergey Fuksman
The source code for the entire system is published on GitHub, not just some parts! So not only can everyone verify the code, but even self-host Anytype 🀯
Zhanna Sharipova
@fuksman thank you, Sergey, the repos look great :)
Mahmudul Hasan
Seems like a versatile and comprehensive solution for organizing and managing various aspects of life and work.
Zhanna Sharipova
@hasan_ui_design thank you for your praise
Simon Heuschkel
I love Anytype and have been using it for a while . So happy it’s public now !
Charlotte Chiang
@heuschkelsimon Thank you @heuschkelsimon, that's really cool to hear! We're also thrilled for this to go public and share Anytype with the world!
Zhanna Sharipova
@heuschkelsimon thank you Simon! Hope to bring some cool staff with next releases :)
Sandy
HYPEEEEE!! LET'S GOOOO!!! I only joined Anytype this June and I couldn't be more happy with the product. I have my library with the list of books I've read. I have my travel list with all the places I've been to. I have my notes about this Game Engine that I've been learning. I'm in the process of building my habit tracker now. You fricking rock, guys! Keep going!
Zhanna Sharipova
@upriver7066 Sandy, thank you very much for this review! super excited that you like anytype!
Tigr
I have been following the development of this wonderful app for half a year, and the speed of pushing new features, fixing bugs and managing the community are amazing! I believe, at that speed of development it will become the best productivity app ever! And the best thing about it, is that it's open source!
Zhanna Sharipova
@new_user__18820233d189b94da76ea55 thank you for your support! We are trying our best to make open source software become best in class it its category
Anthony Akentiev
I don't like companies which monetize my data. It is so cool that we have privacy-first products. Anytype rocks!!!
Zhanna Sharipova
@anthonyakentiev hope you enjoy piece of mind with anytype, knowing all is safe and encrypted and noone apart from you can access your account
DiSonDS
I have been using Anytype since last August and I think with this application I will be for a long time (I would like). I was looking for something beautiful like Notion, while offline like Obsidian and found it!
Zhanna Sharipova
@disonds glad you like this combination of beauty + offline first