open-notion
A fast, self-hosted Notion-style workspace for teams on an internal network. Server + desktop app, MIT.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 82%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2B
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- bun
- electron
- knowledge-base
- lan
- markdown
- mit-license
- +4 more
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Partial Building a basic markdown reader is easy, but developing a high-performance, real-time Notion-like block workspace with self-hosted server sync, CRDT collaborative editing, and cross-platform desktop shells is a complex engineering challenge.
What it would actually take: The stack typically uses Electron/Tauri for the desktop shell, React with rich-text block editors (ProseMirror, TipTap, or BlockSuite), and a Node/Rust backend. The critical difficulty is building a robust offline-first sync engine with conflict resolution (using CRDTs like Yjs or Automerge) while maintaining snappy desktop performance with nested databases and real-time collaboration. It requires solid distributed systems and editor-state architecture experience.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1846 of 2326 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.
- RustDeskPro · github · 2026-09-23 · 222 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Akashic · hn · 2026-07-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents · hn · 2026-06-22 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Kanwas, open-source shared context board for teams and agents · hn · 2026-04-30 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- TeamCodex · github · 2026-09-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- pero · github · 2026-10-28 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- folio · github · 2026-09-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- OpenWork - The open source alternative to Claude Cowork · yc · 2026-04-23 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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