noema
An original, open-source, self-hosted workspace for notes, docs and databases.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 71%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- database
- docs
- local-first
- nextjs
- notes
- notion-alternative
- +6 more in the details below
Similar launches
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Partial A block-based notes, docs, and database editor with a self-hosted deployment is largely vibe-codeable, but a Notion-class product needs real-time multi-user collaboration and a robust block/database model, which are hard to get right without deep engineering.
What it would actually take: Likely a React/TypeScript frontend with a rich-text editor framework (e.g., ProseMirror, TipTap, or Lexical) and a Postgres or SQLite backend, packaged as a Docker image. The hard parts are conflict-free real-time sync (CRDTs such as Yjs or Automerge, or OT), permissions, and data migrations across versions. Building it well takes strong distributed-systems and editor-engineering experience, not just AI-assisted UI work.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1804 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1314 of 1805 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kolibre · github · 2026-10-02 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- notecraft · github · 2026-10-17 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- AnyDo-Suite · github · 2026-09-22 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- TexLite · hn · 2026-08-26 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- local-workspace-mcp · github · 2026-09-11 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS · hn · 2026-05-27 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- elixiroffice · github · 2026-10-11 · 176 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- agentbox · github · 2026-09-28 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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More details
- External ID
- 1423297796
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- noema
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.29
- All tags
- database, docs, local-first, nextjs, notes, notion-alternative, open-source, postgres, prisma, self-hosted, tauri, typescript
- AI summary
- self-hosted open-source workspace for notes docs and databases
- Manually corrected
- No