Files.md
Open-source alternative to Obsidian
Details
- External ID
- 48179677
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Files.md
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 730
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9983844911147012
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche creative and graphics software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- markdown note-taking application
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a local-first markdown note-taking app replicating basic Obsidian functionality using standard web/desktop technologies like Electron or Tauri, CodeMirror, and filesystem APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Obsidian, Joplin, Zettelkasten, Helix, mdterm
Concerns raised: Sync reliability between laptop and mobile compared to Obsidian's paid service, Unclear what specific problem it solves vs Obsidian's existing open-source approach, Free software restrictions despite not charging money, Most open source projects don't provide the value authors think they do, Risk of AI tools wiping notes during organization
Feature requests: Daily Note feature with templated notes and checklists (stretching, exercises, language practice), Better mobile and desktop sync capabilities, Remote image support, Plain text/Markdown file access on disk with UI features like Joplin
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 711 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 712 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 200 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hibi · hn · 2026-09-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- obsidian-spaces · github · 2026-09-15 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- ObsidianMD-Desktop · github · 2026-09-22 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Blast · hn · 2026-08-28 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- obsidian-mobile-companion · github · 2026-09-16 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- atlas-vtt · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Game-Catalogue · github · 2026-09-19 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- x-bookmarks-to-obsidian · github · 2026-09-09 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a content generation tool for Government yet.