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isonotes.com

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I have been building yet another note and document management site: https://isonotes.com/

Congrats for launching.

I've noticed that the gallery screenshots are hard to read (on a MacBook Air in this case) since they are scaled down too much.

Perhaps consider making screenshots with a smaller browser window size which reflects the area in which the screenshots are shown.

Thank you so much! Oh, is it? I actually over past couple of days, spent some time compressing them so that it loads faster. I might have to revert back. Or might add a video, if that helps?

Consider using low quality images initially, buy then using JavaScript to replace those placeholders with higher quality images after the page has loaded.

It's a common technique that seems to satisfy both the crowd wanting near instant page loads, and the crowd wanting high resolution experience.

Sure, will enhance it as you suggest. I also believe it has something to do with the component that I am using to render the images. I will investigate both possibilities. Thanks for the advice.

Future viewers...this is fixed now!

I am not in the market for something like this, but one thing I noticed is that your pricing levels do not have much variation. They're $7, $8, and $9, and it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of difference in what you get between these levels.

You might consider spreading the price out a bit - 5, 10, and 15 for example? And reconsider some of the resource levels? For example there doesn't seem to be much difference between 30, 35, and 40GB secondary storage.

Good luck with your project, your landing page sure looks nice!

So the idea is that ppl don’t ever have to go to standard/premium plan. It’s bcoz they can export and delete the notes. But I understand what you mean and thanks for highlighting it. I might actually do this. I can also give discount vouchers out if anyone wants it. Thanks again.

Sure...vouchers would be nice! What does the spreadsheet mode do?

So the spreadsheet is not a mode. It is one of the pages once you login. Basically you can go to the page and start creating spreadsheet/Excel documents, edit them and save them back to your disk. It is almost like having the Excel in the browser.

In terms of vouchers...I just updated the plans...the basic now is only 5$ (Australian Dollar), however, you can use HACKER10 code to get 15% off for first 6 months. The offer will be valid until end of this month.

Just updated the pricing plan to make it a bit different from each other.

Might want to check the website for accessibility issues. Your body text is way to small and according to the Chrome inspector, contrast is not sufficient for normal readability.

Thanks, I will check. I believe that is only for the site update timestamp at the bottom of the page. Once you login It should be fine.

Seems to be a SaaS note taking app with an extensive documentation / sales site describing it.

Clickable:

https://isonotes.com/

Thank you very much for adding the link.

Looks awesome! I like how you can export your notes! That's great. So many featuers.

Oh thank you. Yes, it is all in one note and document management site! I built something that I can use myself. :)

Are users allowed to have their own encryption key?

So when you export your notes, I have provided a page that you can use to password protect/encrypt using AES256 on your machine using your password that you choose for that notebook (notebooks up to 40~50 mb). The data also is encrypted on our servers so that if someone steals the disk, it will be useless to them. The server data encryption’s key is not per user though.

Tell us a bit on how you built it

Sure. So with ISO notes, you can create your notes two different ways. One RTF and the other is Markdowns. I have also provided the ability to export your notes. This helps you to keep your usage low...cheaper plans.

You can use Optical Character Recognition to extract text from images...that's the OCR feature. Additionally, there are 3 editors for editing Excel, Word and HTML documentation.

You also have access to ISO drive...which is sort of like OneDrive/GDrive. This mostly for storing your documents.

I have also provided dashboards that you can use to monitor your usage.

Finally, once your export your RTF notes as a notebook, which is in the form of HTML, you will still be able to search through your notes. There is a page where you can also encrypt your notebooks, if you wish so.

You asked how...if you mean what technology...secret recipe... :)

It is hosted on the cloud. The data is sitting in encrypted data stores...but for more info, I might create a proper post for it later.

> You asked how...if you mean what technology...secret recipe... :)

I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. Generally, the tech stack you're using is not that important to the protection of your product...

And it's hard to obfuscate the stack you're using anyway. From using the chrome extension [1] Wappalyzer we can tell, you're using:

- Azure cloud

- Stripe

- Google analytics

- JQuery

Which doesn't (and shouldn't) compromise your product/idea at all, so there's no harm in sharing your tech-stack (how you built it).

[1] https://www.wappalyzer.com/

Yes. These info can be easily seen from the view page source on the site. I guess, what could make a site vulnerable is the type or the version of components. For example what type of web server or which version of certain Java lib or .net dll.

Forgot to mention, you can export your Markdowns as *.md file. With markdowns you can insert graphs, math formulas and sequence diagrams too.

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