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Company blog · museapp.com/memosproductivitydesign
Allume is the company blog at museapp.com, writing about productivity and design. Since 2019, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Muse – Your Tool for Thought”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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60mentions?
36HN people?
2019–2025first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Muse, the Ink & Switch spinout's thinking app, mostly as a comparison for canvas tools. Its podcast on building products and company models is the writing commenters single out.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Allume is a cozy space for deep thinking. Let your ideas branch and grow inside nested boards. Available for iPad and Mac.
Most-linked posts?
- Muse – Your Tool for Thought15 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2019-08-13
- Muse 2.0 - Tool for Thought on iPad and Mac8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-09-03
- An End, and a Beginning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-29
- /podcast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-27
- /how/nestedboards/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-25
What Hacker News says?
(this should probably be a post) CRDTs and local first are ideas that is perpetually in the hype cycle for the last decade or so, starting around the time Riak CRDTs became a thing and continuing all the way to today. Niki's post is a perfect illustration: CRDTs offer this "magical" experience that seems perfectly good until you try building a product with them. Then it becomes a nightmare of tradeoffs: - state-base…
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on “Local First, Forever”Submitted Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync as a story · 178 points
HN discussionCraft Docs is a good Notion alternative I personally like, and they're avoiding the data moat angle: https://museapp.com/podcast/26-no-data-moat/
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on “Notion API – public beta”Submitted Muse 2.0 - Tool for Thought on iPad and Mac as a story · 137 points
HN discussionMuse | Local-first engineer | Remote Muse is an iPad (and soon, Mac) app for deep thinking. This job is to help build the local-first syncing infrastructure using Go, CRDTs, websockets, and Postgres. Knowledge of Swift/iOS development a bonus. https://museapp.com/jobs/local-first-engineer
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Muse – Your Tool for Thought as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI had the pleasure of working with Mark for ~3.5 years at Heroku just prior to him joining Stripe. Since leaving Stripe, he’s been working on research projects at Ink & Switch, one of which they recently chose to focus on as a stand-alone business: https://museapp.com/
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on “Lessons from Stripe”Submitted Muse for Mac as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMuse | Remote | iOS Engineer, Systems Engineer Muse is an independent software company that makes an iPad app for thoughtful work. The app brings together your research, photos, and notes in a single fluid workspace: https://museapp.com We're hiring one engineer to join our all-remote team of four. One profile that's a good fit is an experienced iOS engineer: https://museapp.com/ios-engineer If you're excited about…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)”Submitted Infinite Canvas – Muse Memo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMuse | engineering partner | remote | https://museapp.com Muse is an iPad app for research, deep thinking, and creativity. We're a four-person team seeking an engineer to join as a ful partner in the business. You should be excited about high-performance software like video/audio editing tools, game engines, or browser internals. Swift+iOS experience helpful but not required. Conference talk by a founder: https://ww…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)”Submitted Muse: A fluid workspace, for your best ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMuse | Remote | iOS and Systems Engineers | https://museapp.com Muse is an iPad app to empower freeform, creative thinking. The company spun off from our industrial research lab ( https://www.inkandswitch.com); we’re taking the novel interface approaches and technical ideas developed in that setting and turning them into a real-world product. Learn more about Muse: - Conference talk by a founder: https://www.youtube…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)”Submitted Muse Is a Canvas for Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInk and switch has several projects and articles: https://www.inkandswitch.com/ Some folks from Ink and switch made a podcast that I've really liked: https://museapp.com/podcast/ Bret Victor (from Dynamicland) has lots of projects, articles, and talks: https://worrydream.com/Home2011/ The future of coding has a newsletter and a podcast, but I haven't dug into them: https://newsletter.futureofcoding.org/
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on “Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers”Submitted An End, and a Beginning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can search: https://museapp.com/handbook#to-search -- but you're right this isn't our main focus, the way it is for something like https://mymind.com/ . What we've seen from the year of beta testing is that our spatial memories are very powerful and even users with huge corpuses navigate rather than search. Yes, boards and cards are a key abstraction. Boards are just a type of card that can contain other boards-…
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on “Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad”Submitted Muse – App to Develop Ideas as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat's a really good question—I would love such a resource. There are some design discussions on the emacs mailing list about the tradeoff between accessibility and power tool that might be relevant: https://lwn.net/Articles/819452/ It's a whole new ballgame in the mobile era though. People have been trained to dismiss an app if they can't figure it out in 10 seconds of use. Mark and I talked about that on this podc…
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on “Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad”If you're in the early stage building a product, their podcast is extremely helpful. It really deserves a Show HN all of its own. https://museapp.com/podcast I particularly enjoyed two recent ones, Authentic Marketing[0] and Principled Products[1] (which also has some background about 12 Factor Apps, if you remember that). Very useful for our stage where we have a new thing, but we're still trying to figure out how…
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on “Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad”Thanks for the feedback. - You can use the trial for unlimited time, and many folks do. - We've tried onboarding that includes sample boards, but this tends to be confusing because it's someone else's thoughts rather than your own. - There is a learning curve--we like tools take a bit of time investment, but one that will pay off with power and flexibility in the long run. vim and emacs were two inspirations here. h…
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on “Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad”Muse does work with pointer support, either the trackpad on the Magic Keyboard ( https://www.apple.com/ipad-keyboards/ ) which you're probably referencing, or just hooking up any Bluetooth mouse. But you're correct that we have yet to add proper trackpad gesture support--I'll consider this a vote for that on our roadmap. (: A trackpad-driven mode can be nice when you're using it with a keyboard for a lot of text ent…
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on “Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad”Hey all, Muse cofounder here. I’ve been on Hacker News 13 years but this is my first Show HN. You might know me from YC08 and as Heroku cofounder and author of 12factor.net. Today my team and I are launching Muse, a thinking tool. Engineers sometimes talk about “typing problems” and “thinking problems”; Muse is for the latter. For example: designing a distributed system, doing a deep read of an algorithms paper, or…
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on “Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad”Something similar is being carried out by team at Muse.. https://museapp.com/memos/2022-09-linked-cards/
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on “Hyperlinks in Handwriting”Devon Zuegel is a great thinker in a large breath of subjects -> On Urbanism: Her podcast Order without Design [0] where she interviews the Bertaud couple Fields note on Miami [1] (with beautiful pictures) Metamuse interview on cities [2] and a lot more on her blog On tech : She was the PM for Github sponsors (and I believe other open-source friendly projects), great interview of her by the changelog [4] The Pioneer…
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on “Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing”I'll add to Wulf's note that we on the team are privacy-conscious, listen to us talk about it here: https://museapp.com/podcast/18-privacy/ We designed the architecture to allow full Signal-style e2ee, but given that there are only two engineers on this we had to cut scope on that for the first release. Now we'll be listening to what our customers ask for in terms of where to prioritize in the roadmap. We have quite…
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on “Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync”Thanks for the review. Agree with most of your points here, briefly: iPhone app is just capture right now, intended for "I just had this thought that I need to muse on later." We don't market it much because it's so limited. Future version will build on the sync infrastructure to offer better capture and ability to look up stuff on your boards. Board rename on Mac is a quick fix we squeezed in before launch. Will ma…
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on “Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync”A core concept is the idea that creative professionals live a multi-device life. Desktop computer for focused productivity, tablet for relaxed reading and thinking, phone for capture and lookup on the go. https://museapp.com/how/ipadmac/
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on “Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync”We do have a rudimentary search via OS integration already: https://museapp.com/handbook/ipad/#to-search But yes, this is due for improvement / upgrade and is on our roadmap.
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on “Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync”Totally agree on the data lock-out problem. Quoting from https://museapp.com/memos/2021-06-pricing/ > In an ideal world, a software subscription will let you pay just when you’re getting value from a product, and stop paying when you aren't getting value any more. In practice, many subscriptions feel bad because they are hard to cancel; or worse yet, they require you to pay forever to keep accessing the content you’…
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on “Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync”
