https://athens-apps.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/athens-1.0.0-beta.19.dmg

Open-Source Networked Thought

- Notetaking app with bi-directional links and block references, which improves users' ability to create and retrieve associations.
- Particular focus on individuals and enterprises that desire security, privacy, and greater power over their data.

SF / SF or remote

Not impressive but fun, the first Lightning Network App: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-lightning-risky-maybe-ice-cream-will-tempt

No

No

- 1800 stars on GitHub
- 40 contributors
- 1800 followers on Twitter
- $10k/year in OpenCollective sponsorships
- Inception: March 31st, 2020.

7 months, entirely full-time

70

Increased when I wrote a post saying how Sponsors would be the first beta testers and get the newest updates first.

1. Interviewed at Roam, built Athens POC in a week. Open-source makes more sense for this product, and see huge opportunity for individuals and enterprises.
https://twitter.com/tangjeff0/status/1248060649344831488

2. Product expertise: developer and advocate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HXHk5C3bSc
https://twitter.com/tangjeff0/status/1184264669831163904?s=20
https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1180223213919338496?s=20

3. COSS expertise: Commercial OSS developer and speaker
https://youtu.be/TfulRP3cmXU
https://github.com/interledgerjs/ilp-plugin-mini-accounts/commits?author=tangjeff0
https://github.com/interledgerjs/ilp-plugin-btp/commits?author=tangjeff0
https://github.com/interledgerjs/ilp-connector/commits?author=tangjeff0

Athens delivers the same primitives as Roam, but gives users more security, privacy, and power over their application and data.

Long-term will out innovate Roam as well via open-source.

Roam and Notion.

Fear an open-source competitor more.

Just how critical open-source will be for innovation and value creation.

We currently support the project based on sponsorships of $10k/year.

We will provide a cloud-hosted SaaS.

The office software space is $80B market, and grows at a rate of ~$1B per year.

Notetaking is the first killer app. After dominating this niche, will create a suite of products that replace CRM, CMS, internal wiki, etc. to capture a large percentage of this market.

Serve C-Suite, consultants, investors insanely well. Rest of the organization will follow.

I do technical work on the product. We've had ~30 code contributors and ~5 design design contributors.

I learn 100x more from founders than anyone else.