AFFiNE - Docs, whiteboards, and databases together in one workspace

Hi Product Hunt🎉! This is Jc, founder of AFFiNE. Signup to AFFiNE today for 10% off for 1 year with PRODUCTHUNT24 We're super excited to introduce AFFiNE to this brilliant community! AFFiNE is an open-source, all-in-one workspace and an operating system for all the building blocks that assemble your knowledge base and much more -- wiki, knowledge management, presentation and digital assets. It's a better alternative to Notion and Miro. To Shape, not to adapt. Tools can impact your lifestyle. AFFiNE is built for individuals & teams who care about their data, who refuse vendor lock-in, and who want to have control over their essential tools. ✨ Some highlights of our technology advancements and features include: ✅ A true canvas for blocks in any form. Docs and whiteboard are now fully merged. Many editor apps claim to be a canvas for productivity, but AFFiNE is one of the very few which allows you to put any building block on an edgeless canvas -- rich text, sticky notes, any embedded web pages, multi-view databases, linked pages, shapes and even slides. We have it all. ✅ Magic multimodal AI partner ready to kick in any work Write up professional work report? Turn an outline into expressive and presentable slides? Summary an article into a well-structured mindmap? Sorting your job plan and backlog for tasks? Or....draw and code prototype apps and web pages directly all with one prompt? With you, AFFiNE AI pushes your creativity to the edge of your imagination. ✅ Local-first & Real-time collaborative We love the idea of local-first that you always own your data on your disk, in spite of the cloud. Furthermore, AFFiNE supports real-time sync and collaborations on web and cross-platform clients. ✅ Open-Source & Shape your own AFFiNE AFFiNE, along with our cloud services and all our infrastructure, is 100% open source. You have the freedom to manage, self-host, or even shape your own version of AFFiNE. With our upcoming plugin community and third-party blocks, we're building a platform that adapts to your unique needs. Imagine a workspace as customizable as your own digital lifestyle, where each tool and feature is specifically tailored to fit your unique workflow. You and your knowledge are unique, and your tools should be too. “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”. A lot of pioneers have inspired us along the way, e.g.: - Quip & Notion with their great concept of “everything is a block” - Trello with their Kanban - Airtable & Miro with their no-code programable datasheets - Miro & Whimiscal with their edgeless visual whiteboard - Remnote & Capacities with their object-based tag system There is a large overlap of their atomic “building blocks” between these apps. They are not open source, nor do they have a plugin system like Vscode for contributors to customize. We want to have something that contains all the features we love and also goes one step even further. Thanks for checking us out, we appreciate your interest and sincerely hope that AFFiNE resonates with you! 🎵 Checking https://affine.pro/ for more details ☀️!

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I have always been on a search for a notion alternative that I could use without internet or customize for my org’s need! This comes at the right time! Also really like this notion + canvas feature. Makes things just so much more intuitive!

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This is the best idea for a productivity app in a decade and it just keeps getting better and better. Discovering this wonderful free open source app a while ago made me really happy. I had a similar idea of an app that's a whiteboard where you can place things openly and creatively, but there is still structure to it if you want to. And Affine solves this perfectly. I cannot state enough how great this app is and I will include it in my stack for sure!

To be really honest, it sounds already great to me. I'm using Notion and Miro every day. I've been looking for such a product for a long time. So, I'm definitely going to try it. Best of luck on the launch, team ❤️🦄

I'm an R&D engineer at AFFiNE. What draws me to AFFiNE is its commitment to being open-source and local-first, meaning you can truly own your data without worrying about losing it or the service provider shutting down. It blends whiteboards and documents, freeing your work from being confined to a single format. Our goal is for you to manage and edit various types of documents—like mind maps, text documents, presentations, etc.—all within one software, eliminating the need to juggle content across multiple platforms. Moreover, we leverage generative AI to help you create whatever content you desire. All in all, AFFiNE is definitely worth a try.

This looks so cool! Seems like all planning meetings could get simpler. Will you be integrating there any other management tool in the future?

Heheh loved the connection between Notion and Miro! It looks amazing Jc. Really congrats on this impressive launch

Congratulations on the launch!