Thread by @roamhacker

1/ @Conaw thank you for giving Roam42 a try, its a work in progress.

I want to turn this around on you though & say we are really thankful to @RoamResearch for supporting community, giving us tools, encouragement & freedom to mod Roam. #roamcult

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1318145954189512706?s=20

2/ I became a believer the day you announced roam/js. For those not in development, it probably wasn't clear what signal this sent. I have used many tools, but never seen a company so genuinely engage with public & make such an early commitment to devs (that wasn't lip service).

3/ I don't know everyone in the Roam Research team, but have enjoyed all my interactions so far with the few I have met: @thepericulum, @MamanLunettes, @filipematossilv. Always helpful & supportive, never judging. A testimony of good things to come.

4/ Roam42 is built on great work of other visionaries: RoamToolkit by programming Titan @VladyslavSitalo, @treetopian (AVY mode), @ViktorTabori (templates). Ongoing inspiration:@dvargas92495, @shawnpmurphy8, @DharamKapila,@AbhayPrasanna,@calhistorian, @RobertHaisfield,@CatoMinor3

5/ And just imagine community is doing all this with "hacks". When the real API comes, our little universe is going to experience a big bang of innovations. Roam shouldn't have to build it all on their own, why would you when the community can help. Growth through collaboration.

6/ Reminds me of 90's when Microsoft introduced VBA to Office. You can knock VBA, but it revolutionized what companies & regular Joe's could do on the desktop, it was just that extra edge needed, to make Excel, word, etc. do things no one imagined. Roam is this trajectory.

7/ A powerful notetaking UI layered on a graph db (network databases for the masses). Then allowing companies & users to extend with customizations. (Your competitors don't get this yet). I lived that revolution once, and feel it happening again. Big potential for the future.

8/ Frankly, I enjoy Roam now, but can't wait to see what it is in 1 year, then 2 years and so on. I am here for at least 5 years :-)

getting off the soapbox ....