Show HN: Hollow – A Customizable Digital Workspace

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·January 31, 2025

The project is a modular, fully customizable digital workspace designed for those who want complete control over their tools. Instead of being locked into predefined workflows, it lets you create, style, and organize tools as cards that seamlessly integrate into your workspace.

- How the Project Works

    Tools - the app's core functionalities are it's tools, for example a notebook, kanban, webview...
    Limitless Customization - Styling the tools as i refer to each instance of it a 'card' is a another core feature, from minimalist setups to complex multi-card workflows.
    Plugin System - Extend functionality with plugins, making it adaptable to your needs, developer can use the app's api to make plugins/tools for the app.

- Why This Project?

Unlike traditional productivity apps, this project doesn’t force a specific structure. It’s an open-ended system where you build your own tools, layouts, and workflows instead of adapting to someone else’s design choices. Whether you need a note-taking space, a task manager, or something entirely unique, the project adapts to you.

- Check it out: https://github.com/hollow-app

Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or feedback!

Thanks a lot.

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abstractbeliefs

"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."

No open source, not selling me as a customer.

If you make your entire product about customisation, you're doing me a disservice to not let me adjust the code as suits my needs, asides from the ethical position on free software.

traverseda

>Hollow is intended to be driven by a community of developers, Whether you’re using the core tools or adding new ones through plugins, you’re part of a growing ecosystem of creativity and flexibility.

>"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."

It has to be real good before I'm willing to work for you for free. How much better are you than logseq, or even other closed source competitors like obsidian or roam research?

You want me to put my brain into this thing that I don't own?

>However, tools developed for Hollow will need to be open source to be approved as verified tools.

You want us to work for free, follow a specific license, but you're not willing to follow that license yourself? That borders on being disrespectful in my opinion.

rosseitsa

Hey, I downloaded and played around with the app a bit and it feels promising. It looks like obsidian in the sense of aspiring to be an "everything" app.

However, I am much more likely to use and contribute to the ecosystem of an app that is open source, in order to avoid a rug pull (relevant article https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-cast...).

I read in the website that it is not open source because it does not need to be, could you elaborate on this?

fimdomeio

On FF: Just to let you know when I enter the site it makes a request to: https://hollow-space.web.app/[object Object]

Also clicking explore does change the url to https://hollow-space.web.app/#0 but makes no visual difference. I have a feeling that quite a bit of the website is not working for me.

jph

Think about adding screenshots of people using it, or explainer videos, or before/after comparisons, etc.

You'll likely land more people if you can provide context. For example, is it kind of like Notion, or Airtable, or HyperCard, or Trello? Is there a specific kind of person, or role, or task that is an especially good match?

tabarnacle

Really interesting project! Could you share some screenshots or examples of how it works in practice?

postepowanieadm

https://hollow-space.web.app/

jitl

Your link takes me to a github org, is there a specific repo where the project itself lives?