Preslav Rachev
preslav.me · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
Preslav Rachev, a software developer, writes about Go, Elixir, testing, and personal software and tools.
What HN saysHN commenters quote his post on how cheap building personal apps has become, and link his piece on Logseq and knowledge graphs.
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p5v · 2026-04-03
My best takeaway from this post:
> The friction of building personal apps has always been so high that as users we accepted the ads, the trackers, the dark patterns, and the constant upsells.
> The friction is just not there anymore. You can build a personal app that has the exact subset of features you want, that is clean, fast, and respects your privacy, in a matter of hours.
https://preslav.me/2026/04/03/the-friction-is-just-not-there-anymore/
tester457 · 2023-04-17
I think the recent popularity of Obsidian, Roam and Logseq has something to do with it.
People enjoy the power wikilinks have and love sharing their knowledge graphs[0].
[0] https://preslav.me/2022/09/01/logseq-come-for-the-graph-stay-for-the-j…
preslavrachev · 2020-05-05
Nice! Can I shamelessly add my own blog (https://preslav.me) into the mix?