4 years today I made the first commit to SilverBullet:
Basically a single page that put CodeMirror (the our code editing component) on a page in markdown mode.
A couple of things happened since. 2.8k commits by 143 contributors, 1100 community members and 65 releases later, here we are! And not nearly done yet.
Here's the very first SilverBullet demo video (from July that year):
You can see a few of the basics already there, but a LOT has changed. No Live Preview. Queries were rendered inline in the page (and results written to disk), for instance.
I'm happy to be part of this great community and also happy to have a software like SilverBullet.
Let's hope we will have many more commits, releases, contributors, and many more users!
Congratulations 🎉. from an idea to a mature product is a long journey. I think it's not only about SB but also about you, I suppose that you learn a lot about yourself, how to manage an open source project, technical solutions...
The thing I'm surprised by regarding myself is that after 4 years I'm still not bored. I never stuck with anything this long, to be honest.
I've started various open source projects, some even succesful and similarly ambitious, but at some stage I'd always get bored and worked towards an exit. Somehow SilverBullet (while development hasn't always been consistent), keeps giving me new interesting ideas, insights, abstractions.
SB isn't perfect and it has its issues. Still, I think it's something I'm very proud of, and keep thinking: wow, this is really quite cool. Both useful, and technically impressive.
Congratulations @zef and great effort.
I've been searching for a note taking/knowledge management app for a while and I couldn't believe how exact SilverBullet matched my wants and needs.
I hope the project and the community continues to inspire you well into the future.
