Rinku, a to-do app for links that writes Markdown files

I’m fairly certain that most software should be open source. Over several decades I’ve developed the habit of starting projects that I strongly desire to be around for many years only to find them difficult to maintain and host securely and within a budget. For example, 14 years ago I built a personal side project called Nilai, a to-do app for bookmarks. My vision for that app, at the time, was to build something that would be around well into the future. So I decided to charge for it in the hopes that it would make just enough to justify keeping it online. But that didn’t pan out. Not only did Nilai fail to get enough users, but I soon started a company, hired a team, and we had other priorities that meant I had very little time to maintain the project. So I shut it down. A few years later, my team decided to dust off the idea of what Nilai was trying to accomplish (a to-do app for bookmarks) and we built Unmark and open sourced it from the beginning. I knew then that if we were…