Reflecting on the founding, growth and maturing of Overleaf

Super. Rather than taking rejection by YC as end-of-story they went on to success.<p>Remember when applying to YC and other batch based accelerators: you might not get in but in some cases that says more about the accelerator than it does about you and there are <i>plenty</i> of other roads to success.

Maybe it&#x27;s a tangent, but Overleaf is hands down one of my favorite services.<p>It follows UX designer, Bret Victor&#x27;s suggestion that creators need to be able to see what they&#x27;re creating. It also has a ton of convenient features like forking, auto-saves, and inviting people to edit through private links without requiring that your collaborators sign up for an account on Overleaf.<p>LaTex creates beautiful documents, but it was too difficult for me to use before Overleaf. Also, I only use the free version of Overleaf.<p>Thank you for creating Overleaf!

Overleaf is an amazing service that needs more exposure. Right off the bat it takes away the steep learning curve of setting up a local LaTex creator. The real time generation is actually a lot faster now too.

If they were accepted they might not have become the success they are. Programs like YC can put different types of pressures on a business.

Interesting read.<p>I&#x27;ve been using Overleaf almost every day for about a year (and absoultely love it!) and I am still not sure how it can be profitable :D

Browsing through their gallery of templates I found this lovely material CV&#x2F;resume<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.overleaf.com&#x2F;latex&#x2F;templates&#x2F;material-cv&#x2F;rnrnhvmfxyrw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.overleaf.com&#x2F;latex&#x2F;templates&#x2F;material-cv&#x2F;rnrnhvm...</a><p>Does it look very unprofessional or just slightly? I&#x27;m not actively looking but I like to have something up-to-date to send when people ask and this is tempting.

Overleaf just rocks.<p>One of the things I wish existed earlier. The new default for collaborative research paper writing.

After getting into YC, you can see the large amount of different companies and markets and products they try to reach, but for sure the one thing the all share is billions market size.<p>Also, they are always clear that not being accepted into YC should not be the end of the company and you can try later even with the same idea.

Overleaf&#x2F;ShareLateX are really great tools ...<p>However ... god I hate working with them if you have a lot of images that need to be compiled each time. It gets really really slow. That&#x27;s my only gripe with Overleaf&#x2F;ShareLaTex: the slow compiling.