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Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX

276 点作者 jpallen超过 11 年前

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primitivesuave大约 11 年前
You're doing a great thing by making your platform open source. Even though you make it incredibly easy to get set up with a well written readme, I'd much rather purchase this service because it's not expensive and I know I'm supporting good people that care about contributing to the open source community. Plus, your product is awesome.
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jpallen超过 11 年前
James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any questions.
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grittathh大约 11 年前
Thank you for open-sourcing this! At the moment I&#x27;m using sharelatex to keep a version of all my equations &quot;alive&quot; since every time someone tries to resave my word documents, the equations become rendered to images.<p>Unfortunately for me, Latex hasn&#x27;t gained traction in our department. I think the main barriers to entry, for our lab at least, are:<p>1) Local installation is more difficult than installing Word. Sharelatex and other cloud-latex solutions solve this.<p>2) Word&#x27;s comment and review tracking system is more intuitive. If you&#x27;re reading a document electronically and want to insert a comment or make an edit in word, you just do it right there. With latex, you can use synclatex to go back and forth but this extra step is actually a non-insignificant barrier. Also, with latex, is there a way to make and see comments in the pdf&#x2F;preview but have the comment also live somewhere in the source, AND have the comments be editable in both places? I suspect the answer is yes, but I just haven&#x27;t found the right tool?<p>I haven&#x27;t unlocked the &quot;history&quot; feature in sharelatex but does it come close to this?
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einhverfr大约 11 年前
It&#x27;s really great to see perpetual interest in collaboration on LaTeX documents. I hope you have great success (not sure I have a use for it now but will keep you in mind if I ever do). I also expect to recommend it.<p>Unfortunately a lot of my own documents are really hard to handle with editors -- I tend to write very long documents split across multiple source documents in a tree for easy management. I wonder if there is room in an offering like this for something more like an online IDE rather than just a editor for a singular file.
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RA_Fisher大约 11 年前
My wife started out with www.writelatex.com to write her dissertation. The auto-compilation really slows down once you get beyond 30 or so pages.<p>Also they don&#x27;t have Git integration either, which was a deal breaker for my wife.<p>She&#x27;s since moved to using RStudio locally + Git.<p>She says, &quot;If you have Git integration, the auto-compilation feature would get me back from RStudio.&quot;<p>We&#x27;ve also thought about using Grunt to build our own auto-compilation feature.
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adsche大约 11 年前
Awesome! I happened to stumble upon ShareLaTeX just a couple of days ago, when I needed a CV and had no LaTeX installation available due to my personal laptop being broken.<p>I found it easy to get started, fast and overall a pleasure to use. :)
jtreanor超过 11 年前
This is really great. Thank you! What made you decide to open source it?
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malnourish大约 11 年前
I use ShareLaTeX for all of my computer science and mathematics homework and I convinced many of my peers to as well. Thank you for the excellent product. When I saw the email in my inbox earlier today I was shocked, but I am glad that you have reached this decision.
kriro大约 11 年前
This looks excellent. I&#x27;ll certainly try it for my next paper and will see if I can lobby our university to pay for the hosted version.<p>I&#x27;m assuming universities are what you are aiming for? I think you should focus on CSy departments.<p>Could also target conferences&#x2F;journals i.e. allow them to offer access to the hosted version for people collaborating on a paper for that journal&#x2F;conference.<p>From a business development POV, I think it would make sense to wade through university pages and collect departments that offer Latex-Templates to their students as potential contacts.
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pseut大约 11 年前
Just tested this out with a 150 page document split across several folders; it compiled quickly and I really like the way you display the logs and warnings. Looks great! And I really appreciate your making it opensource.<p>Integrating this with github a la travis-ci would be great, obviously one would need to be able to make commits to the repository too; I&#x27;m not sure if it would be great enough that it would induce people to start paying for the service if they weren&#x27;t already, though... although I&#x27;d sure like it.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what sort of use-cases you are seeing already, but this seems most useful to me personally for last-minute edits to coauthored papers &amp; grant proposals right before submission. Nailing down the final version can be a real pain in the ass.<p>A few other minor observations:<p>* uploading a zip file didn&#x27;t work, but I&#x27;m on an old version of RHEL and made the zip with Ark, so... who knows<p>* after accidentally drag and dropping a bunch of .bbl, .log, .toc (etc) files, I didn&#x27;t see a way to delete more than one file at a time, or how to undo a file deletion.<p>* I also couldn&#x27;t figure out how to move a file from a subdirectory to the top level directory
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benjamta大约 11 年前
A fantastic move! I&#x27;ve been using ShareLaTeX for quite some time, it&#x27;s a great service. This move to open source really shows you&#x27;re pushing your product in the right direction. Thanks :)
beejiu大约 11 年前
This is awesome. A group of us used this to write a project for University a couple of years ago. It certainly made collaboration a lot easier, without everyone learning how to use git, for example.
shrikrishna大约 11 年前
I used your product to write my resume, and could finish it without having to learn latex top-to-bottom. Really an amazing product guys. Wish you all the best and hope you achieve great success!
imroot大约 11 年前
I&#x27;m really excited by this. I&#x27;ve been a big fan of ShareLaTeX and teach a LaTeX class at my local Hackerspace for EE&#x2F;CE students at the Universities near Cincinnati and I always use ShareLaTeX in our class as an easy way of getting started without needing to install TeXLive on your system. This allows me to run our own version of the service at the Hackerspace -- nothing sucks more than trying to teach an online class when 25 Engineering-heavy students are using the 5M Down Internet connection...
silveira大约 11 年前
I&#x27;m a big fan of ShareLaTex, I&#x27;m always showing it to friends. It was very useful for me during my studies. I&#x27;m extremely happy knowing it is now under the GPL Affero license.
sauravt超过 11 年前
This is awesome, really appreciate you guys open sourcing this app.
yrochat大约 11 年前
Congratulations James &amp; Henri! I&#x27;m very happy that my lab has been financially contributing to your work for nearly a year :-)<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m currently writing my thesis and I&#x27;ve had to stop using your product. The dropbox sync is lame (I know that the problem is on their side) and working on three different computers (usually two at the same time) is a problem. But in case of collective writing, then shareLaTeX is the most useful tool. Thank you for that and for your move!
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stevejb大约 11 年前
This is fantastic! I am planning on showing this to my undergraduate students, because 1) it will help them be more professional in the long run, and 2) I am incredibly sick of trying to read their handwriting and inconsistent documents.<p>I am wondering, what would be the best way to have students create accounts and have their accounts be populated with templates for all of the homework assignments?<p>I am really excited by this announcement. I hope that it leads to even more success!
bookworm101大约 11 年前
Well, i have been working on something similar for a little while, what is the biggest challenge when getting started with this type of SAAS? what do you wish you knew when you were getting up and running? Would you recommend anyone to try out the same venture you guys have done? Is there some worry about what this might do to revenue? or was there already some evidence this would do nothing evil to your business model?
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phireph0x大约 11 年前
I used ScribTex for my dissertation and have used ShareLaTeX for papers as well. Both were&#x2F;are great services backed by a great team. Having experienced the pain in configuring and maintaining a local LaTeX installation in the past, it was a pleasure to have a web-based version that was backed by git.<p>I&#x27;m glad to read that the code behind ShareLaTeX is being released as open source!
blueblob大约 11 年前
Thank you so much! I wanted to use this initially but my advisor didn&#x27;t agree with storing unpublished papers on another server than the localhost&#x2F;our servers. As a result I was using flylatex[1] which is nice but not as mature as this. Now I can give this a try!<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/alabid/flylatex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alabid&#x2F;flylatex</a>
leoedin大约 11 年前
Brilliant! I used ScribTex (which I believe has now merged into ShareLaTex) a few years ago for my dissertation and it was brilliant! So much easier than maintaining a local LaTeX installation, plus being computer agnostic when working on my disseration was a huge bonus.
xanth大约 11 年前
I have been meaning to use LayTeX for my assessment and now that my second year of university is rapidly approaching this product looks perfect. I would love to use this but github intergeneration is a must for collaboration. What is the time frame for git integration?
kaybe大约 11 年前
Our method of choice is local latex installatons + git, but this certainly looks interesting. It might be a good alternative if a less tech-savy member joins the group since it looks as if it was better for teaching and assisting people.
habosa大约 11 年前
This is great. ShareLatex is an excellent service and they are always improving. They&#x27;re the only company I can think of that sends useful, interesting emails that are for my benefit and not just theirs. Keep up the good work!
onalark大约 11 年前
This is incredible news! Congratulations, and thanks so much for contributing back
geekam大约 11 年前
Kudos! Having your source available and ability to peek into it gives me more confidence in your service and I&#x27;d rather use that. Thank you for doing this.
newsoundwave大约 11 年前
I&#x27;ve been using this for my Senior Design project&#x27;s docs, and so far I have had no issues.<p>Thanks for open sourcing!
cliveowen大约 11 年前
writeLatex.com offers a live preview and it&#x27;s faster overall. I really hoped this would be a better alternative because I&#x27;m already a bit disappointed in writeLatex.com&#x27;s performance.<p>An online version of Latex sure beats the hell out of setting up a local installation though.
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cies大约 11 年前
I love the service! I&#x27;ve used it for several documents so far; with great success.<p>Thanks for opensourcing!
thearn4大约 11 年前
Thanks for open sourcing! Looks like a pretty great concept, best of luck to you guys.
brickcap大约 11 年前
Share latex.....<p>Open source.....<p>I will just come out and say it. I had funny thoughts in my head when I read that.<p>The official site as well as the products looks well designed (love the idea of templates). Here is the clickable link<p><a href="https://www.sharelatex.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sharelatex.com&#x2F;</a>
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huherto大约 11 年前
Awsome! I almost want to learn LaTex. Perhaps this is the push I need.
jordigh大约 11 年前
Ooh, neat, AGPL! Are you planning to sell exceptions?
mrcactu5大约 11 年前
is there any consistent way to turn LaTeX into HTML?
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antonydenyer大约 11 年前
This is awesome
jre大约 11 年前
This is awesome
avaku大约 11 年前
I love it!