Mathcha
Dev tools
math editor
SHOW HN2017
358points
56comments
#47of 2,242 in 2017
Top 3%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
8 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 6 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Execution: 2 for, 4 againstIdea: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished product with good diagramming and drawing recognition
From 3 comments
hi, it looks like a very polished product. congrats on releasing.
tuananh on HNNice work. The drawing recognition feature seemed to work well. One little thing that could be improve is enforcing a minimum font size so that deeply nested fractions don't…
kevinb7 on HNThe diagramming tools look promising, great work! I never felt like I needed a WYSIWYG for Latex. But I deifnitely need a WYSIWYG for tikz[0]. For example, the tikz code for a…
dbranes on HN
Demo video explains the platform well
From 1 comment
That was one seriously impressive 3 min video. Explained everything you wanted to know about the platform without any audio needed either Im going to definitely try this out later
Kagerjay on HN
Objections
Does not work with non-QWERTY keyboard layouts since math mode cannot be entered with the backslash key
From 2 comments
This seems to be broken for keyboards without QWERTY layout (about half of Europe) because math mode can not be entered with the '\'-key.
johndough on HNI'm using international QWERTY and can't use it either.
sharigram on HN
Does not work properly in Microsoft Edge
From 1 comment
The website works well in Edge but you claimed that it does not support that. I have to override the user agent in order to access your editor.
be5invis on HN
Superscript input behaves unexpectedly without grouping
From 1 comment
This is really awesome, I'm going to be trying it out over the next few days. I'm by no means a Latex expert, but it seems like it could make writing Latex a bit faster and more…
edanm on HN
Requests
Export diagrams to TikZ code
From 2 comments
The diagramming tools look promising, great work! I never felt like I needed a WYSIWYG for Latex. But I deifnitely need a WYSIWYG for tikz[0]. For example, the tikz code for a…
dbranes on HNDefinitely adding this to my favourites, but I wonder if you could export those diagrams to latex using tikz?
lousken on HN
Mobile device support
From 1 comment
This looks really good. The main application I would have for this is online teaching, where previously I would have used WolframAlpha, so while this does not have computational…
rmbeard on HN
Native version with local data storage
From 1 comment
Looks nice. Would there be a native version, for which data are only stored locally? You would certainly have some professional market with that. I would pay for it just to…
jxy on HN
Vector image export
From 1 comment
The diagramming tools look promising, great work! I never felt like I needed a WYSIWYG for Latex. But I deifnitely need a WYSIWYG for tikz[0]. For example, the tikz code for a…
dbranes on HN
Questions
Is there a business model or open source plan
From 2 comments
Have you considered open sourcing and selling commercial licenses for integration? I think this is a product that many corporations would love to integrate with. However, as an…
bryanph_ on HNVery good point, did think about that, but until now still not very sure about business model. At the beginning, when we build it, we want to have a editor for people to easily…
buiducnha on HN
Why the same link was submitted again on HN
From 1 comment
Sometimes the HN algorithm baffles me. This article has already be submitted by the same person, a couple of days ago. I even asked a question there. How is it that the comments…
kensai on HN
Alternatives named
LyX
From 2 comments
Have you used LyX? https://www.lyx.org/
dorfsmay on HNto those who are looking for a WYSIWYG editor which supports latex, try LyX. It's good and intuitive enough that I have used it as a tool for thought, and prefer to work straight…
gabrielgoh on HN
TeXmacs
From 1 comment
Haven't used it in a while, but I think this public should also take a look at TeXmacs. I've long stopped caring about anything WYSIWYG but that software seemed to me to strike a…
jgtrosh on HN
Swift Calcs
From 1 comment
Seems very similar to Swift Calcs - https://www.swiftcalcs.com/home
samcat116 on HN
IPE
From 1 comment
> I deifnitely need a WYSIWYG for tikz I just use IPE. It's a nice GUI diagram editor that can save as PDF (as in, the PDF contains the IPE data). Far better than faffing around…
IshKebab on HN
Detexify
From 1 comment
Nothing here attracts me away from pure LaTeX that much except two things: (1) built-in symbol recognition (I still rely on http://detexify.kirelabs.org/symbols.html but it's…
jordigh on HN