[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":488},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-7276263":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":47,"post_text":48,"what":49,"said":103,"maker_in_thread":221,"shape":233,"grid":236,"attempts":449,"same_week":450,"maker_shows":18,"maker_hidden":480,"reader_version":481,"card":482},"7276263","ShareLaTeX","We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX","title","Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fsharelatex\u002Fsharelatex","github.com","jpallen",1392978679,2014,276,79,55,2272,3,"legend","productivity","collaborative latex editor","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"latex","collaborative editor","online latex","open source latex","loved",0.512,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":18},31,22,4,60,{"idea":36,"execution":39,"design":41,"performance":44,"pricing":45,"privacy":46},{"positive":37,"critical":38},11,0,{"positive":40,"critical":38},5,{"positive":42,"critical":43},2,1,{"positive":38,"critical":42},{"positive":38,"critical":38},{"positive":43,"critical":38},[40,18,40,40,40,18,40,40,18,38,43,18,18,18,18,38,40,18,18,18,40,18,18,40,40,40,18,40,40,40,40,40,40,43,40,40,40,18,40,40],null,{"problem":50,"audience":66,"pricing":81,"motivation":92,"time_to_build":48,"stack":99,"openness":100,"stage":101,"team_size":102},{"value":51,"source":52,"evidence":53},"Writing LaTeX documents needs a local install and is hard to collaborate on","commenter",[54,58,62],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"7277829","grittathh","Thank you for open-sourcing this! At the moment I'm using sharelatex to keep a version of all my equations \"alive\" since every time someone tries to resave my word documents, the…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"7277892","hootener","> Word's comment and review tracking system is more intuitive. This. The first person that makes a LaTeX comment and track changes system as intuitive as Word's can have all my…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"7276445","adsche","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. I…",{"value":67,"source":52,"evidence":68},"Students, academics and collaborators writing LaTeX documents",[69,73,77],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"7276679","kriro","This looks excellent. I'll certainly try it for my next paper and will see if I can lobby our university to pay for the hosted version. I'm assuming universities are what you are…",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"7278385","imroot","I'm really excited by this. I've been a big fan of ShareLaTeX and teach a LaTeX class at my local Hackerspace for EE\u002FCE students at the Universities near Cincinnati and I always…",{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"7277244","phireph0x","I used ScribTex for my dissertation and have used ShareLaTeX for papers as well. Both were\u002Fare great services backed by a great team. Having experienced the pain in configuring…",{"value":82,"source":52,"evidence":83},"Hosted service is paid; code is AGPL",[84,88],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"7278367","jordigh","Ooh, neat, AGPL! Are you planning to sell exceptions?",{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"7277675","silveira","I'm a big fan of ShareLaTex, I'm always showing it to friends. It was very useful for me during my studies. I'm extremely happy knowing it is now under the GPL Affero license.",{"value":93,"source":94,"evidence":95},"Benefited from open source and wanted to give back; enables on-site installs","maker",[96],{"id":97,"by":11,"text":98},"7276363","Basically, we wanted to! We've benefited hugely from open source projects ourselves, and have always enjoyed being part of the community surrounding them. It seems like the…",[],"open_source","launched","team",{"praise":104,"objections":136,"requests":160,"questions":178,"alternatives":197},[105,114,125],{"value":106,"source":52,"evidence":107},"Easy to use, no local LaTeX install needed",[108,109,113],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"7277677","shrikrishna","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…",{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},{"value":115,"source":52,"evidence":116},"Good for collaboration without learning git",[117,121],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"7276486","beejiu","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…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"7276962","yrochat","Congratulations James & Henri! I'm very happy that my lab has been financially contributing to your work for nearly a year :-) Anyway, I'm currently writing my thesis and I've…",{"value":126,"source":52,"evidence":127},"Open sourcing builds trust",[128,132],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"7277214","geekam","Kudos! Having your source available and ability to peek into it gives me more confidence in your service and I'd rather use that. Thank you for doing this.",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"7276923","onalark","This is incredible news! Congratulations, and thanks so much for contributing back",[137,141,152],{"value":138,"source":52,"evidence":139},"Dropbox sync is unreliable across computers",[140],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"value":142,"source":52,"evidence":143},"Slow auto-compilation on long documents",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"7277227","RA_Fisher","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. Also they don't have Git…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"7277101","cliveowen","writeLatex.com offers a live preview and it's faster overall. I really hoped this would be a better alternative because I'm already a bit disappointed in writeLatex.com's…",{"value":153,"source":52,"evidence":154},"No git integration",[155,156],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"7280752","xanth","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…",[161,169,174],{"value":162,"source":52,"evidence":163},"GitHub integration",[164,165],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"7277837","pseut","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…",{"value":170,"source":52,"evidence":171},"Track changes and comment system like Word",[172,173],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":175,"source":52,"evidence":176},"Instant Dropbox synchronisation",[177],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},[179,190],{"value":180,"source":52,"evidence":181},"Will open sourcing affect revenue?",[182,186],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"7276570","theallan","I (and I suspect many others here) would be very interested to know what effect this will have on your turnover. I guess you will get some increased revenue as others have…",{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"7276839","bookworm101","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…",{"value":191,"source":52,"evidence":192},"Is there a consistent way to convert LaTeX to HTML?",[193],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"7276586","mrcactu5","is there any consistent way to turn LaTeX into HTML?",[198,207,214],{"value":199,"source":52,"evidence":200},"writeLatex (ScribTex)",[201,202,203],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"7276615","leoedin","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…",{"value":208,"source":52,"evidence":209},"flylatex",[210],{"id":211,"by":212,"text":213},"7277657","blueblob","Thank you so much! I wanted to use this initially but my advisor didn't agree with storing unpublished papers on another server than the localhost\u002Four servers. As a result I was…",{"value":215,"source":52,"evidence":216},"Local LaTeX install with git",[217],{"id":218,"by":219,"text":220},"7276719","kaybe","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…",{"comments":222,"answered":40,"key":223},12,[224,227,230],{"id":225,"text":226},"7276301","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.",{"id":228,"text":229},"7277108","We'd love to start pushing forward on some reference manager integrations, so a pull request would be amazing! It might be best to have a quick chat about how to implement this.…",{"id":231,"text":232},"7277121","I've put this on our template todo list, thanks!",{"commenters":16,"max_depth":40,"maker_replies":222,"first_comment_mins":234,"lifespan_hours":235},14,94,[237,241,245,249,253,256,257,261,264,267,269,271,274,276,278,279,281,284,288,290,292,294,298,301,303,306,310,312,314,316,318,321,324,325,329,331,333,335,338,341,345,347,350,353,356,358,362,363,364,366,367,371,373,375,379,381,383,385,387,389,390,393,398,400,403,407,409,411,415,418,421,423,427,430,432,434,437,441,445],[238,38,40,239,240,38],"7276476","project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea","primitivesuave",[242,38,18,243,244,38],"7276549","maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","beck5",[246,38,18,247,248,38],"7296263","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","jancborchardt",[250,38,40,251,252,38],"7276648","project\u002Fpositive\u002Fexecution","onli",[254,38,18,243,255,38],"7276861","ivanca",[225,43,38,243,11,43],[258,43,40,259,260,38],"7276327","project\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone","mlevy",[262,43,40,251,263,38],"7276590","infruset",[265,43,18,247,266,38],"7277658","subdane",[268,43,18,247,263,38],"7278339",[270,43,18,243,266,38],"7282962",[272,43,40,239,273,38],"7277094","gjuggler",[228,43,38,275,11,43],"maker\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[277,43,40,239,60,38],"7277096",[231,43,38,243,11,43],[280,43,18,243,60,38],"7277425",[282,43,18,243,283,38],"7277563","FraaJad",[285,43,38,286,287,38],"7277636","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","thearn4",[289,43,38,286,60,38],"7277880",[55,42,18,291,56,38],"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fdesign",[59,42,43,293,60,38],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fdesign",[295,42,18,296,297,38],"7281203","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea","alxndr",[299,42,18,300,60,38],"7291608","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign",[302,42,18,296,297,38],"7292037",[304,42,38,305,11,43],"7281589","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fexecution",[307,18,18,308,309,38],"7277211","project\u002Fmixed\u002Fidea","einhverfr",[311,18,38,251,11,43],"7277223",[313,18,40,259,309,38],"7280758",[145,33,43,315,146,38],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fperformance",[317,33,38,286,167,38],"7277828",[319,33,38,286,320,38],"7277851","anonymouz",[322,33,38,323,146,38],"7279840","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[63,40,40,251,64,38],[326,327,18,243,328,38],"7276344",6,"jtreanor",[97,327,38,330,11,43],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[183,327,18,332,184,38],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[334,327,38,332,11,43],"7276833",[336,327,18,243,337,38],"7282593","craftsman",[339,327,18,243,340,38],"7276571","NicoJuicy",[342,343,40,259,344,38],"7281452",7,"malnourish",[70,346,18,296,71,38],8,[348,346,38,286,349,38],"7280113","greglindahl",[166,351,18,352,167,38],9,"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fexecution",[354,351,18,355,244,38],"7279673","maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution",[357,351,18,296,167,38],"7280732",[359,360,40,239,361,38],"7276700",10,"benjamta",[118,37,40,239,119,38],[110,222,40,259,111,38],[74,365,40,239,75,38],13,[89,234,40,259,90,38],[368,369,40,275,370,38],"7276333",15,"sauravt",[122,372,18,352,123,38],16,[374,372,38,355,11,43],"7277006",[376,377,40,239,378,38],"7278495",17,"stevejb",[187,380,18,243,188,38],18,[382,380,38,332,11,43],"7276904",[78,384,40,259,79,38],19,[211,386,40,259,212,38],20,[204,388,40,259,205,38],21,[157,32,18,247,158,38],[218,391,40,392,219,38],23,"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fdesign",[394,395,40,396,397,38],"7279288",24,"maker\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea","habosa",[133,399,40,396,134,38],25,[129,401,40,402,130,38],26,"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fprivacy",[404,405,40,251,406,38],"7276731",27,"newsoundwave",[149,408,43,315,150,38],28,[410,408,38,243,11,43],"7277116",[412,413,40,251,414,38],"7276727",29,"cies",[416,417,40,239,287,38],"7277027",30,[419,31,40,392,420,38],"7276818","brickcap",[422,31,38,243,11,43],"7276856",[424,425,40,239,426,38],"7277206",32,"huherto",[85,428,18,429,86,38],33,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[194,431,18,296,195,38],34,[433,431,38,296,11,43],"7276593",[435,431,38,286,436,38],"7277105","StevenXC",[438,439,40,259,440,38],"7276492",35,"antonydenyer",[442,443,40,259,444,38],"7276671",36,"jre",[446,447,40,259,448,38],"7284174",37,"avaku",[],[451,456,461,466,470,475],{"id":452,"name":453,"points":454,"category":455},"7298195","Formspree",233,"web_saas",{"id":457,"name":458,"points":459,"category":460},"7282934","Google Music for Mac",193,"consumer_social",{"id":462,"name":463,"points":464,"category":465},"7279412","freetuner",134,"creative",{"id":467,"name":468,"points":469,"category":455},"7277326","Selfie Ticket",131,{"id":471,"name":472,"points":473,"category":474},"7282164","gotofail.com",118,"security_privacy",{"id":476,"name":477,"points":478,"category":479},"7268079","ThreesJS",81,"games",false,"v2",{"id":483,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":480,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":28,"s":484,"top":18,"kw":485,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":38,"strip":486,"url":9,"mix":487,"praise":106,"objection":138,"sub":21},7276263,0.51,[24,25,26,27],"5355535530133330533353355535555551555355",[31,32,33,18],1793990903083]