Arturo.io

Productivity

book publishing generator

SHOW HN2014

13points
19comments
#1,546of 2,272 in 2014
Top 69%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Idea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Good idea, CI for books

    From 1 comment
  • Penflip author praised the work

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work. Similar projects are https://www.softcover.io/ and https://www.gitbook.io/. I'm in the same space with Penflip (https://www.penflip.com/), though I'm aiming to be more…
      guynamedloren on HN

Objections

  • Not open source

    From 1 comment
  • Rendering on Chrome for Android was poor

    From 1 comment
  • Paid private repos needed to justify cost over Leanpub

    From 1 comment
    • Leanpub does offer GitHub integration, including private Github account access. I am using it right now. And you can setup a commit hook to trigger the preview build…
      arafalov on HN

Requests

  • Bitbucket and third-party git support

    From 1 comment
    • Plans for Bitbucket/3rd party git support?
      nacs on HN
  • Open source the project

    From 1 comment
  • Example books to view

    From 1 comment
    • I'm actually writing a book now, and would love to use this. The first thing that pops into my mind is: are there any example books I can look at so I can see what this will look…
      rdegges on HN

Questions

  • Which Markdown flavor is used

    From 1 comment
    • While the idea is quite nice, there doesn't seem to be any indication as to what version of markdown is in use. Probably not Leanpub - given that there aren't any published…
      josegonzalez on HN
  • Differences from Leanpub GitHub integration

    From 1 comment
    • Leanpub does offer GitHub integration, including private Github account access. I am using it right now. And you can setup a commit hook to trigger the preview build…
      arafalov on HN

Alternatives named

  • Leanpub

    From 1 comment
    • Leanpub does offer GitHub integration, including private Github account access. I am using it right now. And you can setup a commit hook to trigger the preview build…
      arafalov on HN
  • Softcover

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work. Similar projects are https://www.softcover.io/ and https://www.gitbook.io/. I'm in the same space with Penflip (https://www.penflip.com/), though I'm aiming to be more…
      guynamedloren on HN
  • GitBook

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work. Similar projects are https://www.softcover.io/ and https://www.gitbook.io/. I'm in the same space with Penflip (https://www.penflip.com/), though I'm aiming to be more…
      guynamedloren on HN
  • Penflip

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work. Similar projects are https://www.softcover.io/ and https://www.gitbook.io/. I'm in the same space with Penflip (https://www.penflip.com/), though I'm aiming to be more…
      guynamedloren on HN

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