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Show HN: Collaborative Markdown Trees – write Markdown blocks in a tree
- stephenr 10y agoA description/demo might help sell this better than a static image. I love markdown but I'm not sure I understand what a "markdown tree" is supposed to be?
- marb 10y agoThanks for the advice! We thought it should be quite clear from the the image what it does. But probably you are right. We should make an animated gif.
- brudgers 10y agoIt would be better if there was something to try out or play with because that is the spirit of 'Show HN'.
- stephenr 10y agoCan you explain what you might use it for? It may just be me, it's 10pm and I've only had 2 coffees today.
- marb 10y agoIt could be useful for study notes, programming notes (and code), project planning. It's like a simple Markdown text, but you can nest one Markdown text block to another. You can fold branches you don't need now.
- brudgers 10y agoIt's an interesting idea. But because we just met, I don't want to provide my Google identity just to learn more. Is there a demo that does not require my identity?
- marb 10y agoYeah, many people asked this. Well, I think it's time to add a simple email/password registration. Come back in a few days! Thanks!
- brudgers 10y agoFor a 'Show HN', no registration is better for me because I'm just going to put in a fake address and a guessable password anyway...if I bother to provide anything at all. I'd put it this way, 'Show HN' is a good potential way to get feedback on the implementation and idea for the purpose of improving the project/product. There's a lot of expertise here. On the other hand, for most projects it is probably about average in terms of garnering emails and page views. PR and marketing aren't going to do better. Finally, in terms of the project, it looks like something I'd expect to see as open source rather than a product/company. It's cool and potentially useful and if it were rolled into an IDE or an editor it could be a great feature. But it's harder to see how much I would gain by a business commitment. Collaboration means convincing other people to try it, hoping they find it useful, and then learning how to coordinate use.
- marb 10y agoOpensourcing could be an option in future. For now, we would like to see how people adapt it to their needs. Because it's quite untraditional tool.
- brudgers 10y agoBut for the collaboration part, it reminds me of Emacs org-mode (which uses a different markup language than MarkDown). Being open source, org-mode might be worth looking at because there is a well-established community of users and a tool that does a lot but does not have strong interactive collaboration. On the other hand, feature parity with org-mode would be non-trivial. There might be a Github like business model there: a business that improves upon an existing tool and grows by expanding the market.