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Yeah, many people asked this. Well, I think it's time to add a simple email/password registration. Come back in a few days! Thanks!

by marb 10y ago

brudgers 10y ago
For 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 ago
  Opensourcing 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 ago
    But 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.
    - marb 10y ago
      Speaking about collaboration, most Linux epoch tools don't have a real collaboration and only synchronize files. Current web apps are much more oriented to conflict-free synchronization. Markdown Tree also is. Now if you can format branches in Markdown, drag & drop images and other files, keep documentation, study notes, code examples and simultaneously write information with a few more colleagues - that's quite useful I think. Next version of Markdown Tree should support various embeds like: Youtube, codepen.io, Google maps, etc. That would allow to have a nice workspace for various kinds of tasks. And only web apps are capable of it too.
      - brudgers 10y ago
        When someone does all those things, what are they making? That is what is the artifact or useful work? For example, a single Emacs org-file can produce calendar entries, a web page, source code files and/or administer a server. It makes stuff that is useful outside of org-mode or Emacs. In a sense, it captures one of the *nix principles of outputting to conventional interfaces...it makes things rather than being an end in itself. If it had collaboration, people might use it to collaborate on writing a program or a web-page.

Yeah, many people asked this. Well, I think it's time to add a simple email/password registration. Come back in a few days! Thanks!

by marb 10y ago

Yeah, 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 ago

For 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 ago
Opensourcing 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 ago
  But 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.
  - marb 10y ago
    Speaking about collaboration, most Linux epoch tools don't have a real collaboration and only synchronize files. Current web apps are much more oriented to conflict-free synchronization. Markdown Tree also is. Now if you can format branches in Markdown, drag & drop images and other files, keep documentation, study notes, code examples and simultaneously write information with a few more colleagues - that's quite useful I think. Next version of Markdown Tree should support various embeds like: Youtube, codepen.io, Google maps, etc. That would allow to have a nice workspace for various kinds of tasks. And only web apps are capable of it too.
    - brudgers 10y ago
      When someone does all those things, what are they making? That is what is the artifact or useful work? For example, a single Emacs org-file can produce calendar entries, a web page, source code files and/or administer a server. It makes stuff that is useful outside of org-mode or Emacs. In a sense, it captures one of the *nix principles of outputting to conventional interfaces...it makes things rather than being an end in itself. If it had collaboration, people might use it to collaborate on writing a program or a web-page.