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Show HN: Skypad – Simple and Sharable Real-Time Collaborative Notepad
- sifxtreme 9y agoHey this looks great! Does Skygear handle the synchronization logic? I built my own notepad a while ago too using ShareJS as the syncing library. (http://www.madpad.me/ http://www.madpad.me/) https://github.com/sifxtreme/madpad https://github.com/sifxtreme/madpad
- david90 9y agoIt handles both the saving logic and the pubsub logic. You can view the source in app.js . It took me around 2 hours for this quick project.
- wongarsu 9y agoIt looks like a clone of etherpad to demonstrate skygear. Is that about it, or am I missing something cool (except for the very nice visual design)?
- david90 9y agoThanks for the liking the visual. This is a quick hack in an hour to demonstrate how http://skygear.io http://skygear.io 's real-time sync and cloud database feature. Yet I am thinking to add more feature to it - markdown support and collaborator marks. Do you have any ideas on that?
- _joel 9y agoDoesn't work for me on Firefox (latest)
- the_common_man 9y agoVery nice. https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad is decent as well.
- athenot 9y agoOh nice! I didn't realize Hackpad's code got opensource after Dropbox shut it down. I really† liked Hackpad as a wiki for my team; it was a lot easier to jot down thoughts and better followed the spirit of a wiki (from "quick" in Hawaiian), than the so-called "wikis" we see nowadays that are just bad CMS tools... I'm looking at you, Confluence. †: enough to be a paying customer.
- the_common_man 9y agoThis is a fork of the Dropbox code as the original is not maintained by them anymore.
- maturz 9y agoThere is also https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
- pmontra 9y agoI wish GitHub used something like that to edit its wikis. Telling me somebody else saved a new version of the doc I'm working on is so uncool.
- the_common_man 9y agoPro tip: git clone the wiki and work on it locally. Easier to merge as well
- virgil_disgr4ce 9y agoAbsolutely—they should integrate this kind of workflow into the web UX :D
- oschn 9y agoNice tool. I like the simplicity in code and interface. We did implement real-time collaborative editing for Teamemo (https://teamemo.com https://teamemo.com) and the real challenge was to support rich text editing. Are there plans to support rich text?
- david90 9y agoNice one! It's a hack project for now - but I actually prefer Markdown support and collaborator indicator next.
- IRLIamOffline 9y agoLooks really good already. Think there actually is potential to target people for who Google Docs is too overloaded. Like the idea of supporting markdown. It might also be really useful to support syntax highlighting as I see one use-case for really quick and uncomplicated pair programming.
- david90 9y agoCode highlighting sounds really useful. Yet need to improve the collaboration before supporting pair programming perfectly.
- david90 9y agoA quick update - Skypad now supports code highlighting! See it live here: https://skygear-demo.github.io/skypad/#a4bdd786-a950-4be2-8845-b28c87e05956 https://skygear-demo.github.io/skypad/#a4bdd786-a950-4be2-88...