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Concurrent editing of documents is a $100B+ market
by jitl 5y ago
Concurrent editing of documents is a $100B+ market
- taeric 5y agoSo is videoconferencing. And somehow, all offerings are some version of garbage. :(
- lifeisstillgood 5y agoHow is that true? I accept we don't have the tools so no one actually works this way, but if I am say pair programming we don't literally edit at the same time - it's a you go, I go, you go situation - and that's the same way to do it. Even collaborative white boarding is "handing over the pen" - because we are not trying to teach the whiteboard our ideas, we are trying to teach each other - and one of us needs to be listening ..
- taeric 5y agoAmusingly, I just accepted the claim. This is largely the kind of thing that businesses pay for, so seems fairly easy for it to be inflated.
- jitl 5y agoExample products in this space you may have heard of: - Google Docs - Microsoft Office 365 - Figma - Quip - Notion (my employer)
- taeric 5y agoI think it is a stretch to claim all of those need concurrent editing. More, the best documents over seen in those have all largely been single threaded in editing. They have had review features that are decent. But... Best feedback I get is still typically verbal or otherwise out of band.
- tinodb 5y agoIs Notion using CRDTs?