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I'd love to see the pitch Stypi gave to get accepted into YC. It looks like a great product - but I'd be interested to know what market of users Stypi will be m
by ajessup 15y ago
I'd love to see the pitch Stypi gave to get accepted into YC. It looks like a great product - but I'd be interested to know what market of users Stypi will be making happy that aren't already serviced by Google Docs, etherpad, Apache Wave etc.
- felipemnoa 15y agoIt would be awesome if they could incorporate something like this into an IDE, specially Eclipse. I know I would use it.
- dextorious 15y agoSo their market is a free IDE?
- ajessup 15y agoOne would assume that since they got accepted into YC that they had a pretty good hypothesis of what their target market could be. But it's not clear from their website what it is (and it doesn't look like it's an IDE). The OT technology that powers stuff like this is interesting but is being rapidly commoditized by JS libraries (check out the awesome ShareJS http://sharejs.org/ http://sharejs.org/ for an example). So what makes these guys interesting hopefully isn't the tech itself, but the market they want to bring it to.
- ajessup 15y agoHow would you use it in an IDE? For pair programming? Certainly can't imagine it would replace source control - it would be incredibly frustrating having other devs break your codebase all the time, you'd be debugging all their mistakes as well as yours, and as a team we'd be disincentives from making any big changes since it would halt anyone else's work while the change is being worked on. There's a reason we create abstractions like commits and branches, and don't all just work from a share drive.
- felipemnoa 15y agoI would use it mainly as a historical archive. To "see" a program evolve. I think that is a very interesting use case, even if limited.
- ilaksh 15y agoI believe the Cloud 9 IDE uses basically the same engine (Ace) as Etherpad.
- ilaksh 15y agoIt looks like they took Etherpad and added exactly one feature showing deletions in yellow. Our team started with Etherpad, added a real-time collaborative grid similar to Google Spreadsheets, multiple tabs, integrated full-text Lucene search (indexed immediately), spellcheck, file browser, permissions system, automated time estimates, element insertion, a special script print format, and teleprompter output. I guess I am jealous that we never got interviewed by a hot chick in a fancy high-rise. Anyway I am wondering, did they use the regular Java/appjet Etherpad, or is it based on the node.js Etherpad Lite? Also Google Wave wasn't really about collaborative text editing. It was more about a generic framework for developers that used operational transforms to enable collaborative manipulation of all types of content or objects. But people didn't get that.
- skmurphy 15y agoPlease post a link to your service it sounds very interesting: I would like to use it.
- ilaksh 15y agoActually its an intranet application that may end up only being installed in one location. There is also a chance that the AP could adopt it (if they are smart) to replace their old-fashioned ENPS (electronic news production) system but I don't know if that has any likelihood.
- skmurphy 15y ago"There is also a chance that the AP could adopt it (if they are smart)" It's a temptation to think of your application as an IQ test: "they will adopt it if they are smart. But if they don't adopt it I would revisit your presentation and demo before chalking it up to their lack of intelligence.
- pg 15y agoThey applied to do something different. I forget what. They switched to this idea halfway through YC.