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Stypi (YC S11) has been acquired by Salesforce
- tarr11 15y agoNot sure what this product offers over the (awesome) work done by ShareJS and ACE already. Looks like stypi is using both those products for it's core functionality http://sharejs.org/ http://sharejs.org/
- hn_anon_groups 15y agoCongrats to all the founders! First Etherpad and now Stypi, looks like this area is ripe for further disruption.
- igorsyl 15y agoHow is Stypi different from Etherpad?
- volaski 15y agoEtherpad got acquired by Google, Stypi got acquired by Salesforce.
- Jonanin 15y agobut how are the actual products different?...
- Danieru 15y agoNeed they be? Etherpad was good enough to get bought, clearly a product just like Etherpad would be of some value. Looks like Salesforce thought so.
- igorsyl 15y agoI believe Etherpad was open sourced. I suspect there are other reasons why Salesforce went ahead with the buyout. Perhaps licensing?
- chrisdroukas 15y agoTalent acquisition?
- tbundy 15y agoYep, got to be (congrats guys). Etherpad/ShareJS code is great, but limited without the brains to fully exploit the capabilities.
- igorsyl 15y agoInteresting. How about talking an existing product and reimplementing it? It would be different but not by design. I wonder whether this is a good strategy for a bootstrapped team.
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- typpo 15y agoStypi has support for code formatting and syntax highlighting, and lets you play back all your edits. To my knowledge etherpad did not have these features.
- dools 15y agoEtherpad had playback (there was some famous instance of Paul Graham recording his entire process of writing an article).
- Vekz 15y agoYou may be confused and thinking of this: http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html Which was Paul Graham using playback on Stypi
- reason 15y agoNo, it was actually EtherPad. The link to it obviously does not work, unfortunately.
- superchink 15y agoActually, via the link, you can see that pg was using Stypi (I too thought it was EtherPad…). The link from the post works: https://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences https://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences Edit: Okay, I was wrong. It was originally Etherpad: http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
- ananthrk 15y agoFWIW, here is the HN link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336
- rdl 15y agoWow, that was fast. (9 months?). Congratulations.
- dtran 15y agoCongrats Jason and Byron. Glad that the product will live on - Stypi is great for asking short coding questions during Skype/telephone interviews. Everyone I've interviewed using Stypi has said something positive about it.
- aberman 15y agoCongrats Jason and Byron. You guys deserve it. Salesforce is lucky to have you.
- randall 15y agoCongrats guys! Seriously awesome to see you acquired.
- bizodo 15y agoDo you mind if I ask how many users you has when acquired? How did you first come across sales force radar?
- espadagroup 15y agoHaha I love how the post before this acquisition post was "First Blog Post" from December: http://blog.stypi.com/ http://blog.stypi.com/
- espadagroup 15y agoHaha I love how the post before this acquisition post was "First Blog Post" from December: http://blog.stypi.com/ http://blog.stypi.com/
- olalonde 15y agoThis is clearly a talent acquisition.
- kingsidharth 15y agoSort of saddens me,these guys came to pick-up where Etherpad guys left and change the online writing. And after first release there was no major update.
- mvanveen 15y agoGreat. Now I'll never get my collaborative vim plugin :-(
- ricardobeat 15y agoAnd there goes OT collaborative editing back into the ether again...