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How is Stypi different from Etherpad?
by igorsyl 14y ago
How is Stypi different from Etherpad?
- volaski 14y agoEtherpad got acquired by Google, Stypi got acquired by Salesforce.
- Jonanin 14y agobut how are the actual products different?...
- Danieru 14y 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 14y agoI believe Etherpad was open sourced. I suspect there are other reasons why Salesforce went ahead with the buyout. Perhaps licensing?
- chrisdroukas 14y agoTalent acquisition?
- tbundy 14y agoYep, got to be (congrats guys). Etherpad/ShareJS code is great, but limited without the brains to fully exploit the capabilities.
- igorsyl 14y 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.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- typpo 14y 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 14y agoEtherpad had playback (there was some famous instance of Paul Graham recording his entire process of writing an article).
- Vekz 14y 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 14y agoNo, it was actually EtherPad. The link to it obviously does not work, unfortunately.
- superchink 14y 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 14y agoFWIW, here is the HN link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336