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You ever have an idea, play it out in your head, plan it a little, build a little towards it, and just not get anywhere with it and then someone release gitbook
by emehrkay 12y ago
You ever have an idea, play it out in your head, plan it a little, build a little towards it, and just not get anywhere with it and then someone release gitbook.com? Great stuff, after Apple released ibooks author a few years ago the gears started to turn in my head about a simplified publishing platform. I guess I didn't move faster/further with the idea because it eventually just felt like a blog or website authoring tool.
Was the editor pictured on this site available to download a few months back? I feel like I played with it, or something similar.
- AaronO 12y agoHi, Aaron from GitBook here. Thanks for the kind words! Yep, you might have seen the editor: https://www.gitbook.com/editor https://www.gitbook.com/editor (the older version is on GitHub: https://github.com/GitbookIO/editor https://github.com/GitbookIO/editor) I think the publishing/documentation/writing industries have yet to see the benefits of automation and better tooling. Writing should be simple and accessible. What we're trying to do is automate all the painful/boring parts so that writers can focus on what they do best: writing. I'm not surprised you had the same idea :) If you want to share your thoughts or talk, you can email me at: aaron AT gitbook DOT com And if you want to contribute to GitBook, our book format and toolchain is open source: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook