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Show HN: 597 days of iterating
15 points by alexcabrera 13y ago|6 comments
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
It's like a less elegant version of Jade.
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
This would be awesome for Where's Waldo
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
That would be fantastic. As I said, root is very highly polished and you've done a great job. We have something in the pipeline that might make sense to collaborate on. Will shoot you an email to discuss.
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
This is really nice and a great way to rapidly build without resorting to templates or bootstrap. Highly polished, great work. We released something built on the same stack (jade, stylus, coffeescript) that's a bit more lightweight, more ge
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
Jekyll and Hyde are both awesome. I played around with Pelican a while ago, and it seemed solid. Droptype wasn't much more than that. It used Dropbox's then-new revised API to look at Dropbox/Apps/Droptype and then displayed any Markdown fi
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
I think it's important to have your core text editor - the thing that makes you a living - be something that you can take with you anywhere. You're pretty much looking at vim or emacs in this case. I think of HTML as an output format more t
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Text is Forever - A multi-platform approach to living a life in plain text(marquee.by)
16 points by alexcabrera 14y ago|5 comments
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
+1 for Chrome extension. I don't have a bookmark bar visible by default (too much chrome for Chrome).
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by alexcabrera 14y ago
Mou is the single best purpose-built Markdown editor I've ever used. I've tried all kinds of Markdown-centric workflows, but keep coming back to Mou. Split-screen editing and preview windows make all the difference, and Mou doesn't seem to
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Coffee, Process, and the Making of the Web(mrqe.co)
13 points by alexcabrera 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
Not just yet, we're waiting to roll out our theme engine before we feature anyone.
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Some quick responses: - You're absolutely right, we definitely need more error feedback. - We're planning on writing a Markdown tutorial on site and building a browser-based editor (based on Ace, most likely). Will
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
See my comment above. We've built and launched this at http://droptype.com . Would love to hear your thoughts.
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
We recently launched an app - http://droptype.com - that tries to do static site generation using Markdown files over Dropbox. It's still very much a proof-of-concept and we're retooling to make it a bit more full-featured; but the eventu
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
First, let me say I really appreciate the feedback. This really started as us trying to scratch an itch we've been having for a long time. We've always been of the opinion that plain text is how people should write, and so this is an atte
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
Thanks for your input. I'm glad to hear you find it useful. Our hope is that by having a pretty flexible data storage format (plain text), we can concern ourselves with laying out the content in an optimized manner for any device that might
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
The datasets is a really interesting concept. Maybe SQLite database support? It would need to be some sort of single file database. Then you just need to figure out how to run queries on that data. We want to do syncing of images, video, an
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
We're hoping to target technical writers from the onset as they'll be the ones most comfortable with plain text and formatting using Markdown. Hopefully we can then leverage that momentum to bring in other writers. Any other genres you can
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
Couldn't agree with you more. Right now we just built a feature that we see as core to the product. In terms of what we want to offer writers, it's: 1. Control over their own content. That's why we liked the idea of building on Dropbox and
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
Will do, thank you very much.
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
We're trying to build a platform that's more geared to long-form writers instead of people mainly aggregating content created by others. Services like Tumblr, Posterous, and Wordpress are focused more on real-time, constant updates. We're l
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What can we do better? YCW12 Reject: Droptype
10 points by alexcabrera 15y ago|15 comments
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by alexcabrera 15y ago
Do you have plans on providing hooks websites can use to access OS level stuff like Camera, Microphone, or Notification System?