aswinmohanme

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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   I have a love and hate relationship with this stack. On one hand it makes sense to do everything in SQL and generate the data access patterns from it. On the other hand pushing business logic into the database has it's disadvantages -
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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   Couldn't access Notion, so came to check HN, and boom here is the answer.
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   Covid Policy Analysis(sheer.tj)

   9 points by aswinmohanme 5y ago|0 comments
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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   Thanks for the support :D I really liked your detailed write up on the publishing chain you have used, code is just text in it's essence and because of that programmers have access to superior tools for it's manipulation. But that
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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   That is already implemented. Still there might be race conditions with the current implementation, didn't wanted anyone to lose any data. It's frustrating as hell to rewrite something from memory.
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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   Thanks for the support! I still haven't decided on what input format I should be using, most authors are familiar with a WYSIWYG style editor, but technical authors are more inclined to markdown like formats. Authors are more inclined
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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   It's Cloudprinter - https://www.cloudprinter.com/
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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   Thanks, the platform and the output looks dope. I haven't gotten to the LaTeX part yet, will ping you once I run into issues.
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   by aswinmohanme 5y ago

   Hey, like I said, it's just the first preview version of the platform. Even though the editor auto saves every 200ms to the server, there is no local caching. So even if we lose data, it's going to be a couple words. But still it&
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Yeah, the good kind of problems to have. Fixed it and it's back up. Setting up a status page for so this doesn't happen again. Edit: It's live at https://status.indiepaper.me/
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Yes, I meant beautifully formatted e-books and printed books.
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Yes, this is precisely the problem we're trying to solve. - Text Editors - with the exception of some specialised tools, text editors are seldom made for authors, they are either too much specialised or too little. Building a custom wo
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Thanks :), the FAQ is on the way too.
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Yes, I don't have the pricing nailed down, so I thought I'd start with 9%. How it works is you set a price for your digital book, and when a printable version is ordered we add the cost of printing and shipping on top of the cost
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    The plan is to act as an intermediary between you and readers and take on most of the responsibility and risk associated with moving money. I do understand taxes are a complex hairy beast, but we’ll do our best to handle most of it for you,
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Thanks for the feedback :) - A new design is already in the works which shows published books right on the home screen. - We integrate with a third party print-on-demand service that has printers in almost all major countries, once the orde
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Print on demand is being worked on, but for the initial set we’re thinking mass market paperback and hardcover.
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Yes, that might have been an issue with traditional publishing, but here we take 9% per sale, the rest goes to the you, the author.
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Not at all, pushed all the recommendations. Thanks again for pointing out the mistakes, I think I hit a nerve with everyone who visited the homepage today :(
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Yes, I was so focused on the tech side, I forgot about who the core audience was and how much they of all people cares about language. I'm fixing the copy and I will get someone experienced on it.
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Currently the only supported way is copy and paste, and we'll retain the basic formatting. The editor is being rewritten and once it's finished we'll support direct import from Word documents. You'll just have to specify
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions, especially the one with the name, fixed and pushed :D
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Thanks for the heads up, fixed it and pushed an update. Need to have someone professional check the copy out. It's bad taste to have grammatical errors on an author focused platform.
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    It was a rate limit error, I have fixed it and it's deploying now.
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Thanks for the kind words :). Beauty can be subjective, but here is something we’re striving for https://moot-books.github.io/moot-KTU/CSE/S6/CN_CS306.pdf . Initially we would typeset the books using vanilla L
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    TLDR: Making books is hard, so I built a platform where you just have to write the text and we'll typeset, publish, make it available via print-on-demand and setup a storefront so you can sell it easily. It's in alpha state and ca
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Heyy everyone, I'm Aswin Mohan from Kerala, India and I'm building IndiePaper. It's an end to end platform for making and selling beautiful self-published books. During university, the only notes we had were shabby scans of h
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    Show HN: IndiePaper – An easy way to write and sell self-published books(indiepaper.me)

    146 points by aswinmohanme 5y ago|54 comments
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Note to self
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    by aswinmohanme 5y ago

    Fly.io comes close. You have docker based builds on the cloud with native multi region support. Postgres is in beta right now.