Show HN: We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX

James from ShareLaTeX here. I'm hanging around all day today ready for the barrage of pull requests that we're about to receive(!) so feel free to ask me any questions.

This is awesome, really appreciate you guys open sourcing this app.

Basically, we wanted to! We've benefited hugely from open source projects ourselves, and have always enjoyed being part of the community surrounding them. It seems like the default state is to not be open source, but we realised that since we own and run the business behind ShareLaTeX, we had the freedom to play by our own rules. We also think it makes sense from a business point of view as well, since it will (hopefully) make us accessible to a wider audience, particularly onsite installations that we don't have the resources to support as a proprietary 'enterprise' system.

We've written a bit more about our motivations in our blog here as well: https://www.sharelatex.com/blog/2014/02/21/sharelatex-is-now...

You're doing a great thing by making your platform open source. Even though you make it incredibly easy to get set up with a well written readme, I'd much rather purchase this service because it's not expensive and I know I'm supporting good people that care about contributing to the open source community. Plus, your product is awesome.

This is awesome