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Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by axod »

flog wrote: post #30
staunch wrote: post #14

Thanks to The Google & The Etherpads! I fully expect to see 30 different sites offering this now, and HN to be full of links to them tomorrow.

For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct. Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?

I don't see why it's worrying. Half the reason to do something like 'make an etherpad competitor' would/should be to learn how it works. Once you have that, there's a ton of different products you could make/morph into.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by majke »

Raphael wrote: post #33
flog wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct. Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?

Make it more technical. Monospace, syntax highlighting, version control, TeX, markdown. Would also make an interesting mash-up with Bespin.

http://cometdemo.lshift.net:8080/ ?

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#44

Post by ph0rque »

Raphael wrote: post #33
flog wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct. Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?

Make it more technical. Monospace, syntax highlighting, version control, TeX, markdown. Would also make an interesting mash-up with Bespin.

What's more, different servers can focus on different language syntax highlighting.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by shimon »

Raphael wrote: post #33
flog wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct. Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?

Make it more technical. Monospace, syntax highlighting, version control, TeX, markdown. Would also make an interesting mash-up with Bespin.

EtherPasteBin?

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by stephen »

flog wrote: post #30
staunch wrote: post #14

Thanks to The Google & The Etherpads! I fully expect to see 30 different sites offering this now, and HN to be full of links to them tomorrow.

For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct. Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?

I'd like a real-time-updating version of instacalc. Great tool for communicating about calculations, but it sucks having to send the URL back and forth all the time.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by mark_l_watson »

simonw wrote: post #23

$ sh bin/rebuildjar.sh using JAR jar... usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory including etherpad JARs... using cached JAR-etherpad... updating... java.io.FileNotFoundException: ../../build/appjet.jar (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream. (FileIn…

The directions say to set export MYSQL_CONNECTOR_JAR= to location of a mysql client jar -- you see this error message if you don't do this.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by mark_l_watson »

Awesome, following the directions, it took just a few minutes to get a local copy running. I used to run my own online word processor, written about 6 years ago for my own use, but a few thousand people signed up to try it. It is tempting to run an EtherPad instance for my business clients, and another one for my friends and family. That said, eventually I think that Wave will be awesome so sticking to that makes the most sense. Investing a lot of time to get into the EtherPad codebase seems like a slippery slope to non-productivity.
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