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Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by mshenfield » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 8:26 PM UTC

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1. Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed.

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Re: Hackpad source code

#12

Post by ninetax » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 8:35 PM UTC

mshenfield wrote: post #11

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1 . Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed. EDIT: Spelling and grammar

Was there ever any explanation for the delay?

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by workerbee07 » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 8:38 PM UTC

mshenfield wrote: post #11

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1 . Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed. EDIT: Spelling and grammar

They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.

Re: Hackpad source code

#14

Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 8:42 PM UTC

JJN wrote: post #10

I want to turn this into a mac app. Was not expecting java.

So Dockerize it and have the data backed up to an S3 bucket. Then you'd just docker pull, start the container, and surf to it locally.

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by ninetax » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 8:42 PM UTC

workerbee07 wrote: post #13

mshenfield wrote: post #11

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1 . Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed. EDIT: Spelling and grammar

They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.

Interesting, where did you hear that?

Re: Hackpad source code

#16

Post by mshenfield » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 8:48 PM UTC

workerbee07 wrote: post #13

mshenfield wrote: post #11

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1 . Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed. EDIT: Spelling and grammar

They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.

Couldn't find anything official to verify that, or any previous comments on Hacker News / Github mentioning someone being fired. Could you provide some supporting information?

Re: Hackpad source code

#17

Post by JJN » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 9:09 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #14

JJN wrote: post #10

I want to turn this into a mac app. Was not expecting java.

So Dockerize it and have the data backed up to an S3 bucket. Then you'd just docker pull, start the container, and surf to it locally.

Ya, i'll definitely be exploring. I always loved hackpad, but didn't use as much as I would if it was a native note taking app (like JustNotes which I use)

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by sixbit » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 9:16 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #2

Nice of them to put it there. Two points. 1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff. 2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.

The Hackpad import on DB Notes works really well and they have an option to redirect all your old Hackpad urls to the newly imported notes, which is pretty nice. The only catch with Notes so far is there is no way to back them up / export them from the DB Notes interface.

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by the_mitsuhiko » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 9:31 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #2

Nice of them to put it there. Two points. 1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff. 2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.

Notes is really good. It just saddens me that Dropbox does not base those systems on top of Dropbox but somewhere separately. I wish I could just get .md files or something similar in my Dropbox from what's on notes.

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by logicallee » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 9:31 PM UTC

workerbee07 wrote: post #13

mshenfield wrote: post #11

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1 . Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed. EDIT: Spelling and grammar

They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.

like the other respondents I'd just really appreciate if you at least casually attributed what you've stated to where you heard it, e.g. "heard from someone who worked there" or just heard from whoever. I believe you, since you made an account for this comment, as far as your attribution remember you're anonymous here, it's not going to get back to you.