ShareLaTeX

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Post by ot » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 12:54 AM UTC

ShareLaTeX
sharelatex.com

Re: ShareLaTeX

#2

Post by amirmansour » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 1:27 AM UTC

This is a legit startup idea. I can see my professors, research advisors, and myself using this for sure. Collaborative research documentation is a great idea. I hope others will see what I see, and use your service.

Awesome job BTW.

Re: ShareLaTeX

#3

Post by th » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 1:32 AM UTC

LaTeX Lab http://docs.latexlab.org/> is similar but Share LaTeX seems to have a much cleaner interface.

Re: ShareLaTeX

#4

Post by xtacy » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 1:37 AM UTC

Does it have integration with Dropbox or some other file sharing service? That, IMHO, would be a killer feature!

Re: ShareLaTeX

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Post by madiator » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 1:53 AM UTC

Just few days ago I was saying that I wish Google docs could handle latex. Now this looks perfect! I will be sharing this with my advisor and other students and see whether we can use it.

Re: ShareLaTeX

#6

Post by gammarator » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 2:00 AM UTC

This could be very useful! One potential challenge is there may not be a huge range of installed packages.

Re: ShareLaTeX

#7

Post by zzleeper » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 2:06 AM UTC

Looks amazing. Compiles fast, supports packages, and the error logs are much better than what I use.

That said, it would be nice to be able to download the files with one click, sync with dropbox, and maybe have support for versions or diffs?

Re: ShareLaTeX

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Post by beck5 » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 2:18 AM UTC

Hi creator here, just got in from a few beers to see on HN which is amazing to see! I've only been coding for about 20+ months or so and this has been my evening/weekend project for the past few months, its a very new site, only out for about 5 weeks now. There are still lots of things to improve but the feedback has been amazing.

I am aiming for a fermium model at the moment, deep down I want to offer free a service which helps people collaborate on important work. Ideally with premium accounts subsidising a free but fully functional accounts. i.e. help people work together first, make a living second.

few buzzwords for people: > MongoDB/mongolab, > 100% CoffeeScript, > Node.js, > Now.js/socket.io, > Twitter bootstrap, stole css for menu bar from nide https://github.com/coreh/nide > S3 > Linode > loggy.com

Re: ShareLaTeX

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Post by beck5 » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 2:19 AM UTC

gammarator wrote: post #6

This could be very useful! One potential challenge is there may not be a huge range of installed packages.

At the moment it is just a full installation of tex-live 2011 on ubuntu, if something is missing just do some feedback and I will install it within a few (waking) hours.

Re: ShareLaTeX

#10

Post by beck5 » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 2:22 AM UTC

th wrote: post #3

LaTeX Lab http://docs.latexlab.org/&#62 ; is similar but Share LaTeX seems to have a much cleaner interface.

LaTeX lab is a direct copy of google documents. I am also incorrect with www.scribtex.com who have another service. Scribex are going strong but latexlab is not being worked on anymore. sharelatex is the only service which offers the ability to work in real time which is the way I see latex collaboration working.