Tiptap is amazing!! I'm using it to create an electron desktop application to help students plan studies and take notes. The app is greatly inspired by Notion, but given the niche, it will be much simpler and easy to use. Thanks a lot for your effort! I can't see myself creating the app without Tiptap.
Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
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Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#72I'm using Tiptap on writedown (https://writedown.app)
I really like it. The documentation on extensions is a bit lacking but understandable.
One thing I don't really like is the price increase as you got funding. I thought the plans would be cheaper, not 5-7x more expensive post-funding.
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for your open source contributions and in-depth articles. We think that the field of collaboration is still new and evolving. Because of the pros and cons of the different implementations, we think it might be a good idea to have the choice between libraries like Yjs and Automerge. Would you use it?
I wouldn't say no to first-party integration with crsqlite! [1] [1] https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite
I didn't know that. Especially the first approach [1] sounds interesting to me, because as far as I know the transactions of Yjs seem to be a problem on heavily changing documents. Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite#approach-1-history-free...
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm really glad I chose it over Lexical and other options. Congrats Do you mind expanding on this? I've been comparing the two and found the lexical data model easier to understand.
It doesn't include Lexical, but GitLab did a detailed comparison of rich text editors a while back and settled on Tiptap. Their write-ups are pretty detailed: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/231725 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273238
The first link shows a discussion that started in July 2020, when Tiptap was only available in version 1. The new major version 2, which is a complete rewrite, was in development. The biggest drawback the GitLab engineers had was the lack of a test suite in Tiptap 1. That's understandable, because as a key component of your application, testing is necessary to ensure that you catch breakable changes. Tiptap 2 does just that. [1]
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#75I'm using Tiptap on writedown ( https://writedown.app ) I really like it. The documentation on extensions is a bit lacking but understandable. One thing I don't really like is the price increase as you got funding. I thought the plans would be cheaper, not 5-7x more expensive post-funding.
As my colleague Sebastian mentioned here [1], we are still in the process of finding the right pricing model. Over the last few months we have added a lot of value to our plans with new extensions and the managed collaboration backend. We also added a free plan to use our services for small hobby projects or to build a prototype to evaluate the use of Tiptap. So we thought it was only fair to change the price. Right now we don't have the option to only pay for the services you need.
Which services do you use? Pro Extensions, Collaboration and/or AI? We are curious about the usage of our services.
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#76Tiptap is amazing!! I'm using it to create an electron desktop application to help students plan studies and take notes. The app is greatly inspired by Notion, but given the niche, it will be much simpler and easy to use. Thanks a lot for your effort! I can't see myself creating the app without Tiptap.
Thanks for your feedback! Can we find your electron app somewhere or at least the source code? Desktop and especially mobile apps are a completely different domain for an editor.
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#77We started using Tiptap recently and was surprised that it was not a brand new solution! We like it very much so far
As mentioned here, [1] GitLab decided to use Tiptap 1 back in 2020.
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#78Currently using TipTap as a higher level abstraction on top of ProseMirror. Mostly for the React node view support which works very well. I try to implement most other stuff as straight ProseMirror plugins. Shameless plug for some ProseMirror FOSS ecosystem contributions I've recently made: A commit-based collab plugin that's far more performant under heavily active client loads than stock. I'm a fan of YJS, but not…
Have you tried the nytimes react integration? https://github.com/nytimes/react-prosemirror
It should be lighter than tiptap.
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#79Congrats on the launch. I just want to say that I love the name :) It's fun, memorable, evocative of the product's purpose, and rolls off the tongue.
Apparently, we're not the only ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36964592
Re: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors
#80I’ve been playing with TipTap for the last few weeks and really enjoying it! Going Headless seems like a good approach however it’s made rolling out TipTap for a side project tedious as I need to start with styling basic components. It’d be great to have an 80% use-case coverage for common components. I’ll call out this wrapper for TipTap + MUI I stumbled on that’s been a nice addition. https://github.com/sjdemartini…
We think the headless approach is a big factor in why Tiptap has become so popular, but you are right! You can't just add Tiptap to your project without styling. That's why we're always asked about a drop-in Notion-like styling. We don't offer this, but our community has built something that might help you: https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote
Thanks for the shout-out!