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Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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Post by pyrotechnick »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #25

A friend and I built Tou (a web clone of Mou) a few months ago. It supports dropbox and HTML5 local storage :-) http://tou.whiskeydrivendevelopment.com

It appears in need of a little maintenance (broken tables) but I like this. Nice work.

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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Post by gbog »

charleshaanel wrote: post #28

Congrats on your taking action. It puts you ahead of 90% of the people who read and don't execute. A few questions.... *Is your project for fun or for profit? If the latter, what pain does it alleviate, whom is it targeted towards and before you created it, was there any indication they wanted a solution strong enough to pay someone for the answer (to elucidate, skip to 1:03 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m9vPAlb_0…

> for fun or for profit?

It occurred to me that not only there are many other reasons to write code, but also that the two reasons you mention are of the weakest sort.

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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Post by ianstormtaylor »

andrew_k wrote: post #35

Going back to "Edit" mode in Safari seems to be broken http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1229269/Screenshots/58.png

Darn, my guess is it's flexbox weirdness, since Safari only supports the old spec. I tried to fallback to the old spec when possible, but that could be something that was never fixed since the old spec was abandoned... sorry about that!

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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Post by charleshaanel »

gbog wrote: post #33
charleshaanel wrote: post #28

Congrats on your taking action. It puts you ahead of 90% of the people who read and don't execute. A few questions.... *Is your project for fun or for profit? If the latter, what pain does it alleviate, whom is it targeted towards and before you created it, was there any indication they wanted a solution strong enough to pay someone for the answer (to elucidate, skip to 1:03 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m9vPAlb_0…

> for fun or for profit? It occurred to me that not only there are many other reasons to write code, but also that the two reasons you mention are of the weakest sort.

That's because you're not an entrepreneur - fair enough. A person who wants to build a sustainable business however, has to solve urgent problems and generate profits for stakeholders (not relevant if you're a socialist).

Did you watch the PG vid?

Re: Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown

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Post by charliesome »

charleshaanel wrote: post #37
gbog wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> for fun or for profit? It occurred to me that not only there are many other reasons to write code, but also that the two reasons you mention are of the weakest sort.

That's because you're not an entrepreneur - fair enough. A person who wants to build a sustainable business however, has to solve urgent problems and generate profits for stakeholders (not relevant if you're a socialist). Did you watch the PG vid?

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