Form aside, this looks like a very interesting product, as others I wanted to work on something similar too. Good luck!
Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
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Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#12What is the benefit of creating a web app that only works in 1 particular browser? Or is this not a web app?
The extension is currently only available for Chrome, but all the functionality is available at http://web.notabledocs.com/web/viewer.html - If you share your document, that's what the other people get. We actually work offline (including making comments) if you install the extension.
Cool stuff! Something I've been thinking about too. Open Source?
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#13This is EXACTLY the product I wanted to make, thanks! I think a use case for which you could sell it is collaborative class note-taking. My teachers distribute PDFs of their lecture slides before class which students use to take notes on (so that they don't have to recreate figures, etc). I have always thought it would be great for this PDF-markup process to take place live in some sort of Google Doc interface. This…
We actually made that product first! - http://www.notable.ac is similar, but made specifically for students, documents are organized by course and notes can be made public/private/shared with friends.
It does take a bit more work to setup, because you have to upload the documents to the site first (we process them into images on the server, and support Word/Powerpoint as well as PDF).
We had trouble getting traction in the education space - So we built the Chrome version, which works much better for single documents and for uses outside education. But we're still keeping notable.ac running so feel free to give it a try.
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#14Classy! Form aside, this looks like a very interesting product, as others I wanted to work on something similar too. Good luck!
... this is what happens when you finally get something working at 6am :)
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The extension is currently only available for Chrome, but all the functionality is available at http://web.notabledocs.com/web/viewer.html - If you share your document, that's what the other people get. We actually work offline (including making comments) if you install the extension.
Cool stuff! Something I've been thinking about too. Open Source?
Not right now, but it's something we're considering - we certainly owe a lot to Mozilla's PDF.js, which is doing the PDF rendering for us. It's just tricky to decide to give away the code when you don't yet know what part of your startup is (hopefully) going to be valuable.
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#16How long take to make it? How many persons are in your team? Is it a kind of side project?
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#17Classy! Form aside, this looks like a very interesting product, as others I wanted to work on something similar too. Good luck!
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#18Can this app be an item in the "chrome://apps/" page, and use my google credentials for logging in? Or some form of OpenID?
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#19its kinda "funny" how pdf.js is used for Chrome in a way that only works with chrome. (given that it comes from firefox)
thanks for walled gardens google!
Re: Show HN: Pdf.js-based real-time collaborative viewer for Chrome
#20Hah, the layout is almost exactly like a thing I'd developed last year: comment threads on the right, callouts into the document on the left.
Pretty cool--if anyone's interested, I'll try to get the source code released.