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Re: Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

#51

Post by TobLoef »

hsitz wrote: post #49
TobLoef wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a bug with the styling, that should be fixed now.

Nope, still the same, can't see any mindmap or any button to click to create one. However, I can now see some blue text up above and to the right of the menu items, which when clicked takes me to mailchimp for email. That text is unreadable for me, though, not enough contrast with the black background it's on. I don't know what I'm supposed to see, but I assume there's supposed to be a mindmap graphic somewhere. This…

I think that might be a problem with the caching. I'll look into forcing a cache refresh.

Re: Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

#55

Post by hsitz »

TobLoef wrote: post #51
hsitz wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, still the same, can't see any mindmap or any button to click to create one. However, I can now see some blue text up above and to the right of the menu items, which when clicked takes me to mailchimp for email. That text is unreadable for me, though, not enough contrast with the black background it's on. I don't know what I'm supposed to see, but I assume there's supposed to be a mindmap graphic somewhere. This…

I think that might be a problem with the caching. I'll look into forcing a cache refresh.

Okay, seems to be working now. And mailchimp link is visible in 'subscribe to newsletter' over by github and twitter icons.

Re: Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

#56

Post by cabaalis »

TobLoef wrote: post #2

A few months ago one of my favorite tools http://www.text2mindmap.com went down and since there doesn't seem to be any plans to bring it back up I created my own version of the site. It's basically just a quick mashup between some of the code from the original site and some code from my Markdown Editor ( https://tobloef.com/markant/ ), but I hope someone will find it as useful as I did.

Do you know why it went offline? I'll assume lack of funding. What would be the best way to make a niche-app like this self-funding, given developers' aversion to ads? Donations? Monthly/Annual subscription? I have a similar site that I want to spin up, that serves a different purpose but has a similar interface.

Re: Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

#57

Post by drailing »

Hi, just a few days ago, I had the same problem and no text2mindmap. :(

So I started a similar project but with a different approach: I use a local webserver (written in go, because everything written in go is automatically awesome, obviously) with a filewatcher and a simple websocket to send everything to the browser.

And I use 2 spaces...

https://github.com/cdreier/mind-surf

Re: Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

#58

Post by mcjiggerlog »

cabaalis wrote: post #56
TobLoef wrote: post #2

A few months ago one of my favorite tools http://www.text2mindmap.com went down and since there doesn't seem to be any plans to bring it back up I created my own version of the site. It's basically just a quick mashup between some of the code from the original site and some code from my Markdown Editor ( https://tobloef.com/markant/ ), but I hope someone will find it as useful as I did.

Do you know why it went offline? I'll assume lack of funding. What would be the best way to make a niche-app like this self-funding, given developers' aversion to ads? Donations? Monthly/Annual subscription? I have a similar site that I want to spin up, that serves a different purpose but has a similar interface.

Really something like this shouldn't rely on being hosted by one person. A decentralized protocol like dat[0] would solve this problem.

[0] - https://datproject.org/

Re: Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

#59

Post by drailing »

drailing wrote: post #57

Hi, just a few days ago, I had the same problem and no text2mindmap. :( So I started a similar project but with a different approach: I use a local webserver (written in go, because everything written in go is automatically awesome, obviously) with a filewatcher and a simple websocket to send everything to the browser. And I use 2 spaces... https://github.com/cdreier/mind-surf

Ah damn, can't edit a comment?

Wanted to ask if you are interested in merging some ui? Your output looks much better ;)

Re: Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps

#60

Post by dschep »

cabaalis wrote: post #56
TobLoef wrote: post #2

A few months ago one of my favorite tools http://www.text2mindmap.com went down and since there doesn't seem to be any plans to bring it back up I created my own version of the site. It's basically just a quick mashup between some of the code from the original site and some code from my Markdown Editor ( https://tobloef.com/markant/ ), but I hope someone will find it as useful as I did.

Do you know why it went offline? I'll assume lack of funding. What would be the best way to make a niche-app like this self-funding, given developers' aversion to ads? Donations? Monthly/Annual subscription? I have a similar site that I want to spin up, that serves a different purpose but has a similar interface.

AFICT this replacement is hosted on Github pages, so there shouldn't really be any funding concerns.
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