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Show HN: Skypad – Simple and Sharable Real-Time Collaborative Notepad

49 points| david90 | 8 years ago |github.com | reply

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[+] IRLIamOffline|8 years ago|reply
Looks really good already. Think there actually is potential to target people for who Google Docs is too overloaded. Like the idea of supporting markdown.

It might also be really useful to support syntax highlighting as I see one use-case for really quick and uncomplicated pair programming.

[+] david90|8 years ago|reply
Code highlighting sounds really useful. Yet need to improve the collaboration before supporting pair programming perfectly.
[+] sifxtreme|8 years ago|reply
Hey this looks great! Does Skygear handle the synchronization logic?

I built my own notepad a while ago too using ShareJS as the syncing library. (http://www.madpad.me/) https://github.com/sifxtreme/madpad

[+] david90|8 years ago|reply
It handles both the saving logic and the pubsub logic. You can view the source in app.js . It took me around 2 hours for this quick project.
[+] oschn|8 years ago|reply
Nice tool. I like the simplicity in code and interface.

We did implement real-time collaborative editing for Teamemo (https://teamemo.com) and the real challenge was to support rich text editing.

Are there plans to support rich text?

[+] david90|8 years ago|reply
Nice one! It's a hack project for now - but I actually prefer Markdown support and collaborator indicator next.
[+] wongarsu|8 years ago|reply
It looks like a clone of etherpad to demonstrate skygear. Is that about it, or am I missing something cool (except for the very nice visual design)?
[+] david90|8 years ago|reply
Thanks for the liking the visual. This is a quick hack in an hour to demonstrate how http://skygear.io 's real-time sync and cloud database feature. Yet I am thinking to add more feature to it - markdown support and collaborator marks. Do you have any ideas on that?
[+] _joel|8 years ago|reply
Doesn't work for me on Firefox (latest)
[+] melicerte|8 years ago|reply
same for me, the edit window is very small actualy
[+] the_common_man|8 years ago|reply
Very nice. https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad is decent as well.
[+] athenot|8 years ago|reply
Oh nice! I didn't realize Hackpad's code got opensource after Dropbox shut it down.

I really† liked Hackpad as a wiki for my team; it was a lot easier to jot down thoughts and better followed the spirit of a wiki (from "quick" in Hawaiian), than the so-called "wikis" we see nowadays that are just bad CMS tools... I'm looking at you, Confluence.

†: enough to be a paying customer.