ShareLaTeX
Productivity
collaborative latex editor
SHOW HN2014
276points
79comments
#55of 2,272 in 2014
Top 3%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
31 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 3 critical, out of 60 comments about the project. Thread score +0.51.
Idea: 11 for, 0 againstExecution: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Easy to use, no local LaTeX install needed
From 3 comments
Awesome! I happened to stumble upon ShareLaTeX just a couple of days ago, when I needed a CV and had no LaTeX installation available due to my personal laptop being broken. I…
adsche on HNI used your product to write my resume, and could finish it without having to learn latex top-to-bottom. Really an amazing product guys. Wish you all the best and hope you…
shrikrishna on HNI used ScribTex for my dissertation and have used ShareLaTeX for papers as well. Both were/are great services backed by a great team. Having experienced the pain in configuring…
phireph0x on HN
Good for collaboration without learning git
From 2 comments
This is awesome. A group of us used this to write a project for University a couple of years ago. It certainly made collaboration a lot easier, without everyone learning how to…
beejiu on HNCongratulations James & Henri! I'm very happy that my lab has been financially contributing to your work for nearly a year :-) Anyway, I'm currently writing my thesis and I've…
yrochat on HN
Open sourcing builds trust
From 2 comments
Kudos! Having your source available and ability to peek into it gives me more confidence in your service and I'd rather use that. Thank you for doing this.
geekam on HNThis is incredible news! Congratulations, and thanks so much for contributing back
onalark on HN
Objections
Dropbox sync is unreliable across computers
From 1 comment
Congratulations James & Henri! I'm very happy that my lab has been financially contributing to your work for nearly a year :-) Anyway, I'm currently writing my thesis and I've…
yrochat on HN
Slow auto-compilation on long documents
From 2 comments
My wife started out with www.writelatex.com to write her dissertation. The auto-compilation really slows down once you get beyond 30 or so pages. Also they don't have Git…
RA_Fisher on HNwriteLatex.com offers a live preview and it's faster overall. I really hoped this would be a better alternative because I'm already a bit disappointed in writeLatex.com's…
cliveowen on HN
No git integration
From 2 comments
My wife started out with www.writelatex.com to write her dissertation. The auto-compilation really slows down once you get beyond 30 or so pages. Also they don't have Git…
RA_Fisher on HNI have been meaning to use LayTeX for my assessment and now that my second year of university is rapidly approaching this product looks perfect. I would love to use this but…
xanth on HN
Requests
GitHub integration
From 2 comments
I have been meaning to use LayTeX for my assessment and now that my second year of university is rapidly approaching this product looks perfect. I would love to use this but…
xanth on HNJust tested this out with a 150 page document split across several folders; it compiled quickly and I really like the way you display the logs and warnings. Looks great! And I…
pseut on HN
Track changes and comment system like Word
From 2 comments
Thank you for open-sourcing this! At the moment I'm using sharelatex to keep a version of all my equations "alive" since every time someone tries to resave my word documents, the…
grittathh on HN> Word's comment and review tracking system is more intuitive. This. The first person that makes a LaTeX comment and track changes system as intuitive as Word's can have all my…
hootener on HN
Instant Dropbox synchronisation
From 1 comment
Congratulations James & Henri! I'm very happy that my lab has been financially contributing to your work for nearly a year :-) Anyway, I'm currently writing my thesis and I've…
yrochat on HN
Questions
Will open sourcing affect revenue?
From 2 comments
I (and I suspect many others here) would be very interested to know what effect this will have on your turnover. I guess you will get some increased revenue as others have…
theallan on HNWell, i have been working on something similar for a little while, what is the biggest challenge when getting started with this type of SAAS? what do you wish you knew when you…
bookworm101 on HN
Is there a consistent way to convert LaTeX to HTML?
From 1 comment
is there any consistent way to turn LaTeX into HTML?
mrcactu5 on HN
Alternatives named
writeLatex (ScribTex)
From 3 comments
My wife started out with www.writelatex.com to write her dissertation. The auto-compilation really slows down once you get beyond 30 or so pages. Also they don't have Git…
RA_Fisher on HNwriteLatex.com offers a live preview and it's faster overall. I really hoped this would be a better alternative because I'm already a bit disappointed in writeLatex.com's…
cliveowen on HNBrilliant! I used ScribTex (which I believe has now merged into ShareLaTex) a few years ago for my dissertation and it was brilliant! So much easier than maintaining a local…
leoedin on HN
flylatex
From 1 comment
Thank you so much! I wanted to use this initially but my advisor didn't agree with storing unpublished papers on another server than the localhost/our servers. As a result I was…
blueblob on HN
Local LaTeX install with git
From 1 comment
Our method of choice is local latex installatons + git, but this certainly looks interesting. It might be a good alternative if a less tech-savy member joins the group since it…
kaybe on HN