Wall of Text
Productivity
collaborative note taking
SHOW HN2014
90points
40comments
#317of 2,272 in 2014
Top 14%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool, fun idea that feels like a pastebin on an infinite canvas
From 3 comments
Neat! I like how it appears to have an 'infinite' capacity for expansion in any direction, though I don't know if that's a good or a bad design choice. (Could a constraint be…
johnloeber on HNThis is amazing. Just thought about this idea a few days ago and boom! It exists! Would love to see support to embed any html (think youtube videos) every text area stored as a…
weedow on HNOh this is too cool and I would love to hear more of how you did it. What is your backend? Firebase or something? I made an iPad app (soonish to be universal) called Mindscope…
epaga on HN
Objections
Buggy and slow, server timeouts under load
From 4 comments
Cool idea but very buggy
thathonkey on HNToo bad, John. We had fun! Let's make some mayhem and test this a little together at http://walloftext.co/robots.txt Edit: Seems like we gave it the hugh of death. "the server…
jensen2k on HNI got a 504 earlier. The server must be running at capacity. It's still up for me.
johnloeber on HNApologies if it's down or slow, it's currently running on a micro instance.
louisstow on HN
Vandalism and defacing make the shared wall degrade
From 2 comments
My first reaction to this, and especially to the "hn" wall, was: this is very cool, we can all collaboratively write some weird/interesting/funny stuff and overall it's going to…
fuligo on HNI've noticed that most of these walls have an endstate of penises. No matter how interesting or artful it was, there is always a human drive to defile and debase. Or we start out…
badusername on HN
Idea is not new; similar sites already exist
From 3 comments
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/ has been doing something similar for about the last five years.
Icybee on HNhardly anything on the internet is "new". We're all just rehashing things that existed on the net in the 90s, doing them slightly better.
bollix on HNI did this same thing back around 2006. I shut it down, since I figured there's no value to it. One cool thing that I had on there that you might want to add is little flags next…
quaffapint on HN
Requests
Embed rich media like YouTube previews
From 2 comments
This is amazing. Just thought about this idea a few days ago and boom! It exists! Would love to see support to embed any html (think youtube videos) every text area stored as a…
weedow on HNThis pastes the link there, but doesn't embed it (i.e. no preview pic, etc).
dirkk0 on HN
Open source the code
From 1 comment
Will you open source the code? I'm learning socket io and it would be nice to look at.
billmalarky on HN
Write up the infinite canvas implementation
From 1 comment
I'd like to encourage you to do that, as well as explain more about the infinite canvas implementation, the payload that gets saved, and maybe even alternative implementations…
innguest on HN
Questions
How is the canvas infinite?
From 2 comments
how is it possible that the canvas seems to be infinite area?
ljk on HNThis needs an answer!
Kiro on HN
What is the backend?
From 1 comment
Oh this is too cool and I would love to hear more of how you did it. What is your backend? Firebase or something? I made an iPad app (soonish to be universal) called Mindscope…
epaga on HN
Alternatives named
Your World of Text
From 1 comment
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/ has been doing something similar for about the last five years.
Icybee on HN
Jotleaf
From 1 comment
The more the merrier! See also http://www.jotleaf.com/, a multimedia take on the same concept. Your World of Text, for what it's worth, is still going strong. It gets a lot of…
bdr on HN