Fiddle.md
Productivity
collaborative markdown editor
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
12 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 10 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 7 for, 2 againstDesign: 4 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, clean design and no signup needed
From 3 comments
Very nice! I love how easy you have made it to start a new fiddle, eliminating the signup. I'm all in for less signup walls on the internet!
mrborgen on HNI'm a fan of this - elegant and simple way to make markdown more accessible to those who would otherwise shy away from it's learning curve
nb410 on HNReally like the design, especially the search/menu box. It would be very nice to add proper support for tabs, especially when inserting larger blocks of code.
ComNik on HN
Markdown syntax helper is useful
From 1 comment
I love the syntax helper in the bottom. I've added markdown to a few projects and usually, I just added a help text summary near the input to remind users of the syntax; this is…
NKCSS on HN
Objections
Collaboration is unclear; changes not synced live
From 2 comments
I'm confused how this is collaborative. If a friend sends me a fiddle.md link and I change the content of the document, how do they become aware of my changes? Do I send them my…
yellowbkpk on HNWe tried to approach collaboration in a very simple way that doesn't require accounts and heavy realtime Google Docs-style co-editing. Our collaboration relies on versions and…
ggordan on HN
Preview does not sync with editing position
From 2 comments
As soon as the content is over a page long, the "preview" doesn't really work, since what is supposed to be previewed is out of bounds. I had developed a few years ago a markdown…
bambax on HN> It should be possible to scroll in the preview section, and then keep typing... Yes of course, that works, but you have to scroll manually. Maybe I don't write the way other…
bambax on HN
Tab key moves focus instead of inserting tabs
From 2 comments
Would be nice if the tab key inserted a tab instead of jumping to the next field (for writing code, etc).
wrl on HNReally like the design, especially the search/menu box. It would be very nice to add proper support for tabs, especially when inserting larger blocks of code.
ComNik on HN
Tables render poorly without styling
From 2 comments
Great! Looks very good! :) Although, table-support seems to be very limited. The table is generated correctly, but it doesn't look nice enough. Take a look at LightPaper for…
Gurrewe on HNI think it just needs some CSS love. Switch to HTML and you can definitely see it's putting out a table—it's just not a very pretty table.
freshyill on HN
Requests
Accounts to save and organise documents
From 2 comments
What about user accounts where we can keep track of Fiddles, so we can organize them with tags and categories?
brento on HNThe only thing that prevents me from using this that I can't make an account to save my documents, and I can't get that url bar to go away. The giant bar that says…
jaywunder on HN
Dark theme
From 1 comment
Looks interesting... Dark theme?
cfontes on HN
Dropbox import and other storage integrations
From 2 comments
As an academic that writes in Markdown (usually solo, offline), this ticks so many boxes for me. I love that for once I may be able to convince my co-authors to collaborate in…
quinndupont on HNI've played a bit and it looks really interesting. I see you currently support saving the fiddles to dropbox. Do you plan to add other storage systems? I'm thinking it would be…
xomateix on HN
Custom CSS and open source release
From 1 comment
I was thinking with this idea for some time and the killers features for me are: - Allow custom CSS - Post a json with the markdown content to a custom URL Do you plan to open…
xfalcox on HN
Embedded yUML diagram support
From 1 comment
Hello there! I'm using it today for a sales document, it's sweet. Well, there are some more complex yUML diagrams on the yUML samples page that don't work. It's probably yUML's…
tobinharris on HN
Questions
Is it open source?
From 1 comment
I was thinking with this idea for some time and the killers features for me are: - Allow custom CSS - Post a json with the markdown content to a custom URL Do you plan to open…
xfalcox on HN
Which Markdown flavour is used?
From 1 comment
> Markdown lacks a proper standard http://commonmark.org/. Of course, you might already know about this, and just be playing the https://xkcd.com/927/ card. On that topic, does…
jumpwah on HN
Alternatives named
mdocs
From 1 comment
Shameless plug: I worked on a similar tool mdocs [1]. The main difference is that is opensource, it supports authentication and authorization [2] similar to Google Docs. The…
jfroma on HN
Socrates
From 1 comment
Looks just like a bit more polished version of Socrates[1] [1] http://socrates.io/
andrewguenther on HN
StackEdit
From 1 comment
stackedit.io handles this part of it pretty well. Looking at this, I was wondering why this team didn't just fork that for their intended collaboration use-case (which is neat!).
ci5er on HN
Google Docs
From 1 comment
For me the only feature that's missing in Google Drive is not being able to use Markdown.
brento on HN