Interesting. How about talking an existing product and reimplementing it? It would be different but not by design. I wonder whether this is a good strategy for a bootstrapped team.
Stypi has support for code formatting and syntax highlighting, and lets you play back all your edits. To my knowledge etherpad did not have these features.
Actually, via the link, you can see that pg was using Stypi (I too thought it was EtherPad…). The link from the post works: https://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences
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How is Stypi different from Etherpad?
Etherpad got acquired by Google, Stypi got acquired by Salesforce.
but how are the actual products different?...
Need they be? Etherpad was good enough to get bought, clearly a product just like Etherpad would be of some value.
Looks like Salesforce thought so.
I believe Etherpad was open sourced. I suspect there are other reasons why Salesforce went ahead with the buyout. Perhaps licensing?
Talent acquisition?
Yep, got to be (congrats guys). Etherpad/ShareJS code is great, but limited without the brains to fully exploit the capabilities.
Interesting. How about talking an existing product and reimplementing it? It would be different but not by design. I wonder whether this is a good strategy for a bootstrapped team.
Stypi has support for code formatting and syntax highlighting, and lets you play back all your edits. To my knowledge etherpad did not have these features.
Etherpad had playback (there was some famous instance of Paul Graham recording his entire process of writing an article).
You may be confused and thinking of this:
http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html
Which was Paul Graham using playback on Stypi
No, it was actually EtherPad. The link to it obviously does not work, unfortunately.
Actually, via the link, you can see that pg was using Stypi (I too thought it was EtherPad…). The link from the post works: https://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences
Edit: Okay, I was wrong. It was originally Etherpad: http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
FWIW, here is the HN link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336