Authorea - online collaborative editor for academic writing with LaTeX or Markdown

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM

I think there’s just too much competition in the online authoring space. Without a mobile app (that supports offline editing), such entrepreneurial efforts are almost guaranteed to fail. Which is why I watch Gingko with concern. Quip is a good example of the cross-platform approach - and it’s not bad. It’s not great, either; Gingko is much more exciting!

It’s difficult for software developers! If they’re ambitious, that means producing apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone (possibly also for Amazon Fire and Blackberry), optimised for both mobile phones and tablets. And if they’re seriously ambitious, it also means producing desktop apps for Windows and Mac at the very least, and ideally also for Linux (which implies multiple distributions by definition). 6Wunderkinder (developers of Wunderlist) have been wrestling with this quandary for a while.