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hn_anon_groups
Congrats to all the founders!

First Etherpad and now Stypi, looks like this area is ripe for further disruption.

igorsyl
How is Stypi different from Etherpad?
volaski
Etherpad got acquired by Google, Stypi got acquired by Salesforce.
Jonanin
but how are the actual products different?...
Danieru
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.

igorsyl
I believe Etherpad was open sourced. I suspect there are other reasons why Salesforce went ahead with the buyout. Perhaps licensing?
chrisdroukas
Talent acquisition?
tbundy
Yep, got to be (congrats guys). Etherpad/ShareJS code is great, but limited without the brains to fully exploit the capabilities.
igorsyl
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.
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typpo
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.
dools
Etherpad had playback (there was some famous instance of Paul Graham recording his entire process of writing an article).
Vekz
You may be confused and thinking of this:

http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html

Which was Paul Graham using playback on Stypi

rdl
Wow, that was fast. (9 months?). Congratulations.
dtran
Congrats Jason and Byron. Glad that the product will live on - Stypi is great for asking short coding questions during Skype/telephone interviews. Everyone I've interviewed using Stypi has said something positive about it.
aberman
Congrats Jason and Byron. You guys deserve it. Salesforce is lucky to have you.
randall
Congrats guys! Seriously awesome to see you acquired.
bizodo
Do you mind if I ask how many users you has when acquired? How did you first come across sales force radar?
tarr11
Not sure what this product offers over the (awesome) work done by ShareJS and ACE already. Looks like stypi is using both those products for it's core functionality

http://sharejs.org/

olalonde
This is clearly a talent acquisition.
kingsidharth
Sort of saddens me,these guys came to pick-up where Etherpad guys left and change the online writing. And after first release there was no major update.
mvanveen
Great. Now I'll never get my collaborative vim plugin :-(
ricardobeat
And there goes OT collaborative editing back into the ether again...