News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS. Parent comment

Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by albertgoeswoof on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:48AM (#18218089)
Well what’s the alternative to taking good notes for a developer? Markdown on git? You still have to pay for github if you want it to be private and you have the hassle of setting it up. $5/month is irrelevant if you use it a couple of times a day
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by keithnz on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:35PM (#18223441)
my point is not so much about the markdown editor, good job to the dev for spotting a niche where he can make a product. I'm just observing that my brain (annoyingly) would have never let me create something like that.

As an aside, for my dev diary (stored on a cloud file system ) I write markdown in Vim, I used to want to see it rendered and played around with visual editors, but I like vim style editing so I just deal with it in text form with syntax highlighting and that's plenty good enough for me.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by priccis on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:30PM (#18225931)
I've been using StackEdit.

> You still have to pay for github if you want it to be private

You can upload to a Gist and set it private

https://stackedit.io/ https://github.com/benweet/stackedit/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by ttty on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:08AM (#18218365)
Bitbucket for free?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by Svexar on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:32AM (#18218662)
BookStack: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by albertgoeswoof on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:11AM (#18218784)
But I have to install this and run my own server- the cheapest one I can find is 5usd/month, so I’m paying for that and the time to set it up + maintain it. Inkdrop still looks like better value for money
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS by Svexar on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:40PM (#18221802)
BookStack is free. You can add it to a server you already have or host it locally.
[ Parent | on HN ]