[HN Gopher] Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can us...
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       Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any
       login
        
       Author : yuvalhazaz
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2024-03-15 06:23 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (techcrunch.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com)
        
       | thorncorona wrote:
       | what is the point of this?
       | 
       | you can't store any important info if there's no login unless
       | your links contain the key.
       | 
       | and at that point you might as well just use a login instead
       | maintaining your own list of docs
        
         | geek_at wrote:
         | agreed, would be nice als selfhostable service though
        
         | inhumantsar wrote:
         | > The product is browser first and document history is stored
         | locally, so users can search for docs without querying the
         | server. The company said that while there is no offline support
         | at the moment, it is a feature that the startup will introduce
         | in the future. > > You can easily share these docs for others
         | to look at and collaborate with. However, some of the features
         | like read-only sharing are behind a login.
         | 
         | it took you longer to write that comment than it would've taken
         | to get the answer.
        
           | thorncorona wrote:
           | i see no reason to use this product over gsuite when it's
           | both cheaper, has more functionality, and a data/privacy
           | policy
        
         | omoikane wrote:
         | Access control appears to be a paid feature:
         | 
         | https://www.stashpad.com/pricing
         | 
         | Using the free version for anything sensitive might not be a
         | good idea, especially since I can't find anything about their
         | retention policy or something like terms of service.
        
         | ryandrake wrote:
         | The lack of needing an account is a (or _the_ ) key feature:
         | one I wish more online services copied. How much better and
         | more frictionless would the web be if we weren't having to log
         | into an account everywhere we went?
        
       | ilikehurdles wrote:
       | There once was an incredibly nice product like this called
       | hackpad. It even had a similar theme IIRC. It was a yc company,
       | lovely polished product, and the folks I was founding a startup
       | with loved it with zero effort spent on convincing them.
       | 
       | 10 years ago Dropbox bought it and shut it down.
       | 
       | https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hackpad
        
         | rigid wrote:
         | I loved etherpad but it was a pain to host back then.
         | 
         | I'd love to have something similar that's lightweight and not
         | serverside node.js
        
           | aedocw wrote:
           | Take a look at https://github.com/ekzhang/rustpad
        
       | unspecified wrote:
       | I _just_ got hedgedoc (nee codimd, nee hackmd [1]) setup for my
       | own purposes. It does have the advantage of splitscreen edit
       | /preview, and it has the option to use vim/emacs keybinds in the
       | editor, but if I'd had stashpad, I probably would not have
       | bothered setting up a selfhost hedgedoc.
       | 
       | [1] https://hedgedoc.org/history/
        
       | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
       | The real secret we need to know here is how to convince
       | TechCrunch to write about you when you have the most generic
       | product on the planet. Knowing journalists is the secret?
        
         | turnsout wrote:
         | If it makes you feel any better, news articles make almost no
         | impact on a product's revenue or success.
        
         | jhanoncomm wrote:
         | They raised $2M on the original idea this pivoted off which is
         | insane.
         | 
         | https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/30/stashpad-is-a-notepad-for-...
        
       | theamk wrote:
       | > The product is browser first and document history is stored
       | locally
       | 
       | so.. for throwaway documents then?
       | 
       | browser storage is one of the worst data places imagineable. Hard
       | to backup, very hard for user to access, impossible to sync or
       | share. And very unreliable too: many troubleshooting procedures
       | for web apps start with "reset browser profile" or "clear site
       | data"
        
         | RajT88 wrote:
         | The new and improved Pastebin
        
         | willsmith72 wrote:
         | "document history is stored locally" doesn't necessarily mean
         | "document history is not stored in the cloud/elsewhere"
        
       | sigmonsays wrote:
       | It needs to support some table of contents concept, pretty
       | limited tbh. This looks like a very basic app. Who do they know
       | at TC?
        
       | neom wrote:
       | I have a bookmark on my bookmark bar that just does
       | 
       | data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
       | 
       | It's great for quick notes between tabs or copy/pasting things
       | together into a cohesive comment.
        
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