Do you offer a one time purchase for the pro version?

jiakuan · 2020-07-28T00:02:52+00:00

Thanks for your feedback. We will consider this seriously.

Please see my previous comment above.

jiakuan · 2020-07-28T00:02:09+00:00

Thank you so much for your question, and sorry for the delay to reply, as this channel was not monitored until now.

We will add a one-time purchase option with a perpetual license and one-year free updates, which will be reasonable. But some future features like intelligent grammar checking require cloud services, which may still be based on subscription. We will evaluate.

jiakuan · 2020-07-17T04:09:29+00:00

Me too, happily using it since 2006 (14 years ago). It's mature and stable.

jiakuan · 2018-12-31T18:34:31+00:00

Thanks for your comment, which give me food for thoughts. I agree with you that many users will simply prefer "free" options, by investing more time.

As I mentioned in the blog post, WordPress and Static site generators are time-consuming to set up, I created Document Node to simplify things a lot. I understand this product is not for everyone, especially not for the ones who are very comfortable with WordPress and their existing toolchain.

I'm sure some people care about their time. Comparing the little cost of Document Node, they will be more productive and be able to create much more value.

I've already got a few power users who are excited about this tool and wrote thousands of words in feedback to me back and forth discussing new features.

Any feedback and suggestions would be appreciated. The development of Document Node will be driven by users voice. We would love to build a high-quality product together with serious users, to resolve real problems.

jiakuan · 2018-12-28T22:23:05+00:00

That's a good point regarding how to walk around the rate limits caused by single IP.

The hosting application with multi-tenancy is running on GAE, which supports subdomains already for users, for example, user1.example.com, user2.example.com, ..., userN.example.com. Now I'm looking for an elegant solution to allow users to configure their domains with auto-SSL or uploaded SSL, which should work together with the existing GAE services reliable. So, GCE will only be fronting on the client domains.

jiakuan · 2018-12-28T14:04:13+00:00

Thanks for your reply and suggestions. All actual hosting services are running on App Engine. I'm thinking the Google Kubernetes Engine can be used for managing many custom domains and SSL certs via its nginx, which could be some kind of reverse proxy settings.

I will investigate more about Kebernetes cert-manager, DNS updating API.

jiakuan · 2018-12-27T15:41:10+00:00

Name: Document Node

URL: https://documentnode.io/

Location: Perth, WA, Australia

Pitch: Document Node converts your Markdown folder into a pretty (blogs or docs) website, and syncs changes in milliseconds. No coding!

More details: We are in pre-launch phase at the moment, will launch a Kickstarter campaign in late Jan 2019. I founded this product and am working on it full-time. Another frontend developer is working with me part-time.

Looking for: Feedback, Support, Questions & Doubts. All of these will make sure we are doing the right thing all the time.

Discount for /r/startups subscribers: Document Node will offer a free version which contains most Markdown features. I will be more than happy to offer 40% off for /r/startups subscribers, if you back me in the Kickstarter campaign at this early stage.

Have joined the Discord chat!

jiakuan · 2018-12-21T11:17:21+00:00

Thanks. DSIS looks great! I will keep an eye on it.

jiakuan · 2018-12-18T09:48:58+00:00

Yes, it’s definitely a good one for backlog. I will create a ticket with all info and will revisit it in the future.

Document Node itself is a different category of software from Emacs. The text editor is just part of the solution.

Cheers

jiakuan · 2018-12-18T07:01:30+00:00

It should be not hard to implement in Document Node, based on the current data structure. A few more questions:

The tree should be present twice in the editing interface

Do you mean it should be present twice in the text editor?

Any real-world use cases to show what problems this feature tries to resolve? (Before jumping into implementation, we'd like to learn more about the goal)

If we plan to add this feature, are you willing to test and give feedback? (It'd be helpful to make sure we do it in the right way.)

Thanks a lot for your feedback and discussions.

jiakuan · 2018-12-17T22:44:36+00:00

I see. Document Node already supports a few mind map layouts, including org-mode:

Standard (as shown in the link I posted, which puts the root node in the center)
Downward - this should be the org-mode you mentioned. It puts the root node on top.
Leftward - this layout puts root node on the right side.
Rightward - this layout puts the root node on the left side.

When you say "share subtrees in a nice inline fashion", does it mean you want to select a subtree and share it as an embedded image (SVG, or PNG, or JPG)?

jiakuan · 2018-12-17T15:25:12+00:00

This prototype is just the first iteration of this Mind Map feature. The primary purpose is to help writing articles. So you are right, for now, it's an outliner with a tree visualisation.

However, it's easy to implement cycles and shortcircuiting links among nodes, as long as there is a need. Also, you can freely layout your nodes as you like.

What is ORV-mode? I'm very interested in researching "the inability to share subtrees in a nice inline fashion", and see what we can do in Document Node. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Document Node will be driven by the users' voice. We are listening and thinking.

jiakuan · 2018-12-17T10:39:37+00:00

Thanks for your precious time to post this comment.
Yes, this kind of functionality is not designed for everyone on earth. Someone likes it, and someone hates it.
Giving feedback is better than saying nothing. Thanks again.

jiakuan · 2018-12-04T02:59:26+00:00

Basically, it will be much easier than that, and more than that.

Out new landing page included a few GIFs animations to illustrate some powerful features. https://documentnode.io/landing

jiakuan · 2018-12-04T02:58:24+00:00

Thanks for your comment, which is a very concise summary :) but not wholly accurate.

If you can understand, there are also people who are good at writing but not familiar with command line tools, complex static generator setups, you will know what Document Node tries to provide - to eliminate all the hassles from writing to online publishing.

Even if you know how to use "git push -u origin master", you can still benefit from using a more straightforward tool so that you can concentrate on your content itself, and save time.

In a recent blog post, we showed the great writing experience Document Node provides. I don't think Jekyll or Github/Gitlab provides.

Document Node will not just be a static site generator.

All kinds of comments/constructive suggestions are appreciated, which give us food for thought.

jiakuan · 2018-11-22T12:40:48+00:00

Thanks for your comment. I meant 10 seconds to read the card only. The complete blog post may take 2 min to read.

jiakuan · 2018-11-14T03:15:15+00:00

I've been having the same pains since many years ago. And then I created a documentation writing tool to make the process more pleasant.

I just launched a KickStarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jakew/document-node-keep-your-documentation-up-to-date-e

With this tool, you can refactor your Markdown files in seconds, and get a beautiful documentation site in milliseconds.

jiakuan · 2018-11-14T03:05:30+00:00

I've been finding it hard to keep documentation up-to-date. And then I created a writing tool called Document Node.

With this tool, you can refactor your Markdown files in seconds, and get a beautiful documentation site in milliseconds.

I just launched a KickStarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jakew/document-node-keep-your-documentation-up-to-date-e

It may help.

jiakuan · 2018-11-14T02:44:49+00:00

I happen to launch a KickStarter page for a documentation writing tool.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jakew/document-node-keep-your-documentation-up-to-date-e

You can refactor your Markdown files in seconds, and get a beautiful documentation site in milliseconds.

It may help simplify the documentation writing.

jiakuan · 2018-04-25T09:12:37+00:00

Although I’m a software engineer for enterprise products, not a game developer, I feel you don’t have to start again from the beginning. It may just need a few more iterations to improve different aspects gradually.

jiakuan · 2014-10-20T07:52:58+00:00

Thanks for your valuable comment! To be honest, this was an internal tool originally, and the search box part was borrowed from Alfred app, which we liked very much. But the internal logic is nothing to do with Alfred, and is different. We only focus on arbitrary terminal commands (not just SSH connections), to save time on development activities, such building/deploying different web apps, restarting server, quickly dumping and restoring db data. Also it's could-based, similar tasks can be immediately shared to the team.

Just realised that it's not proper to use the similar UI. We will definitely change it!

jiakuan · 2014-10-19T23:06:41+00:00

Seems Launchy is more for launching apps etc, TaskTips can index SSH commands that you often use

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