Yes, but there's a really large number of users who don't want to have to setup vscode, git, texlive, latex workshop, just to collaborate on a paper. You shouldn't have to become a full stack software engineer to be able to write a research paper in LaTeX.
Even if yall don’t train off it he’ll find some other way.
“In one example, [Friar] pointed to drug discovery: if a pharma partner used OpenAI technology to help develop a breakthrough medicine, [OpenAI] could take a licensed portion of the drug's sales”
I could see it seeming likely that because the UI is quite minimalist, but the AI capabilities are very extensive, imo, if you really play with it.
You're right that something like Cursor can work if you're familiar with all the requisite tooling (git, installing cursor, installing latex workshop, knowing how it all works) that most researchers don't want to and really shouldn't have to figure out how to work for their specific workflows.
The deeper I got, the more I realized really supporting the entire LaTeX toolchain in WASM would mean simulating an entire linux distribution :( We wanted to support Beamer, LuaLaTeX, mobile (wasn't working with WASM because of resource limits), etc.
I'm not against typst. I think it's integration would be a lot easier and more straightforward I just don't know if it's really that popular yet in academia.
The WASM constraints make sense given the resource limits, especially for mobile. If you are moving that compute server-side though I am curious about the unit economics. LaTeX pipelines are surprisingly heavy and I wonder how you manage the margins on that infrastructure at scale.
You are right in pointing out that the Web browser isn't the most suitable UI paradigm for highly interactive applications like a scientific typesetting system/text editor.
I have occasionally lost a paragraph just by accidental marking a few lines and pressing [Backspace].
But at the moment, there is no better option than Overleaf, and while I encourage you to write what you propose if you can, Overleaf will be the bar that any such system needs to be compared against.
We have a few different ideas but hoping to get signal from the folks here on what people would like to see.
Some sort term ideas:
* Auto-categorization. We're seeing most people just have "starred" places, and that's really it, so having some way to suggest a better breakdown of places should locations.
* Adding the ability to sort results by various criteria (distance, recently viewed, rating, alphabetical)
Some longer term ideas:
* Making the experience more social, but more like "iMessage" social not "Facebook" social, if that makes sense.
Once you start importing your saved places, it may take a bit of time for them to show up but once they’re there, you can add notes, add to lists, search through your saved places by note, category, list, visited / not-visited or star rating.
I built this for my fiancée who wanted these features but I’m looking for feedback on how intuitive it is for others as well to see if there are any other features folks would like to see.
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