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Stypi (YC S11) has been acquired by Salesforce

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Haha I love how the post before this acquisition post was "First Blog Post" from December:

http://blog.stypi.com/

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.

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/

Do you mind if I ask how many users you has when acquired? How did you first come across sales force radar?

Congrats Jason and Byron. You guys deserve it. Salesforce is lucky to have you.

Congrats to all the founders!

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

Wow, that was fast. (9 months?). Congratulations.

And there goes OT collaborative editing back into the ether again...

This is clearly a talent acquisition.

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.

How is Stypi different from Etherpad?

Etherpad got acquired by Google, Stypi got acquired by Salesforce.

but how are the actual products different?...

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.

I believe Etherpad was open sourced. I suspect there are other reasons why Salesforce went ahead with the buyout. Perhaps licensing?

Talent acquisition?

Yep, got to be (congrats guys). Etherpad/ShareJS code is great, but limited without the brains to fully exploit the capabilities.

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.

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.

Etherpad had playback (there was some famous instance of Paul Graham recording his entire process of writing an article).

You may be confused and thinking of this:

http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html

Which was Paul Graham using playback on Stypi

No, it was actually EtherPad. The link to it obviously does not work, unfortunately.

Actually, via the link, you can see that pg was using Stypi (I too thought it was EtherPad…). The link from the post works: https://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences

Edit: Okay, I was wrong. It was originally Etherpad: http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html

FWIW, here is the HN link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336

Great. Now I'll never get my collaborative vim plugin :-(

Congrats guys! Seriously awesome to see you acquired.

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