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Im looking into building a research collaboration platform, would like it to be like a google drive with markdown/latex.

Does that sound something appealing to work in a web document, instead of white boarding?




There are plenty of text based collaboration platforms, like Overleaf or Google/Microsoft docs etc, and they work well.

They do not replicate how scientists actually work in person. Text is often the last step, after much free form work on whiteboards and paper. That is what is missing from the market right now.


Overleaf provides collaborative LaTeX [0]

[0] https://www.overleaf.com/


last time I used it, it didn't play well with simultaneous editing




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