ShareLaTeX

Hi creator here, just got in from a few beers to see on HN which is amazing to see! I've only been coding for about 20+ months or so and this has been my evening/weekend project for the past few months, its a very new site, only out for about 5 weeks now. There are still lots of things to improve but the feedback has been amazing. I am aiming for a fermium model at the moment, deep down I…

I looked into using LaTeX in an online service once but my understanding was that LaTeX is difficult to serve as a service because there are several commands which allow arbitrary code execution. Is this whitelisting some of the syntax? How are they doing that? (btw, if it turns out they aren't please don't comment here about it but instead report it to them at https://www.sharelatex.com/security )

Hey creator of ShareLaTeX here, we didn't post on here (again) but we have been releasing a lot of new stuff since the last time the site was on the home page about 1 year ago to the day. Split view, command auto complete, multiple compilers and history are all done. Spell check, git integration and dropbox sync are just around the corner. The main thing that has happend is merging with http://www.scribtex.com with both of us now working on…

We are using a sharelatex installation at work and so far it's pretty good. But the installation is a nightmare. There is a docker container available but the documentation is pretty scattered across multiple GitHub repo wikis. And when you got it to run with all environment variables, you need to install all latex packages inside the container. So unless you hack your way around it by using an additional volume with a working receive installation, you need to install…