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by alexcabrera 5348 days ago
We're hoping to target technical writers from the onset as they'll be the ones most comfortable with plain text and formatting using Markdown. Hopefully we can then leverage that momentum to bring in other writers.

Any other genres you can think of that might be a good fit?
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stuntgoat 5347 days ago
What about publishers of non-text?

- images

- datasets ( think scientists )

- music/video

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alexcabrera 5347 days ago
The datasets is a really interesting concept. Maybe SQLite database support? It would need to be some sort of single file database. Then you just need to figure out how to run queries on that data.

We want to do syncing of images, video, and audio. It would be nice to be able to construct a well designed page by dropping assets (text files, images, other media) into a directory in Dropbox and having Droptype automagically arrange those items.

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