Why not just build an editor that works off git? Then you could abstract it from the user and leverage all the existing ways of sharing text like github and bitbucket.
"But even as a developer it’s full of headaches." is also just plain not true.
"But even as a developer it’s full of headaches." is also just plain not true.
Non programming types use the gui and programming types can directly interact with the repo.
See (super early version) here: https://github.com/yoavram/markx
Text editors is new hip. Saw ten launch the past few weeks. Before everyone made todo lists apps.
Having that Bijan quote for social proof also rubs me the wrong way. Startuping is more insidery politics these days.
OP's statement is a subjective assessment. It's neither true nor false.