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I think it's important to share the context behind this project:

I work on the Data team of an acquired startup, working a lot with business/product people. We communicate a lot through internal chat (Hipchat!) and get a lot of requests for adhoc data.

We (the data people) would then run these quick queries, export the results and send over to them in email (CSV).

I find this process very cumbersome, as they'd have to open their email, download the CSV and load them into Excel to be able to see them. Sometimes it's just a small table, and doing this is really inefficient.

That's why we made ShareCSV: They (Product/Marketing/Business) just get a link to click, and most of the time they'll see the numbers they need without having to download anything (and having Excel/OpenOffice to open them).

I showed this to ##math and the ops decided to make TexPaste the official pastebin instead of Mathbin: http://i.imgur.com/hk9fPZV.png

Do you mean exporting the entire text to image or just the equation parts?

Love the idea of Twitter for Mathematicians.

Was thinking about the feedback thing this morning actually - and I think that would be the very first feature to add (after work)

Thanks and noted. That's a div float size issue.

That would be slightly complicated, but maybe the alternative is if you select an expression and click on some 1-variable function then we'll use the expression instead of the generic 'x'.

Thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'm really happy that you find it useful. I have noted your feedback and will work through it.

> students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not be the target audience of your project and so if any of my comments are not appropriate, please disregard them.

These are actually the perfect audience for the project. You see, the main thing that this tool offers is _convenience_, which is much appreciated by the LaTeX beginners thanks to its steep learning curve and complicated software setups. So please do share it with your students, I hope this helps them one way or another :)

By the way, I've got a proper domain for it: www.texpaste.com

Haven't really thought about it, but yeah why not! I'd love some help, especially with the front end.

Edit: Sorry I close it down. Realized that there's some bit of JS code that's contributed by a friend, so I need to check and ask for his permission first. I'll contact you personally to seek for your help :) Thank you again!

Thank you! Or you could share it with your university juniors ;)

Those revisions and comments features are nice suggestions, though I really want to see exactly what features are needed for users to use this _regularly_.

Actually the crowd has been pretty encouraging and supportive. I'm really surprised and didn't expect the response to be this positive.

That's what I have in mind too. This would be so much easier for Latex beginners to pick up latex!

Thank you for going the extra mile.

On a seperate note, I'm surprised that people actually try it on the https version (or be extra careful and manually add the https).

Thank you, really good feedback.

That would be nice suggestion. Though I'm trying to see what would people use this for before adding any extra feature. I envision it would be used in university for students to share math notes/proofs. We'll see.

Thanks for the report. Will be working on it!

"When I go to conferences about design I see a lot of declarative knowledge."

It's because he went to design CONFERENCE, not design WORKSHOP. The nature of conference speech is so much different from workshop.

Have you been able to follow these pieces of advice you gave nowadays, or just a reflection on your 8-year ago?