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The Slate rich text editor for React is, IMO, the best designed rich text editor with the exception of one major failing, it doesn't support Android. My company spent CAD $50K developing Android support for the previous version of Slate with the hope that the community would take it up which I completed and which we contributed for free. This was after it was one of the most popular outstanding GitHub issues for 2 years. Unfortunately, several months later the creator of Slate did a major (and really great and probably necessary) rewrite but it removed Android support and it's non-trivial to put Android support back in and that's a big cost for my company (which didn't even get a chance to use that version of Slate yet) to burden alone. I proposed a paid plugin which many were in support of, but after receiving many requests for a sponsored model and a user committing
Why it failed
The Slate rich text editor for React is, IMO, the best designed rich text editor with the exception of one major failing, it doesn't support Android. My company spent CAD $50K developing Android support for the previous version of Slate with the hope that the community would
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- thesunny
- Ended
- 2020
- Source
- hackernews