papermark VS shadcn/ui

Simple AI assistant for documents made open source

Can be used for your docs or also for shared documents.

It is currently a part of Papermark, open source Docsend alternative for sharing docs quickly and getting analytics on each page.

Thinking on investing more time in it, and building more advanced work with many docs.

Any contributors are welcome here https://github.com/mfts/papermark

Caveat: this serverless implementation only works with files smaller than 4MB. If you need to upload larger files, you'll want to use a client-side upload (see more on GitHub).

Papermark has recently been getting a lot of love from the community, especially for its clean design and intuitive interface. Although it might look simple from the outside, this app packs a lot of functionalities that make everything work smoothly: file upload, email sending, built-in analytics, and custom domains…

I would be grateful if you could give us a star! Don't forget to share your thoughts in the comments section ❤️ https://github.com/mfts/papermark

Papermark - Open Source Alternative to Docsend

Check out the code and setup: https://github.com/mfts/papermark and how to get started: https://www.papermark.io/share-notion-page

Hi HN! We’re Marc and Iuliia from Papermark (https://papermark.io). We're building an open-source, modern document sharing platform with real-time engagement analytics and 100% customization.

It all started as a tweet [1] and led to our launch on Product Hunt [2] last month. We crossed over 1000 stars and over 10 contributors on GitHub (https://github.com/mfts/papermark).

Incumbents, like DocSend, founded in the early 2010s have been acquired already and just don't innovate anymore. Their main priority is enterprise clients.

As founders and developers ourselves we always felt that our needs are not being served. We struggle to get actionable insights when sending pitch decks to investors or sales proposals to customers. We are missing the flexibility and integrations with our existing applications and tech stack.

That’s why we are building Papermark.

Our bigger vision

A developer-friendly document sharing platform doesn’t exist yet! We believe that document analytics should be available to anyone that is creating and sharing documents.

- Rich observability: Don’t get left in the dark when sharing a document. Papermark will provide full transparency by exposing all document-related events through webhooks.

Check out the beautiful UI crafted by ShadCN over at the deployed version of our app — sign in with Google and get some sweet cards! Plus, the entire project is open source. Grab the code from GitHub.

It’s Headless so you can use it with whatever UI components you have in your project and as with everything in TanStack it’s type-safe! In this example we'll use components from shadcn/ui to build the form but you can really make it work with any UI library.

Shadcn UI

You can access shadcn/UI using the following links. Official Site Github Repo

I build an Angular or React app or smart component that uses the store in an Nx monorepo. I use the Shadcn UI in React apps, and the Shadcn-based spartan/ui in Angular apps, so I can use almost the same app architecture both in Angular and React.

Finally, for our front end, we’re going to be pairing Next.js with the great combination of TailwindCSS and shadcn/ui so we can focus on building the functionality of the app and let them handle making it look awesome!

Shadcn/ui: I've never tried it before but have always wanted to switch from MaterialUI

Honestly the ergonomics of heavily customizable generic component libraries aren't great. Copy and pasting a simple component to make the specific customizations you want helps reduce JS ecosystem churn and dependency pain. Popularity of libraries like shadcn/ui [1] are good acknowledgements of that.

[1] https://ui.shadcn.com/

shadcn/ui