Aldine
Self-hosted LaTeX editor where every paper is a git repo
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Aldine is an open-source Overleaf alternative you run on your own server. Co-authors write LaTeX together in the browser. Every project is a real git repo with branches and sync to GitHub, GitLab or Gitea. Zotero built in. Two containers, AGPL, no paid plan.
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PH · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Writing
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Partial A basic web code editor is easy, but real-time collaborative LaTeX editing backed by live bidirectional Git syncing, native LaTeX distribution compilation, and Zotero integration requires intricate systems plumbing.
What it would actually take: The system requires operational transformation or CRDTs (e.g., Yjs) paired with an embedded code editor (Monaco/CodeMirror), tightly coupled to an internal libgit2 or git subprocess engine that maps document state to real Git commits and branches. The backend must manage isolated sandboxed Docker containers running full TeX Live distributions to compile PDFs securely on file changes while managing bi-directional upstream sync with external Git remotes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 34 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 35 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.
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