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viewer.js

A viewer for documents converted with the Box View API

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
334GitHub stars
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What it is

A viewer for documents converted with the Box View API

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-02-01 19:17:28 UTC to 2015-04-01 15:43:03 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 262015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 232015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 30

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 262015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 22015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 92015-02-09 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 162015-02-16 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 232015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22015-03-02 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 92015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 162015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 232015-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 302015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2015-04-06 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Box - San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA - Full time - Frontend & full stack engineers Crocodoc (YC W10) founder here. When our company was acquired by Box in 2013, we launched a new set of developer APIs on the Box platform for anyone (even those who don't use Box itself) to use for converting documents to HTML. We're now powering apps from LinkedIn to CoTap to the newest version of WebEx. We've also open-sourced one of our biggest projects (https://github.com/box/viewer.js) and are expanding into developer experience as well. We're looking for frontend and full stack engineers to join our close-knit team and help us push the limit of what browsers and mobile devices can do. (Fast, pixel-perfect rendering of documents using just HTML, SVG, and CSS turns out to be really hard!) We're also building out a developer experience team and are look
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ing for someone who is passionate about UX, APIs, and making developer tools easy and fun to use. Drop me a note if you're interested at long@box.com or matt@crocodoc.com
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Box - San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA - Full time - Frontend & full stack engineers Crocodoc (YC W10) founder here. When our company was acquired by Box in 2013, we launched a new set of developer APIs on the Box platform for anyone (even those who don't use Box itself) to use for converting documents to HTML. We're now powering apps from LinkedIn to CoTap to the newest version of WebEx. We've also open-sourced one of our biggest projects (https://github.com/box/viewer.js) and are expanding into developer experience as well. We're looking for frontend and full stack engineers to join our close-knit team and help us push the limit of what browsers and mobile devices can do. (Fast, pixel-perfect rendering of documents using just HTML, SVG, and CSS turns out to be really hard!) We're also building out a developer experience team and are look
Read the rest
ing for someone who is passionate about UX, APIs, and making developer tools easy and fun to use. Drop me a note if you're interested at damico@box.com or ryan@crocodoc.com
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

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