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Re:Ask HN: YC S10 startup wants your opinions about wikis by ErrantX on Friday May 14, 2010 @05:20AM (#1346924)
There are currently (in my mind) two commercially viable options in the "wiki" style arena.

Firstly a mashup of a wiki and Etherpad. So you can browse the wiki as normal - but when it comes to editing you get an Etherpad style interface to allow collaborative editing.

Secondly (and there is a big business here if you get it right) is document management storage. Everything has to be versioned and audited now to meet ISO standard. A server that would accept uploaded word, excel etc. documents, let you edit them and create new ones would be killer, you could track versions automatically and place it prominently in the document as well as maintain an audit of edits. Another wiki aspect would come in in terms of discussing the documents (like a talk page) which is massively useful.

Re:Ask HN: YC S10 startup wants your opinions about wikis by moe on Friday May 14, 2010 @05:40AM (#1346941)
So you can browse the wiki as normal - but when it comes to editing you get an Etherpad style interface to allow collaborative editing.

Just my 2 cents but I strongly disagree with that. "Realtime" collaborative editing is a very, very small niche. Think about it, how often do you need or want that?

Secondly (and there is a big business here if you get it right) is document management storage.

With this one I agree. Equally strongly. ;-)

Re:Ask HN: YC S10 startup wants your opinions about wikis by ErrantX on Friday May 14, 2010 @05:43AM (#1346944)
Fair point. Although I have found many aspects of Etherpad to be incredibly useful (and we use and installation of it internally at work now for speccing work) - with some work it could be the "next big thing"