Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

Re:Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki by proexploit on Monday December 17, 2012 @12:52PM (#4933374)

This looks great and I love the ease of use, however I just can't use it yet. I could spend a lot of time putting info into this but there's no question if it will be gone any day. For me to trust it enough to use it, I either need to be able to install it to my own server or want to pay for it.

You should really add a minimal homepage with an email signup as well if you intend to work on this more. The product is self explanatory so I don't need marketing text but I'd love to be able to be notified if you come out with accounts, open-source it, add a paid plan or allow installs to my server.

All in all, great work and congrats on shipping something!

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Re:Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki by tmorgan on Monday December 17, 2012 @01:38PM (#4933588)

Oh and we just added a link to an email signup in the text:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdGcHE...

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Re:Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki by akrymski on Monday December 17, 2012 @01:00PM (#4933423)

Thanks, we've built it for ourselves and wanted to see if anyone else would be interested first. Would happily add accounts and charge a small subscription fee for it. How many dollars per month would it be worth to you?)

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Re:Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki by bradleyland on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:06PM (#4933762)

I'm interested in it as a library or an open source tool that I can integrate, but as a paid product, I believe it falls a little bit short of an MVP.

What's unique about what you have here is the realtime collaborative editing. We use NestaCMS (which also understands Markdown) hooked up to a Dropbox folder in a few places. The functionality is similar, but there's no in-page editor, and we can't collaborate in real time.

Both of those things have value to me, but I have serious reservations about jumping on to a wiki product that I can't control. Documentation is a complete pain in the ass. When I put time in to it, I need to feel 100% confident that I won't have to abandon it at a future date; either because I run up against a feature ceiling, or because you disappear. And if I do have to leave, I need to be able to get my information out of the system.

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Re:Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki by proexploit on Monday December 17, 2012 @03:33PM (#4934188)

That's tough to answer (pricing is tough!). As a single consumer, not much (e.g. under $20/month). As a business, potentially a lot more. If you're actually marketing it to enterprise or at least company teams, they're budget (and features they'd require) are different.

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