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