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Re: I'm Building a GitHub for Writers by jonnathanson on Thursday August 29, 2013 @03:00PM (#6297829)
"And the main attraction for users over, say, Google Docs, is that your changes don't overwrite others'. The fact that your edits create a "branch", that then others can accept/reject/modify/merge, is a vast improvement in creative collaboration."

This.

Version control is a capital-P Pain In The Ass for group writing projects. Anything that improves the version control problem in collaborative writing solves a very real need. Perhaps not a huge TAM at first glance, but a real need nonetheless.

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