We're Kivo (YC S13) building Git for documents. www.kivo.com - would love to chat more.

This is extremely interesting and directly solves a major pain point for me. I've registered and I am going to give this a try once your Mac beta is out.

Curious why PPT first? I'd have thought a bigger issue was with Word docs. I guess that has its own track changes thing, but it's still not got anything approaching version control.

I imagine that one of their main target use cases is collaboratively editing slide decks, or something similar. I recall when our company had some major event last year, our exec team had over a hundred iterations of their slide deck.

edit: Their blog [1] notes that the reason is to let them focus on executing one well-defined thing WELL. Seems like a good idea.

  If we’re going to achieve these goals, we need to be 
  super focused. Which is why our first version is 
  specific in its scope: Kivo 1.0 is an Office plugin 
  which works with PowerPoint on Windows.

Kivo guys: what a great presentation, and clear explanation of what you feel is lacking in the space.

1: http://kivo.com/blog/

I figured there was a narrow focus at this point: it makes perfect sense. I was just wondering why that particular focus. Having thought on it some more, it looks like a clever strategy: the Word case has a half-solution already, with Track Changes and numbered file versions. In Powerpoint, there's simply no such thing.

I wish the Kivo team every success.

Thanks guys for your very kind words. Feel free to reach out to me on zefi[at]kivo.com with any questions or comments.