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Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki

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The landing page is pretty, but can't try without signup, walking away...

Sorry, we are developing the demo editor. But you can see the example wiki site here: http://markdown.torchpad.com/

Well the problem now is that you've got your publicity before you were ready for it. Now when you do have a demo, your publicity has already been and gone.

I like the landing page. It looks good. But without a demo, you're already just-another-startup.

Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki

#24
When I'm forced to put things into wikis or content management systems, I usually edit text in my favourite text editor (via the "It's all Text" extension or similar). Unfortunately the javascript-based editor in this wiki is too clever for that extension to work. Fortunately a dance involving Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, edit elsewhere and copy back, and Ctrl-v does work. So I guess I wouldn't find it too annoying if I had to use this thing :-). Direct access to the git repository would be nice though.

Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki

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Do you plan on offering self-hosted setups in the future?

We don't have the plan for it. But will support https in the near future.

This or git clone + open source is pretty critical. I want to recommend this to my company, but I can't rely on the longevity of a fresh-out-the-gate startup for storing crucial enterprise knowledge.

Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki

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renamed the account, made a new page, tried to publish: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 (Bad Request) http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_... PATCH http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_... 400 (Bad Request) workspace-ae3672136b7c324f491a92f2d662ce00.js:3

Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki

#29
Nice MVP. I like the idea of using git behind it, that is novel and makes 'owning' the data easy. Could be the killer feature.

Other comments: - what is with the speckled grey textured background? Oy, are we back in 1997? Terrible!

- if I actually used this, I'd want to brand the page a bit to make it look how I want, I didn't see any template to edit.

- multiple owners and having users there is very cool, as is logging in via github. (and automatically claiming the subdomain off the github user)

Anyways, keep it up, I think there is demand for a reasonably priced wiki for sure.

Re: Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki

#30

Nice MVP. I like the idea of using git behind it, that is novel and makes 'owning' the data easy. Could be the killer feature. Other comments: - what is with the speckled grey textured background? Oy, are we back in 1997? Terrible! - if I actually used this, I'd want to brand the page a bit to make it look how I want, I didn't see any template to edit. - multiple owners and having users there is very cool, as is logg…

Thank you.

We'll make the background better, and will support custom theme(or custom CSS) in the future.

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