StackOverflow for private teams in beta
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StackOverflow for private teams in beta
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Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#2I had a side project which was basically this (at least this was my [company] for [x] summary of the project) a couple of years ago. I always wondered why StackOverflow weren't doing it, and after years of wondering this I just built it myself.
I tried to publicise it a bit (not a lot, in fairness) and didn't generate much buzz. I even speculatively applied to YC with it, with the beta written and running, and got no call for an interview even. After that I lost enthusiasm for the idea, and moved on to other things. Seeing this has reminded me of it.
What do people think of this? Useful product? Would you pay for it?
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#3I had a side project which was basically this (at least this was my [company] for [x] summary of the project) a couple of years ago. I always wondered why StackOverflow weren't doing it, and after years of wondering this I just built it myself. I tried to publicise it a bit (not a lot, in fairness) and didn't generate much buzz. I even speculatively applied to YC with it, with the beta written and running, and got no…
I think it's very cool, especially for large teams at big companies, but I'm not sure I can see my company using it. They seem to prefer home-grown solutions for lessons learned and other knowledge bases, because there is inevitably some special feature that someone considers necessary.
Then, of course, you end up with huge exported spreadsheets in every single workflow. sigh
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#4This has already existed in the form of Stack Overflow Enterprise [1]. One major difference is that the company I was at managed and maintained their instance of Stack Overflow (it involved a lot of work). I wonder what else is different (or maybe this is just a replacement for Enterprise?)
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#5This has already existed in the form of Stack Overflow Enterprise [1]. One major difference is that the company I was at managed and maintained their instance of Stack Overflow (it involved a lot of work). I wonder what else is different (or maybe this is just a replacement for Enterprise?) [1] https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/enterprise
When was this launched?
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#6Can this do what SharePoint and private wikis can't? My team has tried both with varying degrees of success. In my experience it's always just "easier" for people to pester those who should know the answers.
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#7There's a viable privately hosted alternative with Atlassian's "Questions for Confluence" (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/questions)
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#8I had a side project which was basically this (at least this was my [company] for [x] summary of the project) a couple of years ago. I always wondered why StackOverflow weren't doing it, and after years of wondering this I just built it myself. I tried to publicise it a bit (not a lot, in fairness) and didn't generate much buzz. I even speculatively applied to YC with it, with the beta written and running, and got no…
It's a useful product. I'm actually surprised that the state of Stack Overflow clones isn't better. Although much of the value of SO comes from its knowledge base, the UI and organization and administration is nice to have pre-built. When I was looking around the top choices among open source/free were askbot (https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel) and osqa (https://github.com/dzone/osqa). There was also a plug-in for Confluence (Questions) and Answerhub (seemed to be the pro/paid version of OSQA). But none of them were as nice as stack overflow, which was surprising to me.
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#9Can this do what SharePoint and private wikis can't? My team has tried both with varying degrees of success. In my experience it's always just "easier" for people to pester those who should know the answers.
Of course. You need to teach this with culture.
Come over and ask me something I know is in the wikki? Let's sit down and search the wikki together. No match? Then let's type up a result together and enter it for future use.
You can't fix a bad process with a magic app, but a magic app can help a process work much better.
Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta
#10Can this do what SharePoint and private wikis can't? My team has tried both with varying degrees of success. In my experience it's always just "easier" for people to pester those who should know the answers.
I mean probably not, unless you can tag people to alert them somehow.