Miki – A lightweight wiki for team documentation

Hi, HN! David here from Mimix. This week my co-founder Rom and I launched Test Drive which is a really cool way to try our product without a signup or credit card. (We found those were inhibiting conversions.)

Test Drive creates a full version of our product and launches it in 6 seconds for the user to try. Users can edit content and play with all the admin tools. Every instance is custom so people don't see each others' content or vandalize stuff.

The product we're offering for "test driving" is Miki, our lightweight alternative to Notion and Confluence. Miki is a wiki for team documentation that's meant to be edited and read by many people -- as opposed to note taking tools that are just for you.

With tons of flexibility and granular controls, Miki is designed to let you keep private documentation and public-facing stuff on the same site, with the same look.

Check it out and let us know what you think. We're grateful for the eyeballs and the feedback!

Thanks in advance, -- D

Hi everyone, co-founder here. I’d like to know about your experience in using Test Drive. If you’re curious about how we did it, ask us here!

My feedback was that I could not find an example, with a sidebar on mobile at all. There was a hamburger button on the bottom, but it just pulled up a menu for marketing. For example, the user guide appeared to be 1 page, no menu/table of contents at all on mobile?

For me, good documentation consists of a good, clear menu organized like a table of contents, and good representation of information. For me, either your examples don't show it well, or you don't have a menu at all. Best of luck, we use notion, but IMO it's stupidly expensive.

Ouch! We had that bug in early testing and thought it was fixed. Hit it once more from the home page if you would and we'll look into it. Thanks for letting me know.

Great question! Underneath, we built on Wiki.js. We added all the management features which we call MCenter, like changing the contents of a live instance remotely and spinning up instances on demand.

Miki is our MVP to deploy our MSL[0] technology that adds fact checking and fact correction to text as you type. Soon, we'll be adding those features to Miki.

[0] https://nebula.mimix.io/msl/specs