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Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by X-Istence »

kofman wrote: post #4
jff wrote: post #3

Unfortunate that they don't offer the software itself; I could use this at work, but I don't think we'd be allowed to use it on an external server.

If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.

Confluence is the wiki we use where I work and I absolutely hate it (ending tags is like you are opening a tag, so {bold}this would be bold{bold} (example, I don't remember any tags off the top of my head).

If something better came along that helped us rather than slowed us down it would be fantastic.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by kofman »

AdamGibbins wrote: post #8

Why does this request access to my Google Contacts when signing in using my Google Account? No thanks.

We do it in order to let you auto-complete your contact's names in order to invite them to pads. We absolutely never email your contacts unless you explicitly invite someone. That said we understand your concern and hence offer the regular email sign-in option.

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by jdp23 »

X-Istence wrote: post #11
kofman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.

Confluence is the wiki we use where I work and I absolutely hate it (ending tags is like you are opening a tag, so {bold}this would be bold{bold} (example, I don't remember any tags off the top of my head). If something better came along that helped us rather than slowed us down it would be fantastic.

I checked out Confluence earlier this year and wasn't too impressed at all. So agreed, it would be great for something better to come along!

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by grusk »

I really like the execution of this. It's like the Quick Notes web extension, however my beef with Quick Notes app is that I've lost some notes because I didn't realize that there might be a maximum character limit (not sure if there is or if my notes got wiped some other way). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpml...

Could you make this into a Chrome web app, please?

Re: Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

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Post by michaelw »

Thank you for making this. I really like it.

A long time ago in a startup far far away a friend and I built something like this. Ours was nowhere near as elegant. We would look for CamelCaseWords to kick off the autocomplete but your use of @ is much better.

Delightful moments: pasting an image url embeds the image. Consider letting me backspace the image to get back to the url.

The multi-user edit seemed very smooth. Better than collabedit to this user.

The task list is nice. I'd love to have a title to the task list and be able to query for and surface all task lists across pages.

Please consider supporting #hashtags if only so you can show a tag cloud. The built-in search is great.

I couldn't figure out how to link to a person.

Finally, for users who login with their own email address, please consider letting them in right away. At most have the confirmation step be something they can complete later. Eliminate friction at every turn.

All in all a really nice product.

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