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Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by proexploit »

This looks great and I love the ease of use, however I just can't use it yet. I could spend a lot of time putting info into this but there's no question if it will be gone any day. For me to trust it enough to use it, I either need to be able to install it to my own server or want to pay for it.

You should really add a minimal homepage with an email signup as well if you intend to work on this more. The product is self explanatory so I don't need marketing text but I'd love to be able to be notified if you come out with accounts, open-source it, add a paid plan or allow installs to my server.

All in all, great work and congrats on shipping something!

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by akrymski »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #16

I have a issue with the name. Why not call it markdownwiki instead of enterprise wiki. Immediately I know what your wiki is and does. Good work on the execution though.

Thanks for your feedback. We've built it for ourselves initially, didn't give the name much thought. Will have to see where it goes.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by akrymski »

hvs wrote: post #14

I appreciate what you've done here, but when I hear the words "enterprise wiki" (as your URL implies) and you can't paste MS Word formatted text into it, I feel a disconnect. I'm not saying that is how it should work, or is a feature that I would like, but if you approach an enterprise with this and explained that they would have to use something called Markdown to update it, they would laugh in your face. Most, if n…

Sorry for the URL - admittedly we didn't spend long on it :)

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by bmelton »

2arrs2ells wrote: post #15

Very cool! I was a bit frustrated by not being able to select text when in "view" mode (text selection worked fine in markdown mode - using latest version of Chrome on a mac). Is this a side effect of the iOS shortcuts?

I was fighting against making the same comment, since it's kind of a weird thing that I do when viewing a web page is to repeatedly select the block of text I'm reading.

Whenever people are looking over my shoulder, they always seem annoyed by my doing it, so I figure I'm unique in that regard, but I'm glad somebody pointed it out.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by akrymski »

proexploit wrote: post #21

This looks great and I love the ease of use, however I just can't use it yet. I could spend a lot of time putting info into this but there's no question if it will be gone any day. For me to trust it enough to use it, I either need to be able to install it to my own server or want to pay for it. You should really add a minimal homepage with an email signup as well if you intend to work on this more. The product is se…

Thanks, we've built it for ourselves and wanted to see if anyone else would be interested first. Would happily add accounts and charge a small subscription fee for it. How many dollars per month would it be worth to you?)

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by akrymski »

StavrosK wrote: post #19

Can you enable slashes in keys? It would be nice to get subpages by adding a link to enterprisewiki.co/wiki/myguid/somepage from my wiki. Still secret, but much better for organization, and you can add it with one trivial change.

great idea, will do today

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Post by akrymski »

petekoomen wrote: post #23

This is gorgeous. We've been looking for something like this. I'd use this for our company as soon as you - support google apps authentication - allow us to pay for it (I don't trust free services)

Thanks! How many dollars per month would you pay for something like this?)
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