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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Not to mention some jurisdictions requiring a privacy policy, like California.

http://www.faqt.co/terms-of-service.html may be enough?

Nope. Has to be linked from the homepage, among other requirements.

http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=...

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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How can something which is _personal_ and supposed to be _lightweigth_ a web site? Do i understand right that my data is hosted on their servers? Oh well...

Exactly what excited and then disappointed me. It's a great idea, but I think making it a service will make some people uncomfortable with natural use cases (ex: diary?) for a tool like this. I have been working on something (probably simpler than, but similar) like this that would be self-hosted, mostly because there's a lot of stuff I didn't want to store on Trello or other "cloud" knowledgebase tools. The markdown editing view from the product page is almost exactly what I was aiming for, so I really like it :)

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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This looks really nice. A small suggestion: Put a video, demo, screenshots or tour on the homepage. I found it kind of hard to visualize how the product actually looks and works from the information you have on your homepage.

And a (well-meaning) question: why would I use this over say trello, or google docs?

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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How can something which is _personal_ and supposed to be _lightweigth_ a web site? Do i understand right that my data is hosted on their servers? Oh well...

Exactly what excited and then disappointed me. It's a great idea, but I think making it a service will make some people uncomfortable with natural use cases (ex: diary?) for a tool like this. I have been working on something (probably simpler than, but similar) like this that would be self-hosted, mostly because there's a lot of stuff I didn't want to store on Trello or other "cloud" knowledgebase tools. The markdown…

Honestly I'm not even comfortable with my work interactions being stored on Slack. I would never use a service like this for personal info.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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This is great! A boss at an old job used to track little nuggets of information in a Word Doc he called his "Master" file. It had everything from bugs he had discovered with rare microcontrollers, to short reviews of meals he ordered at restaurants. (The idea behind the meals reviews is that the next time he went to the restaurant, he could look up what he had last time and decide if he wanted to have it again, or tr…

That's exactly what I did that led to this--a master google document that quickly became impossible to use or maintain. I wrote a quick blog post about it: http://blog.faqt.co/post/121242652146/a-note-app-to-replace-...

Well, consider me a user. Is this a side-project for you, or are you going to build a company around it? Naturally, I'd like to know that if I enter my data in here, I'll be able to export a copy of it in the unfortunate event that you have to shut down the service.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want).

A couple of questions :

- do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts"

- do you have a search function ? How does it work ?

- Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ?

- any way to export the raw data ?

- any plan of an API otherwise ?

- like other have mentioned, it's a bit of a touchy area, I'm fine with hosting it if it means I can access it from anywhere and I know my data is not sold some way or some other, but my 3nd point would be at least one thing to worry less if it would ever go down. Which leads me on my last point : What's your business model ?

PS: Anyone else @HN that knows of something similar ? (apart from evernote)

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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly what I did that led to this--a master google document that quickly became impossible to use or maintain. I wrote a quick blog post about it: http://blog.faqt.co/post/121242652146/a-note-app-to-replace-...

Well, consider me a user. Is this a side-project for you, or are you going to build a company around it? Naturally, I'd like to know that if I enter my data in here, I'll be able to export a copy of it in the unfortunate event that you have to shut down the service.

Thanks, we're hoping to build something lasting, but that's a fair question. A group of my co-workers, friends, and family use it everyday, and the last thing we'd do is disrespect that trust. I use the site everyday for my own work, and if we ever have to cease service, be sure that we'd have a free export function. It's an MVP right now, so there's plenty of things we'd like to add. Also feel free to reach out to us directly at hello@faqt.co
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