Ask HN: Review my webapp: memobuild

Hope you won't mind if this is my first post, but I was told this is a good place to get advice for a new web business. So here it is: http://www.memobuild.com

It's basically an editor for large online documents (e.g. documentation, reports, e-books). It follows the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Mean paradigm: authors just need to input the contents in a structured way, the layout and design are automatically taken care of by the application. There are some e-learning features too. The app is powered by Google App Engine / python, and hopefully it can scale nicely.

Please have a look and let me know what you think.

The next step will be to get in the Google Apps Marketplace to reach out to businesses and schools. Meanwhile I'm trying to get some early adopters. I plan to contact bloggers discussing learning technologies. Any other idea on where to concentrate my marketing efforts?

http://help.memobuild.com/user-guide/creating-document

all the links on the left above "Using the Drafts folder" don't work. I'm using Chrome 6.0.472.53 on Linux.

Your interface is clean and easy to understand. The simple content section on the left along with easy to understand CMS controls are exceptionally well done.

This feels like part of a larger product. Learning materials take hundreds of hours to prepare and I wouldn't trust my time with your new product. Not that it isn't well created, just that I don't have any control over the hosting or storage and I don't see an easy way for me to backup or duplicate content on more trustworthy platforms such as Google Docs or even good old Word.

Your application may be a good add-on for a small publisher. A publisher could offer your product (branded as their own) to extend their texts online and keep them up-to-date.

I could see the advantage to this for either a business (in sort of a Wiki setup) or a school, however without a real direction, it's a bit difficult for me and your potential customers to see.

Overall, I really like this. I wish that it was integrated into a full LMS and that I could quickly and easily spin my content into texts.

Which python framework did you use?

Small "bug": when you navigate to the login page [1], there's no link to go back to the home page or anywhere else but the TOS.

[1] http://www.memobuild.com/login

http://www.memobuild.com/_ah/openid_verify?continue=http://w...