[bambax]

Many others have said it already, but I'll say it again:

1. You have a fantastic product

2. Many potential users won't accept to have their documents stored "in the cloud" (even though those same users share those same documents by email with zero security, all the time)

3. Offer a stand alone version and sell a licence (or a rent, think the former Google Search Appliance)

4. Charge an arm and a leg for it -- think Oracle pricing

5. Get rich!

[flamtap]

Agreed on all points. This has law firms written all over it.

[kobeya]

Law firms that will happily pay hundreds or thousands of dollars per seat. OP, you're selling yourself short.

[TickleSteve]

6. Realise that you've recreated a feature that already exists natively in word... Doh!

[bambax]

Not the OP, but I really don't think it does.

[TickleSteve]

Word has native diff-ing and 3-way merging. version control systems can call this as their diff tool.

[asr]

The fact word offers a competing feature does not mean this is not a pain point people would pay money for.

Have you tried to use Word's features as part of a mid-size team to manage a complicated document being edited by multiple users? Word's merge is crap.

My old law firm used version control software that appeared to be straight from 1991. So there's plenty of room to solve real problems here.

OP, I wish you the best of luck. But I concur with others, the use case for this product I see is for a team or company to learn to use it internally, not for a bunch of lawyers to use it across firms. So, keep the free tier to attract people who are willing to use it on their own (or in case someone can convince those outside their organization to sign up in order to participate on projects), and then increase pricing to any sort of team.

Also, I'm sure my firm could never have used a cloud-based solution, regardless of security, because we probably had clients who would not allow their information to be stored in the cloud.

Also, because I can speak to lawyers, the diffing needs to be excellent and it needs to be easy to create and share redlines in the ways lawyers are used to (send as a word doc/PDF, etc.). Perhaps this is already there, I'm excited to check it out.