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by shirai 5752 days ago
Please let us know what you think about our startup.

It's the best of a wiki, a website builder and a book.

We built this in response to our own needs. We needed a way to collaborate and publish but wikis weren't working for us. They were easy, but not easy enough and they are typically too ugly to use as a primary website.

The key innovations for us were:

Snap Editor: Click anywhere on the page and you edit in place. The page "snaps" around the text to let you know that you can edit. Drop dead stupid easy. Table of Contents: In wikis, you end up with orphan pages. In normal website navigation, you are usually limited to only around 5 pages before it gets messy. The table of contents on the right makes sure you never lose a page and that you can organize up to 1000 pages. It is drag and drop all the time.

Site Decorator: Wikis (and many website builders) are ugly. We built a template designer that we know works because even our developers were making good-looking websites.

One thing we aren't sure of is how to sell our product. Is it a new type of wiki? Is it a simple website builder? Curious what you guys think.

2 comments

The snap editor is definitely cool. What is it built in?
We built it using Javascript with the Mootools framework.
Really like it and agree with your wiki point! are you planning to offer ssl and an API? That's all it would take to move from my ugly backpack page
Also do you plan custom domain support? I'd imagine that could be a money earner if you made it exremely simple for customers
Actually, we already have custom domain support built in but we turned off the upgrade feature for now while we figure out pricing. It works though as you can see on this site: http://mominvancouver.com/
What would you like to see as far as the API?
late reply I know, something along the lines of what 37signals offer for their pages api (backpack) would be great! Generally just the ability to post a page - ability to hack up an offline system/ personal backups would be nice!