Corilla

Collaborative documentation for software teams.

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Collaborative documentation for software teams.

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Corilla is a collaborative content tool for software teams. Most teams use it for it's original purpose as a documentation tool.

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Nice! We are currently documenting in markdown in a github repo. Collections and modules solve a huge pain for us. The next one is how to handle images (and their source files). Also we're still figuring out a process how to notice when docs get outdated

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9yr ago

Corilla

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@masone thanks for checking out Corilla. There's a lot of interesting discussion about how best to address the topic of content lifecycle, particularly in how it ages. In my experience the answer is usually "poorly", and most enterprise teams bike-shed around the issue as maintenance is poorly understood in terms of the economics. I've tackled this on a few projects. The concept of "what you measure matters" applies here, so even if there's natural or cultural blockers against improving your company docs, you can gain some momentum simply by auditing what's out there. And then running analytics on what content is being consumed. And then bonus points for tracking user journeys, and a special prize if you correlate bounce rates against (the count and cost of) customer support. Having said that, you can probably guess what our roadmap looks like here 😎. The long view is in automation of the techniques and skills that people like us develop in our careers. I spoke at a technical writing meetup recently about the machine learning experiments we've been doing to basically put the "M" into "CMS". We can talk off-list if that's interesting to you. As for images, isn't it frustrating how bad the asset management is in the typical "CMS"? In terms of asset management we've got coverage of that at the moment, but the source file question is another thing entirely. Would love to have a wider conversation about that in the community (as there's the whole filesystem versus repo approach here).

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9yr ago

Looks really great! Who would you say your biggest competitors are?

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9yr ago

Corilla

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@mleonard That's a great question and one that we thought about carefully before we... quit our jobs and went full-time! 😱 Initially we worried about Adobe taking a renewed interest in the plight of the humans it sells technical writing products to, and then we were concerned about the mid-tier companies like Madcap (who are great) and every startup with "content" or "docs" in their marketing. But then we just kept talking to our early users and realised nothing much had changed from when we were forced to build our own solution at Red Hat. I'd actually say that the biggest competition for us is our own community desire to spin up documentation tools 😂. It's easy to stand up a static generator, patch in a VCS and embrace the idea of docs as code. But this is a false economy. Even maintaining this kind of setup for a few hours a month is many times more expensive than the economy of scale that we can achieve as specialists... which is the blessing of the SaaS model.

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9yr ago

Opengeni

@davedri Just wanted to say. Best founder answers on PH this month 🏆

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9yr ago

Corilla

Maker

@eonpilot thanks for the kind words Eon. Coming from an open source culture we find it's best to be as transparent and authentic (and thorough) as possible. We're building for the long-term so anything we can learn and adjust now helps achieve the best product for our users - plus honestly it's just a much better lifestyle. We love this community :)

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9yr ago

Corilla

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A quick thank you to everyone for all your support, questions and feedback. This was our first Product Hunt launch and we're humbled by the experience. And also a little tired, as we've worked hard to keep up with the onboarding and even shipped a few updates based on feedback. Now @nathan404 and I are packing to fly out of Brisbane, Australia, and head to Portland for Write The Docs, and then down to San Francisco. Drop us a line if you're in the hood (as it seems our hunted @stringstory will be). And by the way... https://www.bonjoro.com/g/C7YiJq... 🙏🙌👍🏼💯

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9yr ago

Corilla

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And here's a quick update: Thanks to Product Hunt feedback, we're building a new version of our documentation portal and knowledge base. And doing it... in the open. https://medium.com/corilla-blog/...

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9yr ago

Collabe

Seems like a promising tool for writers, will certainly would like to give it a try.

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9yr ago

Corilla

Maker

@evivekpal Thanks for the kinds words Vivek. Let me know how you get on with the trial, or if you would like to run through a demo some time I can show you the workflow and we can talk about what best fits your projects. I always sneak in a few things I find really exciting too 😉

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9yr ago

Collabe

@davedri sure thing 😀😀👍

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9yr ago

Corkdork

Very cool. Documentation is everything.

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9yr ago

Corilla

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@rueter It's amazing how 💯 this is. We were concerned initially that we were investing our time and energy in building a "technical writing" product in an era of declining techcomms budgets. But we saw almost immediately in our alpha release that documentation is a real challenge to create and manage. And as you say, it there's not docs... there's no product. I wrote something about this recently: https://medium.com/corilla-blog/...

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9yr ago

A Closing Culture

Excited to look into this!

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9yr ago

Corilla

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@joshharcus Thanks Josh. It would be great to hear what you think both as a writer and also get some feedback given your experience on the sales and marketing side. As Corilla is just coming out of beta, we're naturally shifting our focus to improve the onboarding experience and reaching out beyond our community. Let me know any time if you would like a demo to run through the workflow and learn more about what you're working on.

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9yr ago

only the landing page is available, App, Blog, Docs, ... not found

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7yr ago

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