I love when people try to improve on the WSYIWYG editor because markdown isn't approachable for non-technical people (as much as we would like it to be).
I'm just confused about why this is specific to documentation. When I looked at your page, I thought it was a blogging platform. I don't see very many features that make it specific to documentation, or at least they're not shown on the homepage.
Also, what's the tech behind your text editor? Any open source tools you're using or is it all custom? If it's custom, do you plan on open sourcing or releasing as a service?
@mr_ed Thanks for checking it out, Ed! We're currently working on a markdown import for the very near future. If you feel comfortable sending us html or markdown, we can take care of the migration for you. If not, hang tight.
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Will you open source this awesome thing?
My company will use it if they can set up on their own server.
This looks pretty good. My team is building out documentation, so it comes at the right time. One requirement for us, however, is the ability write collaboratively. Does Doctant support that?
@j_hnshin Thanks for the comment, John! Collaboration will be a feature of doctant in the very near future. It's funny you bring that up because it was one of the main reasons that we started building this out. Hang tight, it's coming. :)
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Interesting start... However, for a documentation creation site, I don't see any documentation for the site. How do you publish private vs. public? How do you point your domain name to this site (dns, cname, etc)?
@radiofreejohn We actually started building Doctant before we knew Readme.io existed. Readme does allow people to build documentation, but the approach is very different. I recommend that you try Readme (free trial) and Doctant and note the differences.
@travjones0 I beta tested Readme, but I'll check out Docant as well to be thorough!
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This does look great, but have you mentioned anything about future pricing plans? I can't seem to find any information on that, as it seems it's in open beta right now?
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