Doctant

Simplify documentation so your whole team can create & share

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Simplify documentation so your whole team can create & share

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StartupCTO.io 22 – Jud Valeski

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?

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11yr ago

Doctant

Maker

@danny_nav @miles_matthias Pretty much everything else is written in Go and React.

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11yr ago

StartupCTO.io 22 – Jud Valeski

@danny_nav thanks for the response! I think I've seen that medium editor project before, but had forgotten about it. Nice work!

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11yr ago

Pitch

Interesting product - do you guys support Markdown? I would love to port over some existing API documentation we have.

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11yr ago

Doctant

Maker

@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. info [at] doctant [dot] com

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11yr ago

Will you open source this awesome thing? My company will use it if they can set up on their own server.

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11yr ago

Airtable

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?

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11yr ago

Doctant

Maker

@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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11yr ago

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)?

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11yr ago

Heap

This looks really nice, but I'm curious what you're bringing to the table that readme.io doesn't already?

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11yr ago

Doctant

Maker

@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.

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11yr ago

Heap

@travjones0 I beta tested Readme, but I'll check out Docant as well to be thorough!

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11yr ago

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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11yr ago

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