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Show HN: Torchpad – The simplest way to make a wiki
- Quiark 12y agoThe landing page is pretty, but can't try without signup, walking away...
- tonilin 12y agoSorry, we are developing the demo editor. But you can see the example wiki site here: http://markdown.torchpad.com/ http://markdown.torchpad.com/
- prawn 12y agoYou should add some screenshots so people can at least see what you're trying to sell. That's one of the first things I look for with anything like this so I can get a feel for what's being offered. Otherwise maybe it's prematurely on HN if you wanted to get best value for hitting the front page?
- mercurial 12y agoDefinitely needs screenshots. It's nice to say that you can "manage your pages clearly in tree structure" but I'd like to see what it looks like without trying. Also, it definitely needs an "About" page. Who are you people?
- anigbrowl 12y agoJust put a link to this on your landing page. Honestly, I am rarely interested in what the creator of a product wants to tell me about it. I just want a brief description of what it is and why I might want to use it, and pictures. A demo is better again, bit I want to see your product, not read about it.
- imdsm 12y agoWell the problem now is that you've got your publicity before you were ready for it. Now when you do have a demo, your publicity has already been and gone. I like the landing page. It looks good. But without a demo, you're already just-another-startup.
- ronaldx 12y agoI took a chance on signing up even though it was my instinct to run... my reward was the next screen: "We're sorry but something went wrong" That's an immediate double fail on the "simplest way to make a wiki" headline.
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- 64mb 12y agoDemo account: demo@example.com / Pass: torchpad
- bclee 12y agowow, thank you so much :)
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- nomedeplume 12y agoi loved pbwiki until it became pbworks. man that was great. now pbworks is like a $1500 minimum commitment... i understand that they had to pivot, but bleh.. i hate confluence, the most credible alternative. can't use you guys because 1) no data export 2) no pricing information (I don't want a "free" product, I want to pay.) 3) no privacy policy / terms 4) no social proof of credibility (this is probably more important than any of the above)
- tonilin 12y agoTorchpad is based on Git, so it will support git clone in the future. Torchpad is free, but for some advanced features (like custom domain) need to upgrade to premium member. We are working on 3 and 4 now. Thanks for your feedback!
- holoiii 12y agoHeads up, your footer on the signup page looks wonky
- jphallain 12y agoNo demo link on the website. - No Sign Up.
- tonilin 12y agoTry the demo account: demo@example.com / Pass: torchpad
- lclemente 12y agoDo you plan on offering self-hosted setups in the future?
- bclee 12y agoWe don't have the plan for it. But will support https in the near future.
- TTPrograms 12y agoThis or git clone + open source is pretty critical. I want to recommend this to my company, but I can't rely on the longevity of a fresh-out-the-gate startup for storing crucial enterprise knowledge.
- thumma19 12y agoGreat Product. Been looking for something like this in long time.
- mplewis 12y agoDo you guys have a repo? I'd like to see how this works first. I need to know more about the permissions system, specifically.
- bclee 12y agoIt isn't open source. But we will consider for it in the future :)
- crashandburn4 12y agoThat's a +1 from me, I'd love an open-source version for self-hosting. I'd additionally be happy to pay for the "licence to self host" or something silly like that as long as I can see the code somehow (which is a big deal for me).
- yeukhon 12y agoWhen I do the search I see "✓" in the query string. http://www.torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/demo/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=hello http://www.torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/demo/search?utf8=%E2... That's my first time ever see such in query string!
- imurray 12y agoWhen I'm forced to put things into wikis or content management systems, I usually edit text in my favourite text editor (via the "It's all Text" extension or similar). Unfortunately the javascript-based editor in this wiki is too clever for that extension to work. Fortunately a dance involving Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, edit elsewhere and copy back, and Ctrl-v does work. So I guess I wouldn't find it too annoying if I had to use this thing :-). Direct access to the git repository would be nice though.
- crashandburn4 12y agoYou're right, same with edit-with-emacs on chrome. Shame, the editor looks nice but I definitely wouldn't want to give up my own editor functions for it.
- baldfat 12y agoNow if this was tied to something like a personal Github page I could then just push my changes within my own text editor and shell. Now that would be nice.
- unlimitedlife 12y agoReally Goooooood!!
- starf 12y agorenamed the account, made a new page, tried to publish: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 (Bad Request) http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_status/Ontwikkeling+en+Ondersteuning http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_... PATCH http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_status/Ontwikkeling+en+Ondersteuning http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_... 400 (Bad Request) workspace-ae3672136b7c324f491a92f2d662ce00.js:3
- drcongo 12y agoNice work. I can see myself using this once you have https switched on.
- nicpottier 12y agoNice MVP. I like the idea of using git behind it, that is novel and makes 'owning' the data easy. Could be the killer feature. Other comments: - what is with the speckled grey textured background? Oy, are we back in 1997? Terrible! - if I actually used this, I'd want to brand the page a bit to make it look how I want, I didn't see any template to edit. - multiple owners and having users there is very cool, as is logging in via github. (and automatically claiming the subdomain off the github user) Anyways, keep it up, I think there is demand for a reasonably priced wiki for sure.
- bclee 12y agoThank you. We'll make the background better, and will support custom theme(or custom CSS) in the future.
- jamessb 12y agoThe idea of a wiki using a Git back-end is certainly not novel: Gollum: https://github.com/gollum/gollum https://github.com/gollum/gollum Gitit: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.1.1 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.1.1 Git-wiki: https://github.com/sr/git-wiki https://github.com/sr/git-wiki WiGit: http://el-tramo.be/wigit/ http://el-tramo.be/wigit/ etc.
- dynjo 12y agoAlso try http://slimwiki.com http://slimwiki.com
- ch8908 12y agoPretty cool!, landing page is so amazing <3
- michaelmior 12y agoReally like the syntax highlighting in the Markdown editor! Is this an open source lib, or something custom?
- tonilin 12y agoHello, It's an open source lib called http://codemirror.net/ http://codemirror.net/ But we add a lot of custom features on it.
- robbiep 12y agoTorchpad is based on Git. You can track any changes. In the future, Torchpad allows you to download the git repository for backup. It's either in the future or it's in the present. I know it's marketing speak but if you want to appeal to the large number of people who are pedants of the English language it would be better to use one tense throughout Otherwise, nice concept! Look forward to taking it for a test run
- mercurial 12y agoJudging from the front page, I don't think English is the native language of the developers.
- khaki54 12y agoWhy do I have to sign up to see anything? Please refer to the earlier "stop punishing your users" post
- ymow 12y agogreat
- legna 12y agoThanks for great product. this is exactly what i've been looking for. but when i use chinese or korean words, last character always disappear. maybe you didnt consider 2-byte words. check it, plz
- tonilin 12y agoTorchpad now supports HTTPS!