Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever

I really don't like that I have to sign in with Google or Facebook to try it in read/write mode. Read-only mode is not good enough for me to tell if it's something I want to use, and <i></i><i>having</i><i></i> to use Google or Facebook just to <i>try</i> it is a dealbreaker for me, sorry. Which is a shame, because it looks neat.<p>Fix that, then I'd be interested in giving it a try.<p><i></i><i>Edit:</i><i></i> I missed the ability to sign in without Google/Facebook. It was a bit too small to notice. That being said... I signed up and gave it a try anyway, despite my misgivings. It's a neat product.

Thank you for making this. I really like it.<p>A long time ago in a startup far far away a friend and I built something like this. Ours was nowhere near as elegant. We would look for CamelCaseWords to kick off the autocomplete but your use of @ is much better.<p>Delightful moments: pasting an image url embeds the image. Consider letting me backspace the image to get back to the url.<p>The multi-user edit seemed very smooth. Better than collabedit to this user.<p>The task list is nice. I'd love to have a title to the task list and be able to query for and surface all task lists across pages.<p>Please consider supporting #hashtags if only so you can show a tag cloud. The built-in search is great.<p>I couldn't figure out how to link to a person.<p>Finally, for users who login with their own email address, please consider letting them in right away. At most have the confirmation step be something they can complete later. Eliminate friction at every turn.<p>All in all a really nice product.

Unfortunate that they don't offer the software itself; I could use this at work, but I don't think we'd be allowed to use it on an external server.

This is an interesting project, however, as someone who administers several wikis, both public and private I honestly wouldn't give up control of the server side to the cloud ever. The simple reason is data control. I want daily backups of my wiki data. Can I do that with this?<p>Similarly, where's the source?<p>Where's the install for private wikis, such as a company's private internal wiki?<p>Where's the api so I can write plugins?<p>Where are the plugins?<p>What is preventing wiki spammers?<p>Can I theme this for groups?<p>I see that groups are 'private' based on my invitations to them, but how can I be sure this isn't easily compromised?<p>Anyway, this looks interesting, but I don't think it can be used yet for any serious wiki work.

if you look for something similar and opensource, you should have a look at etherpad-lite: <a href="https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite</a>

It looks neat. Why does it want access to my google contacts?

Why does this request access to my Google Contacts when signing in using my Google Account? No thanks.

Very neat. I actually had a similar idea 2 or 3 months ago (although I'm sure this is older than that) to modify Etherpad Lite into a wiki to replace the Dokuwiki we currently use at work. I was going to just build a front-end that managed the documents, though, and only pass it off to Etherpad for the actual editing. This is a much more elegant solution, and the "@" linking is genius!<p>If you were ever considering contributing your modifications back to the community/Etherpad/Etherpad Lite, I would certainly make good use of them. Unfortunately our wiki is a highly integrated component of our custom-built Intranet, so we couldn't make use of a SaaS solution for it. But congrats all the same! I will keep an eye out for potential non-work uses.

People seem to be liking it. What I think they like (at least that's my experience with it) is to see the HN community materialize in real time.<p>Just my 2 cents so that you can try to isolate feedback taking that into account.

Quick note: read-only mode isn't very read-only. Pasting and typing quickly still works.<p>I clicked a checkbox within the page copy, and the entire page suddenly blanked. (It may have just been a coincidence, though.)<p>Otherwise, looks great. :)

I really like the execution of this. It's like the Quick Notes web extension, however my beef with Quick Notes app is that I've lost some notes because I didn't realize that there might be a maximum character limit (not sure if there is or if my notes got wiped some other way). <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpmllgcfadlkankhok" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpml...</a><p>Could you make this into a Chrome web app, please?

With regard to saying "the best wiki ever".<p>I think it's best to show that its the best product (by being the best) rather than to explicitly to say it.

It's nice. But how do I delete my account and my Google contacts that were imported in your database?

Nice, seems like they are taking some of the features of Microsoft OneNote to the web (checkboxes)

This looks very interesting! I hope you guys keep improving it. I really would like something like Google Wave/Etherpad that is robust and is actually being developed.<p>I would happily pay money for something like this if the performance and features can be maintained.

This is nice. I'd love it if I could create a company account, invite my colleagues and then know that only those people can access the pads that we make.<p>Also, ability to download all data as a dump would be nice.

Is it possible to embed a hackpad in a site? I really looked around for an embed-able etherpad that can be easily made available into pages for users to collaboratively note down stuff ...

Some iPad bugs: I can type newlines and backspaces, but no characters. And when I leave the site, my keyboard stays open on whatever site I visit, which is really strange.

I think the best feature of a wiki is that you can edit it anonymously without logging in. I just won't bother contributing to wikis that require logins.

This is really slick! It's the first realtime, WYSIWYG tool I've used that still feels like a Wiki.

Is it based on Etherpad source?

Pricing?

How is it different from EtherPad and hundreds of its clones/instances?

Except for that stubborn 504...