Hackpad was a
web-based
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History
In earlier computing models like client-serve ...
collaborative real-time text editor forked from
Etherpad
Etherpad (previously known as EtherPad) is an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each ...
.
It was used as the company
wiki
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s by multiple prominent
startup
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s of the 2010s, such as
Airbnb
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,
Stripe
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Entertainme ...
, and
Upworthy
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.
In April 2014, Hackpad was acquired by
Dropbox
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.
In April 2015, it was announced that Hackpad would be released as open source and source code was published on GitHub in August 2015, under the
Apache license 2.0. On April 25, 2017, Hackpad announced that it is to shut down on July 19, 2017, permanently migrating to
Dropbox Paper.
See also
*
Etherpad
Etherpad (previously known as EtherPad) is an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each ...
*
Google Docs
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Collaborative real-time editors
Free note-taking software
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