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Hackpad

Hackpad is a web-based collaborative real-time text editor forked from Etherpad.

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Hackpad is a web-based collaborative real-time text editor forked from Etherpad.1

Overview

It was used as a company wiki by multiple prominent startups of the 2010s, including Airbnb, Stripe, and Upworthy.2

In April 2014, Hackpad was acquired by Dropbox.34 In April 2015, it was announced that Hackpad would be released as open source5 and source code was published on GitHub in August 2015,6 under the Apache license 2.0.7 On April 25, 2017, Dropbox announced that it would shut down on July 19, 2017, with users being permanently migrated to Dropbox Paper.8

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "dropbox/hackpad". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  2. Russell, Jon (2017-04-26). "Dropbox is shuttering Hackpad, the collaborative document service it bought in 2014". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  3. Mike Billings (17 April 2014). "Dropbox Acquires Startups Loom, Hackpad in Push to Expand Services". WSJ. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  4. "Hackpad is teaming up with Dropbox!". hackpad.com. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  5. "Bryan Landers on Twitter".
  6. "Dropbox's Hackpad GitHub repository". GitHub.
  7. "Hackpad COPYING file". GitHub.
  8. "Hackpad is migrating to Dropbox Paper".
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