Hackpad

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

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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. [3] [4] In April 2015, it was announced that Hackpad would be released as open source [5] 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

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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