Hackpad Explained

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

Overview

It was used as the company wikis by multiple prominent startups of the 2010s, such as 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

Notes and References

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

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