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At the risk of getting down-voted for self-promotion...

I see a lot of comments around Word being not the right format for "distributing, sharing, commenting".

My startup Documize [1] is just a week old and is currently being tried out by a handful of legal professionals and the like for handling what happens around structured documents.

The premise is that MS Word is where structured documents are born in the enterprise world. It's what happens after they come into being that is the problem: network drives, file sync folders, email tennis, Word-track-changes, manual consolidation, etc.

A real pain.

Documize aims to help people distribute documents, collate feedback, provide version control and even allow for private notes. From a browser.

Working towards that vision at the moment -- just thought I'd throw this out there.

[1] https://documize.com



We are solving many of the same problems at Contractually [0]. Word import, contract generation, private editing, version control, redlining, commenting, e-signatures, and more.

[0] http://www.contractual.ly/


You may be interested in some open source work I am doing:

https://github.com/commonform

https://asciinema.org/a/16221


Many thanks -- will look into it!




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