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Quip - Beautiful Documents on Any Device

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Nice. Seems very similar to other document based collaboration services, perhaps most notably these folks: http://www.collaborate.com/

Quip seems closed, no links to Google Drive or Box that I could see, and no way to share by PDF, but they include private links to hosted document storage. It's like the Asana walled garden[1] in that way, but Quip has a solid focus on documents not tasks.

Some strange UI artifacts on my iPhone 4s iOS7b4, text insertion didn't work; wonder if this is due to a proprietary attributed uitextview?

[1] http://asana.com/product

Curious: what does "/-/" it their robots.txt[1] do?

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /-/
    Disallow: /account/

1: http://www.quip.com/robots.txt

That's just where we put the ajax paths to keep a cleaner URL space

Interesting. However, it seems to block bots entirely: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.quip.com

We just opened up the file at launch... Maybe caching or latency?

Informs search engines not to index the http://www.quip.com/-/ directory.

OK, cheers. I assumed it must be some kind of regexp because according to the Web Archive (see my comment below) the entire domain is disallowed.

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