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Ask HN: Live Hackathon. Creating Online Markdown Editor for API documentation.

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Hi guys,

We are a San Diego based startup that is doing a hackathon this weekend. We are working on an internal project to publish and maintain documentation without any software installation. Over the next 2 days we are doing an internal hackathon to celebrate a co-founder's birthday. We would love to get your feedback.

Check out the description of the hackathon project here: http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-docs/DOCUMENTATION.md

Help us decide which of these potential features we should implement on 10/17 and 10/18. http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-docs/DOCUMENTATION.md#feature-ideas

This is a LIVE HACKATHON, so we'd love it if you can pop into the chatroom to learn about how you use documentations. http://tlk.io/ii_hackathon

This is Travis from the team doing the live hackathon. We'd love to have people stop by the chat room and offer feedback. We'll also check this page somewhat regularly.

Right now, it just views markdown documentation, pulling from GitHub. We'd like to add a tie in with Github's issue tracker (issues / questions about the documentation), some customizable styling, and an inline editor (so you can edit your documentation inline, and it'll push the changes back to your repo).

We're planning to open source the whole thing once we add issues, inline editing, and fix a few bugs.

Clickable links: Project Description - http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-doc...

Feature Ideas - http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-doc...

Live Hackathon Chat - http://tlk.io/ii_hackathon

Looking forward to hearing the community's feedback.

Hi! This is Brian, part of the team working on this project.

Here are the original API Docs that we built the project for: http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/cortex-...

Here's a link to the project's homepage: http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/

Has anyone tried this one? http://www.javascriptspellcheck.com/

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