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What is "Hack the Hackpad"?

"Hack the Hackpad" is a hack to transform hackpad to a blog CMS and make a blog rending to any hackpad article your write.

OK, now will you tell me WTF a hackpad is?

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hackpad is an awesome collaborative writing platform: https://hackpad.com/

The point (important feedback) is the description doesn't stand on its own. I suspect there's actually something really neat hidden away back there, but even after a few minutes of clicking I wasn't quite sure what it was.

Yep, I still don't really know what's going on and why I'd want to use it. It is certainly competent; the things I've clicked on have looked nice, responded quickly, etc. But, it is not clear what I'm supposed to do with it.

that is really great feedback. I will change the homepage design and how to use a bit to make it more obvious. "Hack the hackpad" is a tool to enable hackpad user to use hackpad to publish blog articles and provide its reader a better reading experiences

Same here. Your site looks nice but I am really confused. Can not imagine what it normal use is. Congrats on shipping, anyway.

Hack the Hackpad currently is not shipped product. It is a hack I put together over 5 or so days over the christmas season to test out the functionality and get feedback. It now doesn't have a backend, but it is on my list where user should be able to create account, login, create new writing, publish selected articles in their admin panel.

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