Atlassian has this, it’s called Confluence. It’s even listed in the comparison chart linked above. They recently offered a hosted option, but as you mention, running your own server is a requirement for some folks who can’t let their intellectual property outside their network.

I really appreciate the comparison matrix you provided. Good stuff - as it does serve to differentiate you.

I would think think about adding Livelink and Documentum to that matrix if your planning on a corporate play.

Good work!

Seriously taking about 6% of your company to get some amazing advice from people that have worked through the industry is really invaluable. Especially when your taking about mostly fresh out of college no business experience CS nerds, which is really what YC seeks out.

I don’t really think of this as a GDocs killer, but it is still a really interesting idea that could hold its own weight, and very possibly carve out a profitable niche for itself.

I guess I would rather hear valid complaints against the application than random attacks because the start up begun as a YC company.

Please contact us directly through support@versionate.com with any issues. We would be happy to assist you.

Please do link to products when you write about them. Crunch Base is going to become a great resource but it’s just irritating when you have to click through it to get to the product.

Thank you.

Y Combinator’s second company of the summer season, Versionate, launches today. It is a document-driven wiki product - upload just about any kind of file and Versionate will create an editable, wiki-like page with version and access controls….

- tab to Google docs - wouldn’t that steal some thunder

You have your thumb on a real hotbutton for me. Hosted wikis are basically everywhere … it’s high time someone built a decent wysiwyg wiki that I can buy and host on my own server at a reasonable price. I’ve been burned by the ‘trust your data to the little startup’ thing before.

Versionate is close to the thing I’d like to have on my own servers. Not perfect, and has some problems right now - on Vista I could not upload images, attachments, or docs, and embrassingly I couldn’t report the problem or ask for help either! (When I tried, I was unable to enter text in the dialog boxes it presented)

Advice:

Competitors or startup will copy or make more similar product.

This is one of the founders of Versionate. We understand the document management market has established players. However, Versionate differs from them in several ways. We make it possible to view all your content right in the browser, no need to fire up an external application. It’s also extremely simple to setup and use, which we believe businesses will find compelling.

See how we stack up against the competition: http://www.versionate.com/comparison

Mike,

I’m curious to see why you believe this is “joke of a startup” site.

In your comment you state that Y-Combinator companies are DOA. You also state that Paul Graham suckers them into giving up equity at really low prices.

Which is it? Is Paul Graham taking huge chunks of equity from naive founders who don’t realize how much their IP is worth? Or is he investing in worthless DOA companies and therefore not taking enough equity? (i.e. post money valuation = 0 therefore $15,000 should buy infinity percent of the company)

You can’t have it both ways. Pick one gripe and then relentlessly post that.

- Carl

Outside big business does anyone use MS sharepoint and Exchange server? This seems a lot more cost effective (free) and easy to setup.