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[Glenn Gillen]

Does http://elev.io do what you need?



-Glenn

Founder - Glu IO

http://getglu.io




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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Simon Morley <simon at polkaspots.com>
wrote:

> Hello All
> *What do you use for your product documentation?*
> We just launched a new service and our docs were foolishly / typically left
> to the last minute.
> Long-term we're going to use Github pages but we have no time (or people)
> to make it pretty. And add search. Or train those writing the docs.
> In desperation, we've chucked them on readme.io. However, words cannot
> describe how terrible readme is. Avoid. Plague. Although it is
> superficially pretty:
> http://docs.cucumbertony.com
> We already use Intercom for support so we need none of that. We have our
> api documentation on apiary (http://docs.polkaspots.apiary.io/#) which is
> awesome.
> We just a place for the end-user, customer facing, help-me style docs.
> *Stuff we tried:*
> - Zendesk - good support system, crap docs, terrible community aspect.
> - Freshdesk - support orientated.
> - Help Scout - ok but more about support. Ugly.
> - Help Juice - OMG VPL expensive.
> - Readme.io - genuinely made me irate.
> - Desk - seemingly all about support.
> - Atlassian - the peeps writing them couldn't understand it.
> - Github pages - fabulous but needs attention and same issue as Atlassian.
> - Userdeck - no idea what it does still.
> - HappyFox - v basic apparently, didn't try.
> - kayako - too complicated to set up.
> We need something simple. With basic search. And it needs to be pretty. And
> easy to use.
> If this magical beast doesn't exist, it should. I'd even write something
> with some of you.
> Great product, shoddy docs. Not cool.
> Help?
> S
> Simon Morley
> Big Chief | PolkaSpots Supafly Wi-Fi
> simon at PolkaSpots.com
> Linkedin: I'm not on it, it sucks
> 020 7183 1471
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