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I'm really interested to see what happens to Crocodoc. Back in high school a programmer friend and I built a rough website to do joint collaboration that we cal

I'm really interested to see what happens to Crocodoc. Back in high school a programmer friend and I built a rough website to do joint collaboration that we called Collaborate. In our minds it was mainly a solution for all the peer reviewing we had to do for English class, but it follows the same track as Crocodoc. We ended up shutting it down because Google released Google Docs and a number of other real-time collaboration services sprang up. We didn't really have time for marketing/didn't know what we were doing, so it was kind of ridiculous to compete. I'm not really sad about it (we wrote it in PHP, yech), but I'm wondering how Crocodoc will deal with the same problems.

gridspy 17y ago
For every person using Google Docs, there are another 10 or 100 who haven't heard of it, don't understand it or think it is too hard. Don't give up in the face of competition. It just validates the marketplace. For instance - Dropbox went up against many other cloud storage systems and is winning.
- Locke1689 17y ago
  That's a very good point. I sometimes wish I had been a little older when we started this project because we had some cool little features that even some of the larger players haven't come out with (three-way document merge, for example).