beautifuldocs

Dev tools

documentation generator

SHOW HN2012

beautifuldocs

documentation generator based on markdown files in node.js

beautifuldocs.com

#markdown#documentation generator#node.js#gh-pages

26points
12comments
#800of 1,677 in 2012
Top 48%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.

Design: 2 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • More complete and visually engaging than similar tools

    From 1 comment
    • Seems more complete and visually engaging than the others to me. Very well done. Although a hosted version like documentup could be really great too for open source projects
      mdcarter on HN
  • Better design and concept than DocumentUp

    From 1 comment
    • Yeah I thought the same thing only DocumentUp has a better design/concept.
      tbranyen on HN

Requests

  • Hosted version for open source projects

    From 1 comment
    • Seems more complete and visually engaging than the others to me. Very well done. Although a hosted version like documentup could be really great too for open source projects
      mdcarter on HN
  • Import or sync with GitHub

    From 1 comment
    • GuideKit seems really nice. Nice UI. However, one of the reason behind beautiful docs is to keep the documentation as files. That way, everything is in git and readable from the…
      emixam on HN

Questions

  • What motivated building the project

    From 1 comment
    • DocumentUp creator here. Cool project. Why can't we both collaborate on the same project instead and make it awesome? You seem to also be using CoffeeScript, eco, express and…
      jeromegn on HN

Alternatives named

  • DocumentUp

    From 1 comment
    • Cool. Looks very similar idea to http://documentup.com/, which in turn is similar to http://readthedocs.org
      ivan_ah on HN
  • readthedocs

    From 1 comment
    • Cool. Looks very similar idea to http://documentup.com/, which in turn is similar to http://readthedocs.org
      ivan_ah on HN
  • GuideKit

    From 1 comment
    • This is a nice concept. If you are looking for a full-featured Markdown documentation product, I just released an app called GuideKit (https://guidekit.com). It's free for open…
      derrickreimer on HN
  • gfms

    From 1 comment
    • If you just want to preview your Github Markdown files (e.g. your README.md) locally before committing them into Github, check out my Node.js-based Github Flavored Markdown…
      ypcx on HN

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