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I agree, so much so that about 10 years ago I built a product that did this! …

I agree, so much so that about 10 years ago I built a product that did this! I launched to lukewarm reception, actually applied to YC with it and didn't get much of a look, nor an interview :-) and after a bit of (though certainly far too little) further hustle gave up on it due to circumstances leading me on another path. Anyway, I was a tiny bit vindicated when about a year later I noticed Stack exchange themselves did a similar product, but as far as I know, it never really hit. They would advertise it in the side banner for quite a few years but it eventually seemed to go away. It's weird that it didn't work, it always did seem like an incredibly good idea to me - just so good, it's obvious. If such a thing existed, it'd add so much to any company onboarding experience at a minimum, and would also have obvious ongoing value. And it just seemed like a great strategy to get useful and up to date documentation: to gamify it. …

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I believe pretty strongly that almost every company should have some kind of internal SE

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If it's any consolation, I feel like I've been pitched 10 different versions of this product over the years and I've encountered a lot of startups trying to do the exact same thing. You probably didn't get any YC traction because they'd seen the same thing so many times before. I wouldn't be surprised if we could find a YC batch or two that already contained this exact idea.

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I wish your solution was still out there. I’m still running an ancient OSQA site with no way to migrate to anything else.

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consider feedback people get like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086703 companies don't always reward answering questions...

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