Comment by dorian-graph | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dorian-graph | Hacker News Reader

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First, before I sound too critical, congratulations on launching your product.

> The average organization uses over 20 different platforms to manage their content and the problem is only getting worse.

[https://xkcd.com/927/](https://xkcd.com/927/) ;) From experience, the problem usually isn't with the technology/physical tools, but with people's behaviour. Things like screening content so people have more trust in it is good, but people still need to at least begin to input content.

Though as far as being something that sits between lots of different tools and platforms, the comic still applies, and I've seen a few of those products come and go over the last couple of years.

I found the comparisons on the 'Why Shelf?' page odd. You mention SharePoint, Confluence and Bloomfire at the top, yet don't do any comparisons to them, only to things which are obviously different (e.g. communications platforms).

Thanks for all your feedback, doesn't sound that critical to me at all and really is straight to the core of the challenge. :)

Of course you're right in a way. Tools are only as helpful as the people using them. So, we want to build a platform that makes it as easy and intuitive as possible, to add and organize things in a way that's accessible to others. And as a next step, build in more intelligence that assists in doing this automatically, including connecting and enriching content.

Content is usually already there, it's just often "locked" in different silos like a Dropbox, Email, CRM systems. We see Shelf connecting with the different content providers and pulling the most important content (not all of it).

There are a couple of comparisons with other platforms, the links are (hidden) in the footer of the homepage, here is one of them: https://shelf.io/shelf-vs-confluence-comparison

Off topic, but FYI -- HN doesn't use Markdown. I make this mistake regularly and have to try to ninja edit each time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Ah that's right, thanks!

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