This looks nice but $60/mo seems incredibly pricey when there are also nice, and similar, open source solutions such as http://ricostacruz.com/flatdoc/
What extra value am I paying for?
What extra value am I paying for?
We've spent a lot of time putting together our API docs and it's nowhere as nice as this. The service they're providing is valuable to me as a way of solving this problem. I've never met or even heard of anyone working at readme.io btw - saw this on HN for the first time today.
A huge benefit of ReadMe is the document organization and drafting capabilities. I no longer have a bunch of Dropbox folders that I save Byword Markdown docs to.
I can organize things in a reasonably sane way, and when I am writing new docs (think of docs as a living organism) I can write them in ReadMe and decide when and how to publish them.
It removes a lot of duct tape and glue compared to other solutions I have looked at.
I think if your aim is to crank out a few pages of Markdown and host them on a static site generator, other options might be good for you. ReadMe is definitely first class if you want to create a corpus, and present it beautifully without a bunch of extra steps.
Last time i watch at RTD it was a plain .md project import from e.g. GitHub only to show a plain documentation.
In Readme.io you can edit/write your docs, have blog function and an integrated discussion plattform (for support your users). If you not need this features, you can use RTD or directly sphinx.