Papyrs

A new take on knowledge bases, team wikis & intranet sites

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All your information in one place. Build an internal site with whatever you need to work together: notes, files, checklists, videos, forms/databases, calendars, and more. It's all drag&drop (or Markdown if that's your thing 🤓)
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Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Notes
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Sam Rye
Looks good. Also, dare I say it, looks a lot like Notion. What makes you different?
Wim Cools
Maker
@samrye_enspiral Thanks Sam! I think we have similar goals but a different focus. The impression I get is they’ve initially focused more on personal note-taking which also works in teams, and for us it’s the other way around. For example, the type of content you could share with Papyrs’ format includes docs you would make on Notion, but it’s also a great format for internal news, HR forms and working on projects. We have useful widgets for all those kinds of use cases, from calendars to polls and discussions (including embeds from other sources like Google Drive/Calendar). Another big difference is how the site is organized. With subsites it’s very easy for companies with all kinds of teams, departments and projects to organize their content and make sure permissions are correct. Another thing we heard from power users is how much they love Markdown. So with Papyrs you can switch back-and-forth and edit your whole document that way. And finally, something we noticed recently on a public post linked somewhere is that their site is full of trackers. Especially for something like a wiki/intranet, we think privacy is very important, and we’re not going to send (internal) data to all kinds of analytics companies about that.
Wim Cools
Maker
Oh and I thought I'd also answer this from a Maker perspective, maybe interesting for other makers who suddenly find a player in their category become astronomically big ;). They always tell you to not spend too much time worrying about competitors, and just design what you think your customers want, stick to your own vision. So that's exactly what we did, and to be honest we hadn't really heard of them (this was years ago!) until we started to get some more "ah so like Notion?" comments. A fellow indie maker even asked why we would move in such a space with such a big player. But here's the interesting part: they weren't even there yet when we started. So by that logic they would also never have launched because we were there! That would have been the wrong move because obviously. We never felt discouraged by this as we knew we have users who are super happy with our approach. So just focus on your vision, the world is such a huge place after all, and the way we see it the most important thing is that you have people who love your product.
Razvan Ilin
Chartbrew
I was thinking of giving notion a shot these days. Papyrs looks cool though, so I'll try using it for a bit to see how it is :D
Dan Pajek
Congrats on the launch! I’m curious if any jira integration is possible? Perhaps via zapier?
Diederik van Houten
Maker
@dan_pajek Thanks! You can use Zapier to connect Papyrs and Jira. Papyrs also has an API that you can use to build your own custom integrations.
Hal Gottfried
One difference I see between them and notion is everything lives in the cloud. No local app, I know some of my clients that’s a hard pass
Wim Cools
Maker
@hgottfried Thanks for the feedback! If you mean an offline mode, you're right, that's not there at the moment. We have some ideas about this but it's something we still have to look at.
Jaap Nieuwland
@hgottfried What do your clients prefer about the local app experience over the cloud?
Hal Gottfried
@deadlysyntax some of my customers due to regulatory constraints such as FIPS can only store data in compliant locations, several prefer not to store off site at all.
Joshua Galan
Looks nice! Any way to hide the comments on the right side of the page? I feel that it takes up too much unwanted real estate in some cases.
Wim Cools
Maker
@muygalan Thanks Joshua! Sure, you can delete the discussion widget like any other widget (click on its "..." > Delete). If you want to keep the discussion but place it somewhere else, you can also simply drag it around, or change the layout of your page completely, by clicking the "Page Layout" button in the editor toolbar.
Szilvia László
I am a hardcore Notion fan but this seems really nice! I really like the design, it has this internal - wiki / website - feeling, while with Notion, it feels more "this is my private journal" even when I used it for work. Great work, keep on going! Quick question, do you plan to add an auto-save feature?
Wim Cools
Maker
@szilvia_laszlo Thanks! Yep, if you edit a page, Papyrs automatically saves changes in the background.
Wim Cools
Maker
Hey Product Hunters! 👋 I'm Wim, co-founder of Papyrs. Together with @jdvhouten I've been coding in the proverbial basement for more than 2.5 years to build what we're launching here today, so we're super excited to finally show it to you all! 🌱 We started building on the original vision for Papyrs waaay back in 2011. After working on several projects (while 100% remote), we found there wasn't an easy way to just share everything in one place in a structured way. The flexibility of the web seemed perfect for this: mix, match, and embed whatever you want to share. But while there's dozens of tools to build public websites, building websites for internal communication was only available in the form of technical/clunky 90's intranet software. So we built a simple widget-based page editor which anyone in a company could use to share knowledge internally. It works for docs, news, forms, anything. ⚡️ Since then companies from around the world started using Papyrs for their intranet/wiki site. Maker-itis kicked in again and so we kept building and refining, bringing us to the launch today. Some of Papyrs' features include: • Easy page editing with dozens of widgets to add: notes, files, discussions, checklists, forms, polls, calendars, you name it. • Switch between visual drag&drop and Markdown editing. • Find-as-you-type search. • Subsites and straightforward permissions. • Works with Slack, G Suite, SAML, Zapier. 🚀 Special thanks to everyone who already helped us with feedback! Excited to share this today and looking forward to hearing what you think. We'll be here all day to answer any questions. Oh and we're also launching a free personal plan in case you'd like to use it as a personal wiki!
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