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  • Ask HN: Anyonne tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2025
    Hey Dave,

    Good to hear from you, and glad you're still doing cool things :)

    Read the Docs is pretty much all open source, including the billing code (https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/blob/main/rea...), but we are structured like a normal company. We haven't found anyone else setting up a competing instance or anything, but that might also be because the product is kind of niche.

    I kinda love the idea of having people in the community that use the service have some kind of ownership over the platform. It would likely lead to longer term loyalty of the userbase, which would help keep the project sustainable and avoid the enshittification cycle.

    We've played around with sharing ad revenue that we generate on documentation pages split with the projects, which is partially a win/win way of sharing in the upside of success.

    Anyway, I don't have a great answer here, but wanted to say hi, and give a bit of context from our place in the world.

  • Ask HN: ReadTheDocs Became Proprietary Now?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2024
    I went to https://readthedocs.org/ and redirected me to https://about.readthedocs.com/?ref=readthedocs.org which looks proprietary now, with pricing and such.

    Is it the end of this project, as we know it?

    Can someone enlighten me please?

  • Quick Guide to Leveraging Read the Docs for Your GitHub Projects
    1 project | dev.to | 19 Feb 2024
    First things first, sign up on Read the Docs and connect your GitHub account. This allows Read the Docs to access your repositories.
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    fixes are here: https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/10290
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    4 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 23 Apr 2023
    Read the Docs offers free hosting of Sphinx-based documentation. I recommend setting up a basic documentation very early so that you can easily add material when you have something to write about. I also recommend studying The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation, but don't overthink it.
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    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023
    ReadTheDocs: An open-source platform for creating and hosting documentation, with support for multiple programming languages and integration with version control systems.
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    Well, by now I really invite all the readers to join and read more about the datadelivery Terraform module. There is a huge documentation page hosted on readthedocs with many useful information about how this project can help users on their analytics journey in AWS.
  • Marketing for Developers
    7 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2023
    ReadTheDocs is a free way to host your open-source documentation.
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    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Feb 2023
    They are using this infrastructure as the moat. ReadTheDocs is also doing the same thing.

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readthedocs/readthedocs.org is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

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