# Hackpad

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**Hackpad** is a [web-based](/source/Web-based) [collaborative real-time text editor](/source/Collaborative_real-time_text_editor) forked from [Etherpad](/source/Etherpad).[1]

## Overview

It was used as a company [wiki](/source/Wiki) by multiple prominent [startups](/source/Startup_company) of the 2010s, including [Airbnb](/source/Airbnb), [Stripe](/source/Stripe%2C_Inc.), and [Upworthy](/source/Upworthy).[2]

In April 2014, Hackpad was acquired by [Dropbox](/source/Dropbox_(service)).[3][4] In April 2015, it was announced that Hackpad would be released as open source[5] and source code was published on [GitHub](/source/GitHub) in August 2015,[6] under the [Apache license](/source/Apache_license) 2.0.[7] On April 25, 2017, Dropbox announced that it would shut down on July 19, 2017, with users being permanently migrated to [Dropbox Paper](/source/Dropbox_Paper).[8]

## See also

- [Etherpad](/source/Etherpad)

- [Google Docs](/source/Google_Docs)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["dropbox/hackpad"](https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad/blob/master/LICENSE). *GitHub*. Retrieved 2018-10-15.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Russell, Jon (2017-04-26). ["Dropbox is shuttering Hackpad, the collaborative document service it bought in 2014"](https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/dropbox-is-closing-down-hackpad/). *[TechCrunch](/source/TechCrunch)*. Retrieved 2022-07-14.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-wsj_3-0)** Mike Billings (17 April 2014). ["Dropbox Acquires Startups Loom, Hackpad in Push to Expand Services"](https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/04/17/dropbox-acquires-startups-loom-hackpad-in-push-to-expand-services/). *WSJ*. Retrieved 14 June 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Hackpad is teaming up with Dropbox!"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160131030949/https://hackpad.com/Hackpad-is-teaming-up-with-Dropbox-m1Fne5A6Lzn). *hackpad.com*. Archived from [the original](https://hackpad.com/Hackpad-is-teaming-up-with-Dropbox-m1Fne5A6Lzn) on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Bryan Landers on Twitter"](https://twitter.com/bryanlanders/status/586235797571002368/photo/1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Dropbox's Hackpad GitHub repository"](https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Hackpad COPYING file"](https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad/blob/master/COPYING). *[GitHub](/source/GitHub)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Hackpad is migrating to Dropbox Paper"](https://www.dropbox.com/help/9156).

## External links

- [Official website](https://hackpad.com/)

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