[sarora27]

My cofounder and I launched Kbee (https://kbee.app) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project

[adobrawy]

Sounds very cool. I passed it on to a friendly organization.

This organization is in the Google Workspace ecosystem, but Google doesn't have documentation as accessible as Notion. We could try to implement Notion, but this will scatter the data storage and then there is the problem of archiving if the experiment fails. This looks like a plug-in solution to our problem of having Notion-like lightweight documentation and not scattering data.

Do I understand correctly that you charge a fee per organization regardless of the number of seats? This is important for this organization because it is a non-profit association, so there are many members, the board must provide access to information to all members, some members are minimally active, so per seat licenses seem to be often a blocker due to the large loss on inactive members.

[sarora27]

You are correct that we charge a per org fee regardless of number of seats. For non-profits, we offer a 50% discount on the subscription price. All the nonprof needs to do to get the discount is email me at [e-mail]

[pestaa]

https://roadmap.kbee.app doesn't load for now. Will check back later! :)

[sarora27]

Ahh yes, this is down. We are still deciding if we want to bring back the public facing roadmap :)

[alexanderhall]

Is the Google drive thing only a way to import data - or can the data be stored in Drive but edited in your service?

[sarora27]

All data is stored & edited in Drive. Kbee simply renders it in an easy to search/consume manner

[ganarajpr]

Do you have a blog or a write up explaining how you went about doing this ?

[sarora27]

We wrote about our entire journey on IndieHackers. You can find our posts here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/kbee

[gardenhedge]

Where do you find customers for this?

[sarora27]

We went from nothing to paid users & number 2 product of the day on ProductHunt over a period of three months.

I documented our entire journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/our-journey-from-idea-to-p...

[TheCapeGreek]

I came upon KBee 'organically' last year. I came from a Notion org to a Google Doc org and I hate Docs and the siloed nature of it. General Drive search is a mess when you're searching for knowledge and not files. Suggested KBee to bring some of the discovery back in to the org.

[hsuduebc2]

I'm curious too.

[hackerbeat]

Cool tool, but way too expensive.