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iFixIt, known for their Apple update manuals and supplies, branching out into cloud services for hardware, devices, and chemical industry. A new project called Dozuki is currently in beta and it is designed to streamline the process of technical documentation, creating a Wiki similar conditions for the documentation and instructions.
Company testing their software to make magazine for the past year, and they point to Autodesk's acquisition of Instructables as an example of how the environment is ripe for the violation. "I think, buy AutoDesk Instructables shows that big money is in this space," said Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixIt's.
"Industry has a huge technical documentation and software that is out there now is very old," he said. Dozuki is used to create simple instructions for the clients of the company's expansion plan and iFixIt as Ryobi and Home Depot. For example, a client can create a guide like this one fix RROD Xbox using cloud-based server that supports multiple editors. The whole team can talk about each part of the device separately – think "hints" for major hardware elements for woodworking and metalworking, for example – and offer useful tips for customers in the shop or after purchase.
"You have a lot of Service manuals for your tools, but they are in old PDF," Wiens said. "You could put them on the Internet and use them as the beginning of the Internet community, and perhaps your tool guide are just the start — encourage your customers to share how to do things with your tools."
"So they've got this useful information on how to learn plumbing and they sell all the parts, but they have not made it easy for people to connect the two. We would give them online as site and mobile applications to consumers and to the point of sale. "
"It's a great lesson that we learned from iFixit. People may not use our products if we do not teach them how. "
The site is now in beta and will launch this fall. You can sign up for a beta account and service will cost about $ 100 for small business clients and $ 499 for large organizations. You can see the prices here. "The going rate for social content software for large companies it is a little north of $ 100 k/year", said Kyle.
"The opportunity is huge," he said. "I'm not one to lavish estimates because I don't want to split the VCs, but we're going to make millions." I hope he can make a how-to, when it is done for the rest of us.
BTW this Dozuki. Is a Japanese saw, used for very precise cuts.
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