Sad day but it was going to eventually happen
“We are reaching out to inform you that edocr.com will be shutting down permanently on October 29, 2025” Acquirer of my acquirer killing it.
As I am getting lazier, I asked ChatGPT
edocr.com is a notable case because:
– Bootstrapped, UK-based origin (unique compared to heavily funded US peers).
– Community + embedding focus — edocr carved out a niche by allowing professionals to upload, share, and generate leads through documents, which was a distinct angle compared to Scribd’s consumer reading focus or SlideShare’s conference slides.
– Acquisition (Accusoft, 2015) — a classic example of how document tech attracted corporate acquirers. Accusoft, being a document-imaging company, was more infrastructure-focused, and eventually edocr didn’t remain core to its strategy.
– Longevity — even after the acquisition, edocr stayed online for a full decade under new ownership. That’s a long post-acquisition run compared to Docstoc (shut down 2 years after Intuit’s purchase).
That places edocr historically as one of the “survivors” of the original YouTube-for-documents era — it outlived Docstoc, Microsoft Docs.com, and arguably even SlideShare in its original spirit.
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