About

The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform

Designed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow has rapidly become the best place for programmers to get answers to technical questions. Now there’s a way to get the same kind of site for your audience.

“StackExchange is simply brilliant. Building online communities is hard. Very hard. There must be some magic in StackExchange because the level of user engagement has just been phenomenal. Personally, I think it’s the diabolically clever badges system that users get addicted to. Frankly, it doesn’t matter. The users love it and the traffic keeps pouring in. It’s easy to get started and has all the features you’d need in a Q&A site. Don’t even think about writing a product like this yourself. Go focus on more important things. Get StackExchange—it just works.”

Dharmesh Shah
answers.onstartups.com

Bird calls? Stamp collecting? It’s up to you

The idea of a knowledge exchange, running the same software as Stack Overflow, can be applied to just about any subject matter. With StackExchange™, you can run a site with all the same features that made Stack Overflow successful.

Customizable look and feel

StackExchange allows you to override style sheets, choose color schemes, and provide your own logo. You can use a stackexchange.com URL (for example, philately.stackexchange.com) or your own top-level domain. You can also insert arbitrary HTML into the parts of the page where stackoverflow.com would display advertising.

Build an internal knowledge exchange

StackExchange allows your employees to share their knowledge with each other easily and securely. We can provide you with a dedicated server to install on your own premises behind your firewall, or host it at our secure facility and connect it to your network via a VPN.

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What now?

Sign up for the Stack Exchange beta today and build
your own knowledge exchange.

Questions? Comments? Visit meta.stackexchange.com,
the knowledge exchange about Stack Exchange.

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