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How should we get in touch? I’m very curious about this, would love to get the chance to try it for a while.
Forgot HN doesn't have a DM feature. Just use code "beta"!
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#102I'm curious but that's not much of an intro/demo.
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#104As an aside, I realized when I logged into this account to post that I created my Hackernews account over a decade ago, and scrolling through my post history and coming across the multiple Show HN news posts I've done throughout that time, thinking about the successes and failures I've had with those old projects, and realizing that this community has been here the whole damn time, being as generous and constructive and open-minded as it ever was... that's really cool.
Thank you everyone for being part of one of the best communities on the entire internet. Y'all are too good.
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I'd prefer some kind of publicly accessible document I could browse at my leisure...
Definitely hoping to get more materials up soon! Sorry it's barebones for the moment, we have a lot to do!
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#107Yes, a word processing app like MS Word is technically more suitable for typesetting than it is for writing. No, that's not a major problem. I tried building a similar project some 10 years ago, when "Zen writing tools" were all the rage. Nobody wanted to pay for it. It wasn't general purpose enough to be usable by the general public. And novelists (who I was targeting) are poor and cheap. 90% of people who say they…
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#108KeenWrite, my free and open-source (R) Markdown editor, has a fair amount of overlap with Lunette. From the other thread comments, here are a few items that KeenWrite has: * Offline editing * Dark mode * Manuscript theme * Separates content from presentation * Automatically curls straight quotes Here's a tutorial showing how themes (and variables) work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30 I've been dog-foodin…
I am quite the avid sci-fi reader. I have never been an alpha reader, and I am intrigued at the prospect. What does it entail?