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Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

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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"!

Thank you, that's very kind of you - excited to try it out.

Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

#102
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I'm curious but that's not much of an intro/demo.

We admittedly haven't put much effort into the this yet because we're genuinely curious about people's unbiased reactions to it since it's an mvp. This reaction in itself is great feedback though :)

Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

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Would you prefer a chatbot?

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!

Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thank you for all the feedback. I'm slowly working my way through everything and finding it all extremely helpful. I'll make sure to document the changes that have been made in response to this discussion.

As 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.

Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

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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!

Thank you! You've got some good principles laid out in the about page re. how creativity strikes right there while you're editing, so would be interesting to see how to you tackle that challenge

Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

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The text is bloody almost invisible which is so bloody annoying. A blacker font? Or a better or bigger one perhaps? Or is it just the colour? The notes are not linked to the text either... (which may or may not be a good idea).

Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

#107

Yes, 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…

iA Writer is an app that fills this niche, and does it wonderfully. People justify spending hundreds online for their entire app suite because of the simplicity of this software.

Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting

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KeenWrite, 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?

Lob me an email, details in my profile.
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