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Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
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Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should update the About page. Your comment here is a much, much better explanation of what you are trying to do and why. Tossing out some suggestions: Instead of: Traditional word processors are for formatting text. Lunette organizes your ideas and supports the writing process. Try something more like: Lunette: A Word Processor for writers. A space for ideation and composition, not just text formatting. Write a b…
Wow. This was great advice. Remind me to look you up when I present my next project. Thank you for modeling what a great critique looks like.
My gmail address is DoreenMicheleTraylor. Let me know if you need anything else.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#43BTW ping me for a coupon code to make it free if you want to actually use it! Edit: Forgot no DMs on HN. Use code "beta"!
Is it online only? Can I install a local copy that doesn't need to check in online? Does data get stored on your servers? Do you have a list of features and do you approach the featureset of scrivener? This website is too mysterious for me.
Yes, wondering about this too. Putting unpublished ideas onto a third-party server? That's a lot of trust to place in a complete stranger.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#44KeenWrite, 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-fooding the editor for almost eight years to help me write a sci-fi novel. (Alpha readers wanted!)
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#45KeenWrite, 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…
This is cool!
I think my favorite part about doing this Show HN is all the interesting products I'm discovering, and seeing all the different ways people approach this space and this problem.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#46My favourite word processor is html.
Being serious here, not even trolling. I've gone through many things, and always come back to writing mostly raw html for my own needs. Occasionally I write a small bash script to automate some stuff, bit that's about it.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#47Open source? Closed? Web-app only? Locally installable? Privacy policy? Pricing? Would you be happier if it made you money or if a community helped you build it?
If I'm being perfectly honest, it never even occurred to me to consider the open source route. I'm not opposed to open source at all--I've done in the past--but one issue could be that I might loose the ability to be highly opinionated about the evolution of the product, and I think in this space where there are already a ton of "do a lot of things halfway decently" products, being opinionated about what Lunette is and is not could be key to its success.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apologies, I've sort of been struggling with how to present the concept clearly and concisely. Here's an overview of where the idea came from: https://lunette.app/about Basically, my wife and I both write, and we found ourselves bouncing around from app to app looking for something that felt good and like a place we could really be productive and creative but never found anything that felt quite right, both in terms…
You would need to better underline why this is a webapp. You say you needed a better word processor, but mention products like Medium (blogging platform) and Google Docs (an online word processor). Why not Typora, Obsidian, Zettlr? These are complex word processor apps that also focus minimalism. I don't know if you considered these when starting to develop, but if so, some comparison would be apt to why your app is…
Thanks for this!
To answer the question, Lunette would ideally be a combination of local and cloud and be available via web and native app. One product I tried that did this was Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/), but the problem was they made you choose because the two (either saved to the cloud OR locally), whereas I think it'd work better if those two worked hand in hand. But that's complicated to build and beyond the scope of a proof of concept.
Ultimately I went with the web app because that's my skillset and I figured the best first step was seeing if it's even something people would use.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apologies, I've sort of been struggling with how to present the concept clearly and concisely. Here's an overview of where the idea came from: https://lunette.app/about Basically, my wife and I both write, and we found ourselves bouncing around from app to app looking for something that felt good and like a place we could really be productive and creative but never found anything that felt quite right, both in terms…
> And what do we do with our ideas when they arise? Well, we scroll to the bottom of the document and jot them down, copy and paste them, rearrange them, and hope we'll remember to come back to them. I write erotic novels as a hobby. I legit thought no one else does this (putting random unorganized ideas at the bottom of the document). I am genuinely pleased to know I am not the only one.
I was too! I hope the way we've done it solves the problem!
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should update the About page. Your comment here is a much, much better explanation of what you are trying to do and why. Tossing out some suggestions: Instead of: Traditional word processors are for formatting text. Lunette organizes your ideas and supports the writing process. Try something more like: Lunette: A Word Processor for writers. A space for ideation and composition, not just text formatting. Write a b…
I second almost 100% of this feedback. Especially where you started: OP’s comment is much more illuminating than anything on the site. My only quibble is this: > I would probably leave out the fact that you are "husband and wife." If that were the language I’d probably agree, and probably wouldn’t have given it much more thought than that! But I think “husband and wife team” swayed me from that instinct. It’s a good…
This is super helpful to hear, thank you! I'm like you, I like using products that feel like they've been built by people rather than faceless companies, so I felt like this would be good to share.