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Re: Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

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Post by artursapek »

siscia wrote: post #46

There is a lot of positive comments in this comments section that I don't mind being a bit rough. I think we can do much better. The workflow of copy to chatgpt and getting feedback is just the first step, and honestly not that useful. What I would love to see is a tool that makes my writing and thinking clearer. Does this sentence makes sense? Does the conclusion I am reaching follows from what I am saying? Is this…

Revise can answer any of those questions! You just have to ask.

You can also focus your questions by selecting a segment of your document, and then writing a prompt; the agent will see what you've selected and focus its efforts on that. You can even prompt with multiple selections attached at once.

I'm hoping to add more "proactive" AI to this eventually, like automatic comments raising the critiques along the lines of these questions you enumerated. Right now the agent has to be prompted first for it to do any real thinking.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

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Post by artursapek »

highhands89 wrote: post #56

This is really cool, but I'm wondering how you're getting around content moderation that the models utilize, or are you not?

I've definitely had the models refuse to process some content, like a lockpicking guide PDF. It happens pretty rarely, but I'm not testing with especially edgy content.

The agent is model-agnostic though; I already have integrations with 3 providers. It could be extended to more free speech friendly models in the future, should there be good ones that can handle tool calls well enough.

Re: Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

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Post by artursapek »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #59

Very cool! It’d be very cool to have a “remove signs of AI writing” feature (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing ) - wishing you great success reinventing this space for the new era!

Thank you! I have considered adding some settings like this, but don't want to encourage the use of this software for cheating.

For now, the catch-all solution that anyone can attempt to use is the custom prompt, under account settings. You can instruct it never to use emdash, avoid certain cliches, or simple things like that. But you have to write it yourself for now, there's no convenient presets or anything like that.

If you have ideas please email me art@revise.io

Re: Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

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Post by artursapek »

johnwhitman wrote: post #64

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It was pretty painful and frustrating, but now that it's relatively stable I'm really happy I took that path. I have full control!

I think the way people approach agentic coding depends on their career experience. I had my project acquired previously at the acquiring company hired a large team to work on it. This forced me to go from being a solo dev to a technical manager who's got dozens of people working on code. I treat codex/claude the same way as that; I am leading the ship and it's doing most of the heavy lifting. It's leverage and helps you get more done if you give the right guidance, constraints, and acceptance criteria.

Re: Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

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Post by arrsingh »

NewsaHackO wrote: post #39
arrsingh wrote: post #32

This looks really nice! Congratulations on building something awesome, especially in a space that's "crowded" with the big players. I want to give kudos to two things: 1. It took you 10 months to build this. This is focused product development and craftsmanship which is very different from Vibe coding something. So let this be a reminder to all the "I can vibe code this or that in a weekend". Good products / experien…

> This is focused product development and craftsmanship which is very different from Vibe coding something. So let this be a reminder to all the "I can vibe code this or that in a weekend". Good products / experiences take time. How do you know? There isn't a git repo that one can see the history of, he could have coded this in one weekend and used the rest of the time doing noncoding activities. Also, he could have…

I signed up and gave the product a spin and its clear that its not some vibe coded weekend project. Clearly a lot of effort has gone into it and OP also was clear that they've spent 10 months on this.

Re: Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

artursapek wrote: post #63
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #59

Very cool! It’d be very cool to have a “remove signs of AI writing” feature (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing ) - wishing you great success reinventing this space for the new era!

Thank you! I have considered adding some settings like this, but don't want to encourage the use of this software for cheating. For now, the catch-all solution that anyone can attempt to use is the custom prompt, under account settings. You can instruct it never to use emdash, avoid certain cliches, or simple things like that. But you have to write it yourself for now, there's no convenient presets or anything like t…

Why make it your business what people use it for?

We don’t do that with hammers, or guns. In the case of the latter, manufacturers outsource policing the thing’s use, and everyone understands that.

Re: Show HN: Revise – An AI Editor for Documents

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Post by artursapek »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #68
artursapek wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! I have considered adding some settings like this, but don't want to encourage the use of this software for cheating. For now, the catch-all solution that anyone can attempt to use is the custom prompt, under account settings. You can instruct it never to use emdash, avoid certain cliches, or simple things like that. But you have to write it yourself for now, there's no convenient presets or anything like t…

Why make it your business what people use it for? We don’t do that with hammers, or guns. In the case of the latter, manufacturers outsource policing the thing’s use, and everyone understands that.

My line is I don’t want to market it as a tool that’s obviously for cheating/deception by building features for that. But beyond that, I don’t want to make it my business.
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