What's the source for the first image?
Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out
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#12"Hi! It looks like you're trying to recycle an idea from the late 90's into yet another SaaS product. Would you like to (a) post to HN a bloated landing page with almost no details, (b) collect email addresses, or (c) both?"
What is the idea? I can't tell from reading the link. I'm surprised this managed to make it to the front page.
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#13What's the source for the first image?
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#14After reading over their landing page a few times, I think that this is writing assistant "service". You start writing out your proposal and some automated "asssistant, not a bot" is supposed to analyze your writing and provide suggestions to make it more memorizable and easy to understand (group this into 3 phrases instead of sentences. Remove this adverb. Change this sentence from passive to active). I assume once you write it up, it gives you the ability to share your masterpiece as a link, possibly export to word/pdf/stone tablet.
Much like Microsoft's Clippy, the idea is pretty sound, but a bad implementation will make it more of an annoyance than a feature. Given the confused meandering of their landing page, I don't have much hope for their product.
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#15I truly honestly have no idea what this is. Is it a blogging platform? A CMS?
Looks like a blogging platform, like Medium.
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#16"Hi! It looks like you're trying to recycle an idea from the late 90's into yet another SaaS product. Would you like to (a) post to HN a bloated landing page with almost no details, (b) collect email addresses, or (c) both?"
What is the idea? I can't tell from reading the link. I'm surprised this managed to make it to the front page.
Perhaps people think it's a parody worth upvoting?
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#17This basic post with two images (four counting the logo and author avatar) clocks in at 30 requests and a plump 6.10 MB. Bold!
I'm clocking in at 5.1MB which is still huge, but 4.4MB are from images alone. However their biggest image is a 2.8MB 24-bit monster PNG. That really could be a JPEG, with moderate compression it could come in at only a few hundred kilobyes I think.
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#18I can definitely see how this could be useful for teams that create content collaboratively. When our team works on release notes, blog posts, support articles, etc we use a combination of Slack and Google Docs.
After editing, we post to tumblr (product updates), Medium (blog/marketing) or any one of half a dozen other places where we out stuff. Bold feels to me like Medium with bonus collaboration features + integrations. Tools like http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ built in sound awesome. Add in the ability to create your own assistants (import brand assets, pull up GitHub issues, insert content from your YouTube channel, find the right gif for this paragraph) and it adds up to a much more centralized writing experience for modern work-related content creation.
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#19"Hi! It looks like you're trying to recycle an idea from the late 90's into yet another SaaS product. Would you like to (a) post to HN a bloated landing page with almost no details, (b) collect email addresses, or (c) both?"
What is the idea? I can't tell from reading the link. I'm surprised this managed to make it to the front page.
Clippy? Remember Clippy? "Hi, it looks like you're trying to write a letter."