Hey guys - I really appreciate the love from Hacker News. It's a real honor to get all of these votes and comments. If you like the idea and aren't a lawyer but want to help the project move forward, please suggest Tritium to the corporate lawyers you know.
Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#22Super interesting. Working in consulting, often with corporate lawyers. Will check it out.
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#23Feedback: the UI feels like a direct reference to VSCode, which is familiar to software developers, but not to lawyers. If you're hoping this will be adopted by lawyers, I would focus on making the UX familiar to them. Look at software that they already use, and mimic those idioms insomuch as it makes sense to do so. I would also have the base web domain link to a normal home/info page, not to the demo directly. And maybe prefill the demo with some actual content (documents/etc) so people can really see what it does and how
Good luck!
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#24Feedback: the UI feels like a direct reference to VSCode, which is familiar to software developers, but not to lawyers. If you're hoping this will be adopted by lawyers, I would focus on making the UX familiar to them . Look at software that they already use, and mimic those idioms insomuch as it makes sense to do so. I would also have the base web domain link to a normal home/info page, not to the demo directly. And…
Great feedback; and I do agree. The HN link goes to the app itself because we're impatient, but there is an actual landing page most visitors hit.
I've gone back and forth on the UX idea, and while I do agree, it's important that Tritium selects for users that are going to be able to quickly adopt the newer concepts. Just simply presenting a "better Word" isn't really going to move the needle. It's really a shift in expectations. That said, I have recently backed off defaulting to dark mode to make it feel slightly more familiar.
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#25minor nit: cmd+z is ctrl+z in macos, which felt counter-intuitive on an editor
IANAL: idk if lawyers dont do pdfs but tried some research papers and PDF rendering could use some love (MacOS)
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#26Say you were going to cold email a lawyer to pitch them to use this, what would you write?
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#27minor nit: cmd+z is ctrl+z in macos, which felt counter-intuitive on an editor IANAL: idk if lawyers dont do pdfs but tried some research papers and PDF rendering could use some love (MacOS)
Noted, and to be fixed. Thank you
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#28minor nit: cmd+z is ctrl+z in macos, which felt counter-intuitive on an editor IANAL: idk if lawyers dont do pdfs but tried some research papers and PDF rendering could use some love (MacOS)
Noted, and to be fixed. Thank you
I had edited prior message but would be great if supported PDF rendering as good as docx! (for research mostly, not a lawyer)
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#29Feedback: the UI feels like a direct reference to VSCode, which is familiar to software developers, but not to lawyers. If you're hoping this will be adopted by lawyers, I would focus on making the UX familiar to them . Look at software that they already use, and mimic those idioms insomuch as it makes sense to do so. I would also have the base web domain link to a normal home/info page, not to the demo directly. And…
Great feedback; and I do agree. The HN link goes to the app itself because we're impatient, but there is an actual landing page most visitors hit. I've gone back and forth on the UX idea, and while I do agree, it's important that Tritium selects for users that are going to be able to quickly adopt the newer concepts. Just simply presenting a "better Word" isn't really going to move the needle. It's really a shift in…
I think software people tend to underestimate the value of superficial familiarity. By all means, adhere to your new concepts and mental model. But even things like coloring, placement of the menu bar, the icons that you use, the organization of the UI, etc can go a really long way
Think about programming languages- ones that introduce radical new concepts may still employ familiar syntax/naming to smooth the transition for newcomers. Rust mimicked C++, TypeScript extended JS, etc. These languages were made to introduce powerful new ways of thinking about code, but by appearing as similar as possible to what devs already knew, they freed up more brain cycles for people trying to adopt them. They didn't muddy their concept-space for the sake of familiarity, but they didn't introduce any more unfamiliarity than they actually needed to for the benefits they wanted to give
Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Noted, and to be fixed. Thank you
I had edited prior message but would be great if supported PDF rendering as good as docx! (for research mostly, not a lawyer)
If this is Electron, try pdf.js - really good rendering, you can create a text layer (for text selection, etc). Probably the best result per effort you can get