Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

Post by piker » Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 11:53 PM UTC

treuks wrote: post #60

Hey, this looks to be pretty interesting and I'm excited to see an app made with egui that doesn't look like it uses the default theme! I have no use for this software personally but I feel like it's pretty important for me to point out the fact that in your license agreement you misspelled the name of the company as Tritium Legal Technlogies (Technl instead of Technol). Cheers on your product. From the small showcas…

Post by brundolf » Fri, Jun 13, 2025, 12:09 AM UTC

singleshot_ wrote: post #57

brundolf wrote: post #29

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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 transit…

No attorney who is flummoxed by this UX is going to touch an AI product in any meaningful way. Making legal tools for lawyers who would otherwise be using cuneiform tablets or the dictation pool is a waste of conversation. Looking similar to the tools a seventy five year old lawyer uses is like making an F1 car that would look familiar to Jackie Stewart: yeah, it’d probably help him adapt, but not enough to be compet…

Post by piker » Fri, Jun 13, 2025, 12:23 AM UTC

kibibu wrote: post #64

Could this also be used as a user-facing tool? e.g. to understand Terms of Use, finance and purchase agreements, that sort of thing?

Post by tonyhart7 » Fri, Jun 13, 2025, 1:18 AM UTC

piker wrote: post #3

jenadine wrote: post #2

Really cool to see a native app instead of another Electron or browser-based tool. I'm curious what was your experience like building this in Rust? Also, how did you find working with egui, what made you choose egui over other UI frameworks?

Agreed! I don't think lawyers would have accepted an Electron alternative to super fast Word. Rust gives the raw speed and safety necessary to compete. It's my first Rust project, and I've found Rust to be amazing once you cross over the learning hurdle. The biggest issue was of course the borrow checker, but for a project like this where you aren't really iterating much on the design (as opposed to say a game dev),…

Post by NooneAtAll3 » Fri, Jun 13, 2025, 1:38 AM UTC

brundolf wrote: post #29

piker wrote: post #24

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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 transit…