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Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by jagged-chisel »

passivegains wrote: post #70
dostick wrote: post #68

It looks like code editor with symbol references. Is that all the functionality? I expected document to be tied to some law (or part of) and use outline of that law as outline for document, and then populating document to cover all the aspects of selected law, with AI, and indicating which generated parts were reviewed by human.

and then populating document to cover all the aspects of selected law I'm fairly certain lawyers exist specifically because this is infeasible.

Not only that but: which subsection of law is specific to this case? What additional documentary requirements come with citing that law? What’s the presentation strategy for the target opponent/lawyer/court?

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by jagged-chisel »

rubyfan wrote: post #51

I’ve been dreaming of a better contract writing tool for a while now. I’m not a lawyer but I draft insurance contracts and work with reviewing lawyers closely. As a former software developer I miss version control, partial includes, conditional logic, etc. I am shocked at how poorly supported the business world is by the ubiquity of MS Word. I’ve been experimenting with Typst now for some time and it has a lot of wha…

Ah, a kindred spirit. I have been drafting part time for a local firm, and I feel like i’m on the cusp of a brilliant concept for pulling documents together, presenting case status to the lead lawyer … but I don’t have the time to coalesce my inklings into a tool.

I think we technical folk need to build technical tools for us to use while we explore the space and iterate on something that the normies will accept.

If you find anyone willing to invest money so a team can spend time on this, please let me know! :-)

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by mdaniel »

tough wrote: post #34
yauneyz wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

care to link to repo? alwayss good to have one of these at hand

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js#readme (Apache 2)

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by b0a04gl »

> "Finally got sick of diffing contracts in Word and emailing PDFs back and forth"

this is the actual iceberg. forget ai clause generators and buzzwords, 99 percent of the pain is version chaos. localfirst editor is cool and imagine pairing that with proper gitstyle branching across teams. redlines you can merge without manually eyeball.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by 8s2ngy »

Congratulations on the release! I don’t have much to add, but I wanted to express how much I love hearing about people with no formal software background who identify problems in their daily lives, plan, build, and release software to address them. Best of luck!

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by gjayakrishnan »

rubyfan wrote: post #51

I’ve been dreaming of a better contract writing tool for a while now. I’m not a lawyer but I draft insurance contracts and work with reviewing lawyers closely. As a former software developer I miss version control, partial includes, conditional logic, etc. I am shocked at how poorly supported the business world is by the ubiquity of MS Word. I’ve been experimenting with Typst now for some time and it has a lot of wha…

I’m part of the team behind Zoho Contracts, focused on simplifying how businesses manage contracts across their lifecycle — from authoring, approvals, negotiation, and signing to renewals, amendments, compliance, with comprehensive analytics built in.

Our document editor is powered by Zoho Writer, offering all the capabilities of a word processor along with versioning, document assembly, and automation features. On top of this, we’ve built structured version control, clause-level change tracking, and workflow-integrated collaboration. This enables legal and business teams to work together seamlessly without relying on external editors or juggling redlined Word files over email.

Just sharing in case anyone else here is tackling similar problems or interested in the space.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Post by piker »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #67
piker wrote: post #3

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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),…

why you choose egui or you just choose based on what you commonly used??

I had been messing around with Imgui relatively recently and enjoyed the simplicity. Prior to that I was doing stuff with React which is kind of the polar opposite and found that to be super laborious. So when I saw egui, I jumped at the chance.
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