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Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

#11

Post by ghayes » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 2:59 AM UTC

justhw wrote: post #5

How do I save what I wrote?

That really bothered me. I understand this is demonstrating a novel UI and user experience, but lack of "save" genuinely ruined my experience.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

#12

Post by ChrisWoodall » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:11 AM UTC

I also made a Text Statistics javascript class based off of Mr. Child's! Any plans on putting your version on GitHub - I'd love to star it and use it to improve the version below.

https://github.com/christopherwoodall/Text-Statistics/blob/m...

as a Chrome addon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reading-level/lgfk...

edit: found it https://github.com/bilalq/Tranquillity-Editor/blob/master/pu...

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

#13

Post by rmzi » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:12 AM UTC

Great job at Hack 'n Jill, Bilal. Looking forward to more cool projects!

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

#14

Post by dangoldin » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:15 AM UTC

rmzi wrote: post #13

Great job at Hack 'n Jill, Bilal. Looking forward to more cool projects!

Yea - great job! Hack 'n Jill was a fun time.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

#15

Post by bilalq » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:21 AM UTC

justhw wrote: post #5

How do I save what I wrote?

This is something we didn't get to at the hackathon. I agree that this is a feature that needs to be there. We plan on implementing a user system where people can save their poems and choose whether they're private or public. We don't really want to add more features than necessary though. Less is more and whatnot.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by Groxx » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:24 AM UTC

Very nice! Inviting and obvious UI, immediate feedback, this is great stuff. Any plans for this project?

And to top it all off, I can't stop reading that placeholder poem in Yoda's voice.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by minikomi » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:26 AM UTC

    Sweaty palmed, I click submit
    and reeled in fatal terror;
    My MVP, I thought I'd shipped...
    Internal Server Error

Edit: This is a wonderful thing. Thank you. Make a (cheap) mobile app with sharing & I'll buy it!

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

#18

Post by dannyobrien » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:26 AM UTC

I'm sure you've thought of it, but one could actually get this to do scansion too -- the CMU dictionary here http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict has stress and syllable breakdowns.

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

#19

Post by bilalq » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:26 AM UTC

ChrisWoodall wrote: post #12

I also made a Text Statistics javascript class based off of Mr. Child's! Any plans on putting your version on GitHub - I'd love to star it and use it to improve the version below. https://github.com/christopherwoodall/Text-Statistics/blob/m... as a Chrome addon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reading-level/lgfk... edit: found it https://github.com/bilalq/Tranquillity-Editor/blob/master/pu...

That's awesome, Chris. Our code base is already on Github: https://github.com/bilalq/Tranquillity-Editor

Re: Show HN: An IDE for poets

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Post by dannyobrien » Tue, Nov 13, 2012, 3:27 AM UTC

I'm sure you've thought of it, but one could actually get this to do scansion too -- the CMU dictionary here http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict has stress and syllable breakdowns.