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Re: Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription

#21
"Word wants a subscription. Pages is a lot of app. TextEdit tops out at bold and italic."

No it doesn't? format>font has bold, italic, underline, outline, super/subscript, and more?

It used to have strikethru too, annoyingly now you have to open the fonts window and access it through a dropdown in there instead of a single hotkey. Notes still has a strikethru menu item but the ⌘k hotkey got stolen for "make hyperlink".

Re: Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription

#22

If it's really fully compatible with docx files, I'm very interested in this. No matter the advances Apple makes with the M chips, Office apps are always slow to open. Not to mention the obligatory background services.

If it’s vibe coded, it’ll use one of the OSS libraries for importing word, so the answer is no it isn’t compatible and the website is misleading slop.

Re: Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription

#24
post #23

Why is this flagged?

I flagged it because it looked like a low-effort vibe-coded cash-grab app that doesn’t do anything novel that Pages doesn’t, and the submitter has zero other history (reinforcing it’s a cash-grab).

The OP not responding to any of the claims also reinforces this.

Re: Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription

#25
post #23

Why is this flagged?

I flagged it because it looked like a low-effort vibe-coded cash-grab app that doesn’t do anything novel that Pages doesn’t, and the submitter has zero other history (reinforcing it’s a cash-grab). The OP not responding to any of the claims also reinforces this.

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Re: Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription

#28
a couple years ago i read a blog post about someone talking about how fragmentation in word processors work, explaining that most word processors started as "this software does only what i need, and will not have X feature that Y has because it's annoying/bloated" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

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