Show HN: Script – A text editor for digitally interconnected documents

It seems like something I'd want, but the site doesn't give enough information about what the product is. It states a few high-level goals, like Office integration, but it doesn't say _how_.

Who is the target customer? Some of the features seem interesting and useful, like domain-specific syntax highlighting, Definition tooltips.

The site talks about accessibiltity and inclusion, but doesn't expand on what that actually entails.

All of the "Explore" links just download the app instead of expanding on the feature.

I mean, this looks like it could be a nifty product, but as others have said, you must be clear about wetting your target audience in the first screen of the page, and then provide details about what are each of the features.

You can't rely on people installing it to understand if it's for them. You got to make them _think_ it's for them first, then they'll download it and take the time to try it.

There are lots of small psychological hurdles to overcome before someone decides to install a piece of software and commit time to trying it. Downloading it going to require me to clean-up the setup file at some point, maybe it's a messy install, and it's going to be a pain to uninstall, maybe it's not really safe or could be a security hazard or mess up with other parts of my system, or it will just crash, maybe it requires libraries or runtimes that I don't have on my machine (jre?), maybe it will require an account, and I'm not ready to create one, maybe it's complex to use and I'm just going to waste time, maybe it's really targetted at lawyers and won't fit my industry, maybe...

[edit]: so I downloaded and ran the setup and Windows Smartscreen barked at me, and now I have to bypass that safety net. I hate Windows Smartscreen and will force through for software I know to be safe (like grafana), but I know nothing of this software, and I'm not sure I should force its installation. A major hurdle. Maybe having a separate page show up when downloading for Windows, explaining Smartcreen could popup and how to bypass it would help non-techie users?

I love to try every authoring platform out there however this one seems to require login even before I can type first word. Would be great to drop that requirement so that one can try the editing experience without a login wall

Exactly. I saw this and my only reaction was “eh, I’d just use Notion”.

Boy oh boy, HN loves their note-taking apps. I guarantee I'd hit the front page by just using the title "Show HN: Markdown note-taking app written in Rust."

More to the point, is there any reason you're hijacking the browser scrollbar (Windows 11, Brave) or is that a bug on my end? And to be completely honest here, the app looks completely uninspiring. It looks clinical (in a bad way) and lacks any sort of identity or playfulness. Also, word salad like "powering truly digital documents in a dedicated project workspace" gives me a ChatGPT vibe. "Truly digital" as opposed to.. "falsely digital?" Come on.

As of 2006 (when I left the legal tech world), the transition to Word was already well underway. Law firms hated it, but like everywhere else it was becoming The Way. And before Word, there were no "obscure" versions of WordPerfect; it was very widely used, in and out of the legal industry.

Everyone loved WordPerfect because of its ability to tune the final output. Formatting requirements for some court filings are very specific. Back in the day, it was like "12 point Courier, double spaced, no more than 50 pages in length" for appellate briefs (that's from memory, may not match the actual situation at the time) and it was important that an electronically transmitted document look alike on every machine, something that's virtually impossible to guarantee with Word.

This was in the day before print-to-PDF drivers were available, and no one was going to buy Adobe Acrobat licenses for every attorney, paralegal, secretary and word processor in the firm. Wordperfect was well-loved for a reason.