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I've built a service that lets your create an online blog from your paper journal. I use it daily, and I find I'm a lot more consistent with journaling knowing others are reading my writing. I also write way more without all the tech distractions:

https://paperwebsite.com

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Jeff Bridges, the actor, has taken this to the next level:

https://jeffbridges.com/latest

All I can think is how inefficient it is to download text as a JPG. It would be cool if he first converted it to SVG.

For example this image is 344KB: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0dbd41d1d25c...

Using a basic online JPG->SVG converter ( https://tracesvg.com/uploads/1631702350_latest_part_1B_1.jpg... ) it goes to around 90KB (~4x smaller) and it should be a lot smaller with some basic curve optimizations.

Perhaps that’s the next cool idea for a business?

While not wanting to sound too negative in this response, I didn’t even consider the file size, but rather the creative possibilities that opens up when one successfully breaks with an otherwise common format and merges it with a new one.

That's very cool - nice to hear his cancer is in remission.

Wow! This is so cool. Jeff Bridges always surprises me. He's a photographer as well, and quite good.

It seems original - blogging from handwritten notes. My first thought was - how accurate is it? i.e. if I'm to blog-post from a note, automagically, I'd love to have the confidence that there are not typos/OCR-issues.

p.s. I've submitted it to SaaSHub as well https://www.saashub.com/paper-website

Thanks for submitting it! It's free to try out, so throw your handwriting at it and see. I've leveraged GPT3 so it automagically fixes errors that OCR produces.

This is really cool! I much prefer writing in longhand (I do for all my fiction writing). However my handwriting is absolutely awful. Maybe I need to try this out and see how it fares -- all the examples on the front page have nice neat handwriting :)

I've tested it with some pretty "awful" handwriting examples from /r/handwriting and it's surprisingly good (think tiny doctor scribbles). Have a go and let me know what you think, it's totally free to try.

This is amazing. Do you plan to support other languages than English? I would pay for a service that converts my handwritten notes, written in Catalan, to Evernote notes, for my private consumption.

Yeah I'm planning to add more languages in the future - as long as the characters are English-looking (i.e. not Greek, Chinese, Japanese etc.). So I think Catalan should be okay.

Very nicely done landing page.

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