Show HN: I made a writing tool that asks questions like Socrates

Clever idea. I like the concept, and think it could be a great product.

But your site gives me a bad vibe:

1) I feel like the term, "Socratic method" is fairly well understood. Am I wrong? Because trying to rephrase it feels like you are dumbing down your marketing for an audience that... well, isn't me. Which is fine if I'm an outlier. I just thought it was a common term.

2) Either let people try it, or make them create an account. Having a page that looks like it is going to let you try it, lets you enter a subject, and then prompts you to login feels worse than just forcing a login right away. (Which is also a problem, but at least doesn't feel like you are trying to trick us.)

Do I need to make an account to test this? It seems to let me get to the topic prompt without logging in and then insists on a log in.

Your product seems nice. I have nothing to take away from it.

However, consider what codingdave have told you about the Socratic questions. The ones in the video are no doubt helpful for someone trying to find their way on a text. But they are not Socratic questions.

Good luck for your project.

This is so cool. I'm a Hyperwrite subscriber and would absolutely consider switching to Scraft.ai if it works as well as I'm imagining. Although GPT-3 can be a powerful ally when writing emails, proposals, documents, etc., on tight deadlines, for me personally, I find it's dreadfully easy to get "stuck" in vicious feedback loops as a result of the language model's tendency to expand rather than react. A great editor will push you to clarify sentences that are vague, improve arguments that are muddled, and (where I'm thinking, Scraft.ai might really shine) is a master of dialectic, poking and prodding at the logical substance of each draft and helping you to realize more clearly at each step of this iterative process what, exactly, it is that you want to say.

I look forward to giving this a shot! It's funny, I'll sometimes spark up a conversation with Socrates in the GPT-3 sandbox if I'm ever looking for a spirited adversary to pick apart an argument before I make it. Explaining one's thoughts to an imaginary interlocutor not only makes writing more fun -- joyful, even -- but in my experience, helps me produce a higher quality product vs. simply asking "mediocre Westworld fascimile of myself, fine-tuned on a corpus of mundane office emails I wrote" to finish my sentences for me.

When it generates sentences like (from the video) 'according to the research in 2012' and 'MIT and Harvard developed Tissue-Bio', is that (intended to be) accurate? Or is that to be taken as suggested boilerplate for real facts to be replaced there?

I think this is an amazing tool and implementation, particularly if it is geared toward helping the author understand the issue efficiently.

I would recommend a better voice-over for the video, it is by far the limiting factor of the presentation.

Finally, I would recommend adding more plagiarism controls to the tool. People are going to be so tempted to just paste in what the AI summarizes without understanding or even reading it in depth.

I can't sign-up because my google account doesn't have a last name.

Django error: Field last_name cannot be blank

The demo video was cool. I wish the www/internet existed when I was in high school and this tool would have been a killer app for writing student essays / reports.

Google sign in only? Not a fan, but seems like an interesting idea.

I like the idea of this if I am writing an article - I gave this (pretty) webpage only about 17 seconds of time to search for if it had anything for fiction writers - it doesn't appear to, which is fine, but might be worth nothing this is for non-fiction.

Sounds like a fun idea! Are you planning to monetise this in some way?

Nice!

Did you make the 3d model on the landing page yourself? Any tutorials on that maybe?

I’m beginning to hate the same Tailwind UI on every SaaS website. Especially since people are too lazy to even change the main color.

Is this just a wrapper around GPT-3?

Why?

I like the idea, but having to log in with Google made me pause, and then I closed the page.

I am OK to register, even if I think that a quick demo should be possible without this step.

But I won't register with Google or Facebook or anything except an email.

- No need to sign up to try it

- I will never sign up with my Google account

Is there a way to create account / login without Google account?