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Tritium is an IDE for corporate lawyers. Draft Word docs, review PDFs, redline all in a single application. It's written in Rust using a modified version of egui. Immediate mode has some interesting tradeoffs that I'd love to discuss on here. Also the web/desktop dichotomy presents a lot of interesting opportunities and challenges where data governance is concerned. I'd love your thoughts or to share mine!

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I'm not a customer, but having seen the workflows lawyers go through with documents this product would be extremely useful. I suspect your challenge will be that most laywers are likely risk averse, and would hesitate to put any important changes through something that is not well vetted. I wonder if there's a way to combat that by keeping your product compatible with their usual format, therefor making it a less risky product to try?

Great question - it aims for 100% compatibility with MS Word documents. It falls over on the rendering side, but guarantees not to drop data or miss any text. If you see it on your screen, someone using Word will see it too.

Getting it onto the desktop is the big challenge for the moment!

Nice idea! Some possible really good reading here for you: https://substack.com/@jordanbryan - YC 2021 building out “git for lawyers”

Concur with most of that.

I'd recommend a better landing page for mobile when you have time :). The gif is very tiny on a smartphone and takes time to get to the point.

Thanks for the advice!

What experience do you have in law?

I was a special counsel at a funds practice. I began practicing corporate law in 2011. Check it out here: https://tritium.legal/about

Looks great! Well done.

Now my lawyer will be using vscode too, sweet!

Hopefully it will save you some billable hours :)

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