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Show HN: Finally launched my side project, Write.app

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2 pointsbpatrianakos6 comments

Hi all. Creator of this thing here. I'm about to head out to catch a train home from work but before I do I just want to pop in here and say any feedback is appreciated. I've been working on this for about 6 months now and I've torn it apart and rewritten/redesigned large chunks of this more times than you can imagine. So though I know it's quite simple and still has many flaws, this is a labor of love for me. I hope others find it as useful as I do. The whole idea is to have a place to store your writing that's not meant for the public the majority of the time while not being all skeuomorphic (as in "It's just like a paper journal... except online and cheesy!") and just generally being a place for self-expression.

My last redesign of it took ("Stole" maybe?) a lot of ideas from the Ghost Wordpress fork idea that was posted here a few weeks ago.

Anyway, I'm off to catch my train but I'll be back to see if anyone comments or cares. If you find bugs, please let me know (either here or my email is in my profile). If you find a security hole, do me a favor and email it to me privately so I can get a chance to fix it. I don't want to be that guy who gets called out on a security issue in public. But there shouldn't be anything major if anything at all.

Thanks.

1) I logged out, then logged back in. It loaded https://writeapp.me/login/validate, a blank page and did nothing else.

2) In my browser (Chrome), when I try to create a new notebook, nothing happens if I click " New Notebook" - it only works when I click the "+" button itself.

3) When, I click on the "Options" icon on the bottom of the writing page, it doesn't indicate that anything happened - I just saw a flash of text. I only realized that an "Options" pane had opened when I tried scrolling even further down the writing page. Perhaps have it slide up, or to the side from the left?

Thank you for telling me. I'll address these in order:

1. I'm not sure offhand what's going on there. I'll have a look and see what I can find. Sorry I can't be more helpful with an explanation on this one.

2. Right now, the new notebook link will only work if you've written at least one note. It's something I knew about but left it for later anyway. I've been sitting on this for six months and I had to open it up or dump it. This will be number two on my list of things to fix.

3. Good ideas. I'm thinking I'll have the page scroll down with the options pane, use a modal window, or have it slide from the sides like you say.

On another note, I know this isn't totally obvious or really publicized but you can make notes public and visit them at https://writeapp.me/your-username (I plan to add support for custom subdomains at some point). I published a short list of known bugs this morning on the official Write.app space which is here: https://writeapp.me/writeapp

You know what, passwords are case sensitive and I have done an awful job with error messages. That may have been the problem logging back in but I don't have access to anyone's passwords so I'm not sure if that applies to you.

Design looks great. Only thing is that its forgetting me every time i visit the main page. Im logged in, then i click the logo on the far left, im back on the main page and no longer logged in.

It's not forgetting you exactly but it is failing to redirect you to your account area. That's an obvious oversight. Sorry about that. I'll fix that ASAP. In the meantime (meantime being the next couple of hours as I'm on my way home from work) you can go to writeapp.me/write and you'll be in your account again, just as you left it. Currently, it'll only remember you for 2 hours. I didn't want to make it indefinite in case people log in on a public computer or something. Is that something I should change?

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