levmiseri

A small idea that has been surprisingly useful for me already. I tried to write without spaces for a day - hooking all my writings to this system - and it made me measurably faster by the end of it. It takes getting used to... and unused to. I'm still not sure if this has some merit, or if it's just a fun experiment.

As described in the blog post – e.g. image via a camera feed.

Thanks! Made some updates to it to strengthen the corrections/splits. Should work substantially better now.

I had an idea for a 'write without space, basicallylikethis' and Jev (given how cheap it is) just being asked after every key press where inserting spaces (or making typo correction) would make sense.

The demo is here: https://levmiseri.com/nospace

The real-real-time chat feature: https://kraa.io/hackernews

The real-real-time chat feature: https://kraa.io/hackernews

(FWIW I like the branding. Hugging Face doesn't seem to struggle because of its name either)

> f developers spend only about 15 percent of their time typing in the editor

I think this is missing an important detail. Lots of time was spent on non-coding stuff, because coding used to be more committal and hence expensive. With how quickly one can code up a quick prototype or even production-ready code these days, the code becomes the communication tool as well.

What a cool concept. Never heard of this before, but I’m sure it’d be easy to get used to. Now I want a watch like this.

Thanks, should be fixed now, though there is some deeper performance issue I need to investigate.

They are very nice! I'd love to see them 'in action' – I'd suggest something similar to what is on clocks.dev if you click in the bottom right corner on the 'timeline' feature: https://clocks.dev/clock/824d7b87d123

Added one more with some day/light signaling: https://clocks.dev/clock/ea4059c74748

Tried my best at reproducing it: https://clocks.dev/clock/eee40ea8130b (but feel free to add your own real version of it! Anyone can add a clock via the top right button.

The nice thing is that anyone can easily add such design.

Created a simple 24-hour analogue face just now: https://clocks.dev/clock/c4a0aef0c379

This is very context dependent. It's 'fine' having such attitude when it comes to a hobby project or personal website – not so much for ecommerce site. And imo you are missing the key part of the article – graceful degradation.

Designing for the ideal (or for the <98%) is fine. As long as the experience is gracefully degraded for the rest.

Web-based markdown editor that can handle notes, colab documents, todos, long stories, as well as chats or communities.

https://kraa.io/about

I know that there are already way too many markdown editors out there, but I think Kraa still offers something unique in this space (combination of minimal UI, plentiful features and some unique stuff like real-real-time chat).

Example of how easy it is to create a 'community' on Kraa: https://kraa.io/kraa/trees

Also - no AI integrations whatsoever.

Speaking of game explorations/ideas enabled by LLMs, here is a 'craft anything' sandbox I'm trying to turn into a game: https://asciidia.com

Loving the smoothness of this. One concerning thing is overlapping notes – I don't want to be fucking around with trying to move the canvas just right to read a note under another note and there doesn't seem to be any other simple mechanism to resolve this (especially for larger blocks/images). The 'untangle' feature doesn't really solve this.

You are right, I removed it.

The '... building this for 5 years' definitely resonates. Text editors are a pitfall of hidden complexities!

It looks and feels great, congratulations for getting this out.

This might be too naively non-feature-parity, but in case someone is looking for a European alternative to Notion/Google Docs, we made https://kraa.io/about

That's fair and something I know will is a love/hate kind of thing. I think if you truly experience a conversation in this format, your opinion on the 'sensibility' of this approach would hopefully change, even if it's still something that's not for you.

That being said, we will have a feature soon where you can compose the entire message before sending it (the 'traditional' way).

Much more light-weight UI, no need for accounts, connection with the markdown editor underneath. More details about the product itself are here: https://kraa.io/about

This is reducing the role of Design as some lego-blocks assembling process. And higher quality being seen as adding ‘pizzazz’.

You are right, though. Many products don’t need more than that. But I fear that this will greatly impact design innovation and progress. We might get stuck in the current UI paradigm for a long time.

It's trying to be universal for any writing need, so purposefully not having a specific 'main' use case, but suitable for many – personal notes, blog posts, colab docs, chat, ...

https://kraa.io/about has some more information about the product itself.

Kraa Trees can be used for other non-chat use cases, like listing out chapters of a book or putting relevant documents together. Example: https://kraa.io/kraa/demos

For a loosely similar 'benchmark', I recently tried to test major LLMs on my coding game (models write code controlling their units in a 1v1 RTS) - https://yare.io/ai-arena

This seems to be comparing apples to oranges. The intent of the users inside ChatGPT and on the website would be vastly different. Comparing them doesn't make much sense sans other variables (= better understanding the intent)

For a European alternative to Google Docs / Notion, we made https://kraa.io/about that might work for you if all you need is a simple editor with collab features.

I'm guilty of this as well. https://kraa.io/about has some fade-in animation for the intro text – driven by wanting the initial impression to be focused/minimal and 'unravel' as you go. I take it that most HN folks would vastly prefer to NOT have this?