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Appreciate it!

Agree on each suggestions. I’m especially excited about building #2, which I think is a fairly subtle, hard problem to solve.

Appreciate the feedback on pricing! Will keep this mind as I imagine we'll offer a wider range of options in the future.

Yes! We do support basic image blocks today, but the idea is that we’ll integrate generative media types as new image/video/audio models become more reliable & stable.

Good to know, thanks!

Unfortunately, everything but the AI works offline. Though, maybe that's a feature if you're planning a more mellow retreat :)

That's fair! At a minimum, we probably should start saying "Type.ai" more often than just "Type."

Haha tough crowd. (Yes)

We knew we wanted it and we figured there are more people like us out there.

Agreed! We’ve begun exploring some ways to do that.

Yep, we’ve acquired hundreds of paying customers since launching about a month ago. And we don’t see the market here as “people who hire writers” — we see it as “people who must write to get paid.”

No worries! I really appreciate you giving it a closer look, and I’m glad our general philosophy seems to resonate. Please shoot me an email if you ever try it and have any feedback. I’m [Firstname] @ type.ai.

We feel similarly. There are a lot of products in this space. Very few are enjoyable to use, though.

We think about that a lot! I think this reply from my co-founder summarizes our answer well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35442714

The honest answer is that it'll be hard for us to answer that until we try out what they've built!

We thought it was pretty descriptive and at least as imaginative as "Word" or "Docs." But we're open to suggestions!

Because we're still figuring it out and it takes a while to build new stuff (not a great answer, I know - but it's the honest one)

Thanks!

Claude seems to be especially strong with creative writing and writing in a wider breadth of styles, which ends up being really important.

It should support pretty much any language! The commands will attempt to generate text in whatever language is already in the document (though, it's certainly not perfect yet and will sometimes return English no matter what).

Stefan pretty much captured my perspective! I might just add a couple of related things:

We have a subtle but important difference in focus compared to a product like Notion. We're not aiming to build the best knowledge or workplace management product. We're really focused on building something that helps you author high-quality content (usually, that will be shared publicly).

Secondly, IMO the end-state of many of these products won't look like Microsoft Word/Notion + AI. I think entirely new interfaces and workflows will be discovered over the next 2-3 years that wouldn't have been possible without today's LLMs. The one advantage we have is no priors – we can take big swings on "risky" ideas.

Like Stefan said, I know both of those probably still sound a little hand-wavey but it's part of what keeps us motivated to keep building.

To each their own :). I do think it's a big space and plenty of folks will find ChatGPT helpful enough to not warrant a more vertical / specific solution like ours.

Glad you've been enjoying it. I'm continually surprised by how much more I feel I can do working with ChatGPT/AI in a doc editor interface versus exclusively chat (though each have their unique drawbacks).

We will need to develop more sophisticated pricing and monitoring to make sure this doesn't get abused. For now, we haven't noticed any nefarious usage - but that's partially just a function of us just being small / under the radar up until now.

Too much. Mid-five figures

This is something we're very excited about building. We haven't shipped it yet, but we have a pretty clear roadmap to get there. Stay tuned!

Yep! We're definitely not the only show in town. I'd love to know if there are any Lex features you prefer over Type.

Thanks! I do agree with #1, and I think we need to make that clearer in our messaging. For context, I'll re-share one my replies to a related comment:

> The thing that excites me most about generative AI isn't "more," it's better. I often use Type to write satire and now whenever I hit a block, I don't tab over to Twitter – I have Type generate some ideas. Often, I don't use them as-is but they do inspire a new angle I hadn't thought of.

One #2, I think there's some truth to that today. But our belief is that over time, these products will start to evolve into something more advanced and useful. A product like Type, for example, won't really look like Google Docs + AI in 3 years, it will start to feel like a more novel category of tool. We'll see, though!

My co-founder and I both resonate with this and we probably need to make our positioning clearer given that it didn't come through here.

The thing that excites me most about generative AI isn't "more," it's better. I often use Type to write satire and now whenever I hit a block, I don't tab over to Twitter – I have Type generate some ideas. Often, I don't use them as-is but they do inspire a new angle I hadn't thought of.

That said, I can see how we have a lot of work to do making that more clear. And I can certainly see how a product like ours or ChatGPT could be used to produce lots of mediocre writing – which is undesirable.

Appreciate the feedback!

That's definitely fair, we do think we'll eventually need to develop a more sophisticated pricing strategy & usage limits

Appreciate it, would welcome your feedback after you've given it a spin. You can email me anytime at [first name] at type.ai.