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topaztee

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building www.vespper.com

Tools to allow AI agents to edit microsoft word documents.

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topaztee··on Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
We're built for enterprise customers, not personal use.
topaztee··on Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP
sign up for free to try: https://app.vespper.com/
topaztee··on Show HN: Vespper (YC F24) – Docx MCP
Free to try. Create your account now at https://app.vespper.com/
topaztee··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
i bought a pair of new balances wide shoes and wont be going back to nike
topaztee··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
spinning up an entire copy of libreoffice sounds super heavy?, if someone here is actually using chatgpt to edit docx documents then they can feel free to use us. vespper.com
topaztee··on Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
where are you hosting it?
topaztee··on Show HN: Language Model Builder (an app to learn about and build models)
this is dope.

Some feedback:

- while I am going through the chapters i keep trying to highlight certain sentences so i could bookmark them for later, itd also be great to do cmd+f to search keywords

- in chapter 1, the "under the hood" link crashes the app

topaztee··on Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)
this is cool. I'm curious how many tokens ($) it cost you to build?

i'm also building in this space (an MCP for agents to manipulate docx)

topaztee··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
currently working on an MCP for agents to manipulate docx files. https://vespper.com

the other day I also vibe-coded a recreation of digglabs , its shows HN, reddit ect using different visualisations

https://topaztee.com/digglabs

topaztee··on Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
dang?
topaztee··on Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens
nice to see others try to solve a problem we also experienced.

I'm also working on letting agents read/edit word docs but exposing it as a simple MCP

www.vespper.com

topaztee··on OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files
cool,

im working on something similar. A fine-tuned model for agents to interact with docx over MCP. they wont have to deal with OOXML.

we have a waiting list for beta-users: www.vespper.com

topaztee··on OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files
cool,

im working on something similar. A fine-tuned model for agents to interact with docx over MCP. they wont have to deal with OOXML vespper.com

topaztee··on Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?
sure but OOXML is on avg 12x~ larger than markdown so you'll burn a ton of tokens. I second using pandoc but depends on why you need it to be in markdown in the first place?

(source - I'm working on a docx MCP that abstracts OOXML complexity away from LLMs entirely)

topaztee··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
an MCP for agents to manipulate docx files (microsoft words files). It abstracts away all the OOXML for the agent

vespper.com

topaztee··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
created a chrome extension to sync linkedin messages to my crm (pipedrive) rather than being charged 30$ a month

- https://www.yourfriendly.ai/. a desktop pet that lets me have an ai chatbox readily available

topaztee··on Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV
lots of channels arent available in my region, it would be cool to add a vpn on top of this so they wont be blocked
topaztee··on GitHub Stacked PRs
how is this different than viewing a PR one commit at a time?
topaztee··on Show HN: PlaceboGPT – 7,666-parameter medical AI with one answer for everything
every answer "Stay hydrated, get adequate rest, and if symptoms persist, consult a healthcare professional.
topaztee··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
My friend and I have been working on https://www.vespper.com its essentially an ai-native word editor for long-form content.

it comes with a suite of tools (multi-agent tools to do search over many docs, RAG out of the box, prompt generation per section to reduce context drift, granular AI steerability, structured block generations for 100+ page reports ect.)

topaztee··on Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
neat!
topaztee··on Show HN: Aviation Compliance Checker – Automated FAA Compliance for GitHub
are aviation teams using github?
topaztee··on 2025: The Year in LLMs
`Also most tools are completely useless at modifying structured documents`

we built a tool for this for the life science space and are opening it up to the general public very soon. Email me I can give you access (topaz at vespper dot com)

topaztee··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
11 years here (more without a user), HN has consistently been the top sites i visit everyday.

thanks all and happy thanksgiving!

topaztee··on Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app
why is it one of the sloggiest businesses?
topaztee··on What I tell people new to on-call
would you atleast be compensated for those on-call shifts?
topaztee··on Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less
co-founder of merlinn here: https://merlinn.co | https://github.com/merlinn-co/merlinn We're also building a tool in the same space with the option of choosing your own model (private llms) + we're open source with a multitude of integrations.

good to see more options in this space! especially OS. I think de-noising is a good feature given alert fatigue is one of the repeating complaints of on-callers.

topaztee··on Developing Inside a Container (2022)
is this like rookout?
topaztee··on Ask HN: If you could ask an IC from another company anything what would you ask?
setup a form for anyone interested in an interview https://tally.so/r/3NAPbp or to subscribe to the blog: https://powerplaybook.substack.com/
topaztee··on Ask HN: If you could ask an IC from another company anything what would you ask?
i love that
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