There is an obvious abundance of choice when it comes to text editors, but they all seem to be either too simple and minimal, or overly complex, distracting and difficult to use. We are trying to strike the right balance between a 'complete' feature set (with some unique features you won't find anywhere else – e.g. the multi-leaf view or our real-real-time chat), while keeping the UI clutter-free with a strong separation of style from content.

I've submitted Kraa here before and received actionable feedback – hoping for the same with this latest major update to the app.

Some demo examples (no login required):

- Real-real-time Chat: https://kraa.io/hackernews

- Blog article: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary

- Long-form story: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/insidekick

- Magazine: https://kraa.io/weeklyinspiration

No account required to try it out!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477954

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There is an abundance of choice when it comes to text editors, but they all seem to be either too simplistic and minimal, or overly complex, distracting and difficult to use. Kraa is trying to strike the right balance between a 'complete' feature set (with some unique features you won't find anywhere else – e.g. the multi-leaf view or our real-real-time chat), while keeping the UI clutter-free with a strong separation of style from content.

We are a team of three working on the editor for a long time already (before the AI boom), but this is the largest update to it since launch.

Some demo examples (no login required):

- Blog article: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary

- Long-form story: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/insidekick

- Magazine: https://kraa.io/weeklyinspiration

We'd love to hear your feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460337

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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.

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923380

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902640

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

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.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349986

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The main premise is that you can conjure anything and the game will do its best to produce such object with all the functionality and properties that would make sense.

It might look simple at first glance, but the underlying systems are complex. Create dragons you can fly on, spells, weapons, factories, ...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219220

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