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New comment by thatxliner in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

thatxliner — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:07:01 +0000

It used to not be a subscription, and like that it would've definitely have been worth the money

Show HN: Quillium, the non-linear writing app

thatxliner — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:02:16 +0000

Public beta lauunch!

I built a SvelteKit + Tauri writing app that treats revision as a first-class concept. You can fork any sentence or passage into branches, switch between versions inline, and keep everything in one document instead of maintaining separate draft files.

It's different from Git in the sense that you can try different combinations of these branches AND that these branches go infinitely nested

The editor component was made with CodeMirror, and I tried really hard with implementing robust data persistence by storing with SQLite.

There's also optional AI feedback if you bring your own API key, but it's not the point of the app (enable it in settings).

Still in beta and rough around the edges. Would love feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613905

Points: 5

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Why Version Control for Writing Should Work Like Git

thatxliner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:30:09 +0000

Article URL: https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/version-control-for-writing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518721

Points: 1

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AI Is Not the Point

thatxliner — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:46:59 +0000

Article URL: https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/ai-is-not-the-point

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498995

Points: 2

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Show HN: Quillium, Git for Writers

thatxliner — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:22:12 +0000

This is a tool which lets you easily manage different versions of ideas, helpful for writing essays.

I've found myself wanting this every single time I go through the drafting process when writing, and I've been frustrated every time I find myself accidentally working on an old draft just because there was a paragraph that I liked better. This solves it.

I hope the community like this as much I enjoyed working on it! Note that it's currently a beta waitlist because there's some bugs with the undo/redo state management and so I want to dogfood it for a bit for reliability.

It says April 2nd, but I may allow earlier beta testers.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483896

Points: 6

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New comment by thatxliner in "The Xclif Manifesto"

thatxliner — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:03:18 +0000

Hello! This is my CLI framework that I made because I thought about the limitations of scalability other big CLIs encounter. When I was building apps with Click, the startup time gets really slow. Additionally, I have not seen any other Python CLI library do this: file-based routing.

Having contributed to some of Poetry's codebase, I realize that this is actually a very scalable pattern. The only issue is that there isn't a library that embraces it.

Finally, I envision a fully-fledged, batteries-included framework that handles everything from verbosity flags to configuration files.

While I had concieved of this idea a long time ago, I had only been able to finish and launch this recently with the help of AI. As you can tell, the documentation is AI-generated. However, that shouldn't detract from the core idea.