Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by awestroke on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:58PM
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Literally nobody installs addons for word or Google apps. Nobody cares about WordPress. You can't have plugins for social networks, and this is for long form text anyway. Bad ideas all around
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by whatch on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:15PM
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Didn't try it, but isn't it how Grammarly works? Just an addon for any input field
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by evrydayhustling on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:16PM
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This. Should be a browser plugin for maximum deployment impact.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by bloppe on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:15PM
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I think a docs plugin would be pretty sweet. Would install. It's probably not the kind of thing you can start a company around, though. More like a side project.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by jaapbadlands on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:40PM
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Google will soon be adding this sort of stuff directly to their office tools anyway, just like Microsoft is.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by esafak on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:27PM
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And companies even block them for security.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by CharlesW on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:36PM
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> Nobody cares about WordPress.
29.41% of the world's top 10K websites use WordPress. 29.65% of the world's top 100K websites use WordPress. I wish nobody cared about me like that.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by awestroke on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:44AM
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And nobody cares about those statistics too
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by alvah on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:11AM
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"Nobody cares about WordPress"
Are you sure about this?
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by awestroke on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:43AM
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Yes
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by chaxor on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:07PM
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This is HN... People enjoy not using Microsoft or Google products. Do it on neovim and people will be happy.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by sakras on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:47PM
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> Things are going to get boring, old and non-original very quickly.
I’d say they already have. I have half a mind to write a HN front end that filters out any posts with the phrases “GPT”, “LLM”, and “AI”.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by mixmixmix on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:40PM
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I'll use it more than this type or whatever document thingie
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by sakras on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:56PM
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I went ahead and threw one together: https://save-buffer.github.io/no_ai/
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by remkop22 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:33PM
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I would gladly use it
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by jstummbillig on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:04PM
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Nice. I do hope you'll let GPT4 do that for you.
Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
by corwinstephen on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:27PM
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Agree. The AI stuff is pure novelty, I’m skeptical it’s going to be truly adopted in its current form in any substantial way.
1. This should've been an addon/plugin for the top-5 most used text editors (Word, Google Docs), potentially also a plugin for WordPress/Drupal/Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, instead of a standalone text editor that nobody's going to download.
2. Looks like every YC startup now is going to be a thin wrapper around OpenAI's GPT endpoints. "Dump your ideas into this textbox and let the magical black box add some fluff". Things are going to get boring, old and non-original very quickly.