![]() ![]() Soaking up solid takes (and yes, they're hard to sort from the chaff, another characteristic of major stories) does seem worthwhile. Exceptions include fad/fashion, political, and some investment hype-cycles.Įven if the current OpenAI / LLM fuss is a false alarm / limited breakthrough, it's breathtaking enough as it stands and as has already been demonstrated to take very seriously. I consider this a strong indicator that there is in fact a significant story developing, and whilst AI has certainly presented us with sixty or seventy years of false starts, the prospect and impacts of fast take-off make it the sort of thing that 1) is hard to judge either in advance or as it's happening and 2) would absolutely change the world. One of the first times I recall hearing someone gripe about the frequency with which a topic was appearing in news was during the Eurocrisis, when a news presenter quipped about the Greek financial situation being in the news rundown once again.ĩ/11, the 2nd US-Iraq Gulf War, the 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis, and Covid-19 come to mind. However, Demo Day starts tomorrow, so you have two more threads to endure today (the other one being ) and Launch HN season should simmer down after that. The Launch HN posts are a special case because that's one of the things HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it and as you can imagine, there are a ton of AI related startups wanting to launch right now. I know that many are still making it through though. If it helps at all, we've downweighted a ton of AI-related posts that don't really contain new information. It's a tough one because follow-ups and repetition aren't in the spirit of HN (it's hard to stay interested under a repetitive barrage), but significant new information is, and there has been a ton of that too. We'd love your feedback on what feels helpful and what feels confusing or missing. If you'd like some additional free credits, please just drop us a note at and we'll refill your free credits. We think Type feels pretty different from other AI writing tools that produce fairly shallow content, but would love to get your honest feedback on whether we're hitting the mark.Įach account comes with a free allocation of AI commands, after which you can activate a paid plan for unlimited AI usage (you can still create and access unlimited docs on the free plan). If you try it out at, we’d love to hear what you think. We designed Type to be most useful for longer-form writing, so we encourage you to try it out in the context of something like an essay or a technical tutorial. This means most interactions (search, loading documents, etc.) are instant (2) Mobile support as installable PWA (3) Keyboard shortcuts for the most useful commands (4) Markdown copy/paste support. We’ve built some editor features that aren’t AI-specific but which we think make for an enjoyable authoring experience: (1) Type is built from the ground up to be offline-first. We’ve also built a "what to write about next" feature in the document sidebar that offers suggestions on ideas you may consider adding to your document. Once you’re satisfied with what Type has generated, you can drag and insert the block anywhere in your document (as seen in the demo video above). So if you're writing an introductory essay about machine learning, for example, you can use Type's chat feature to generate and refine equations and code blocks you'd like to include in your document. Type supports multiple rich block types, including code and math and our commands are able to both interpret and output these block types. “Write paragraph”) and attempt to understand the context of your document. Most of our commands are grounded in familiar writing primitives (ex. So we’re building a user-friendly document editor that puts the author front and center.Īs you write in Type, you can press cmd+k to summon simple AI commands. ![]() We think of great writing as the product of clear thinking, which requires a lot of time tinkering with and refining ideas. We don't think that's the optimal way to write. ![]() There are a lot of AI writing products out now, but we've found that most of them treat writing like a one-shot activity that should be delegated to AI. It's similar to Notion, but focused on building a solid authoring experience.Īnd here’s a demo that includes math and code blocks: We're building an AI-first document editor that helps you write. Hi HN, we're Stew and Stefan from Type ( ). ![]()
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