[HN Gopher] Show HN: Lunette - A word processor designed around ... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Lunette - A word processor designed around writing, not formatting Author : corwinstephen Score : 18 points Date : 2023-03-25 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (lunette.app) (TXT) w3m dump (lunette.app) | corwinstephen wrote: | BTW ping me for a coupon code to make it free if you want to | actually use it! | tzarko wrote: | How should we get in touch? I'm very curious about this, would | love to get the chance to try it for a while. | jmtucu wrote: | I'll love to use it for my books! | dtagames wrote: | I'm curious but that's not much of an intro/demo. | corwinstephen wrote: | Apologies, I've sort of been struggling with how to present the | concept clearly and concisely. Here's an overview of where the | idea came from: https://lunette.app/about | | Basically, my wife and I both write, and we found ourselves | bouncing around from app to app looking for something that felt | good and like a place we could really be productive and | creative but never found anything that felt quite right, both | in terms of functionality and aesthetics. Products like Medium | are subject to constantly changing business models and | identities. Google Docs is cluttered and uninspiring. Notes | apps probably came the closest... but this big realization was | that writing is a process that's just one of many things you | might do in any of those apps, and there are things that happen | while writing prose that could be augmented if the app were | specifically designed around that use-case. | | As I mentioned in the about page, the first such discovery was | that almost all writers I spoke to were doing the thing where | they come up with ideas spontaneously and usually just type up | those ideas at random places in the document, which makes a | mess of everything. We set out to solve that problem as an MVP, | but the broader goal is to continue to develop the app around | the writer's use-case and make wrangling concepts into prose an | easier process. | Zurrrrr wrote: | This is an interesting app/approach. I solved a similar issue | by switching to LaTeX and TeXStudio. Being able to add any | marker to the nav tree helps me be organized, and I can | easily add in my notes as comments. With a good color scheme, | it becomes very easy to organize and keep notes and encourage | my writing, easily browsable, and can output a beautiful pdf | with one button press. | SCLeo wrote: | > And what do we do with our ideas when they arise? Well, we | scroll to the bottom of the document and jot them down, copy | and paste them, rearrange them, and hope we'll remember to | come back to them. | | I write erotic novels as a hobby. I legit thought no one else | does this (putting random unorganized ideas at the bottom of | the document). I am genuinely pleased to know I am not the | only one. | DoreenMichele wrote: | You should update the About page. Your comment here is a | much, much better explanation of what you are trying to do | and why. | | Tossing out some suggestions: | | Instead of: _Traditional word processors are for formatting | text. Lunette organizes your ideas and supports the writing | process._ | | Try something more like: | | _Lunette: A Word Processor for writers. A space for ideation | and composition, not just text formatting._ | | Write a bio for each of you. Do not link to your twitter | profile and her..whatever that page is. Neither of them says | "We are writers with experience writing." Neither of them | sells the idea that you know what you are doing with this | app. | | For your About page, you should put the stuff about "husband | and wife team ..." at the bottom. Lead with info about _the | app_ , not about the team. | | Rewrite your last paragraph in your comment here to strip out | all the personal stuff and make it more objective: | | _Writers come up with ideas spontaneously and usually just | type up those ideas at random places in the document, which | makes a mess of everything. The MVP seeks to solve that | problem, but the broader goal is to continue to develop the | app around the writer 's use-case and make wrangling concepts | into prose an easier process._ | | Then follow with some of the info found in your second | paragraph above (minus attacks on other products -- and I | suggest you drop talk of "constantly changing business | models" because if this succeeds, you will face similar | challenges): | | _If you find yourself bouncing around from app to app | looking for something that feels good and like a place you | can really be productive and creative but never find anything | that feels quite right, try Lunette. | | Lunette is a marriage of writing-process focused | functionality and clean aesthetics. Writing is a process. | Making notes is just one of many things you might do in an | app and there are things that happen while writing prose that | could be augmented if the app were specifically designed | around that use-case._ | | Then at the bottom close with something about the team. I | would probably leave out the fact that you are "husband and | wife." I would position it more like "Stephen Corwin and | Kristi Grassi are both writers frustrated with their | inability to find an app with the features they need." and | the names should, again, link to a bio on the site that | highlights why you two are qualified to make this app and | make it better than other writing apps. | | You also need some explanation for the screenshot on your | landing page. The screenshot does not tell me what it does. I | have to guess and those guesses are somewhat informed by your | above comment but not by anything actually on the site | itself. | | If it were me, I would likely take the screenshot, stick it | in an editor and circle stuff in red or whatever and then add | notes below it: "The section in the red oval on the right is | blah blah blah." | | Tell me _what_ it does and _why_ this helps me write. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-25 23:00 UTC)