[HN Gopher] Show HN: Lunette - A word processor designed around ...
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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)
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| 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:
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| _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.
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