Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything (kraa.io)
There are many editors out there, so one is spoiled for choice, but Kraa's approach is a little different. It's trying to be both a minimal and distraction-free experience while being feature-rich and allowing for tons of use cases.
What Kraa's good for:
- Distraction-free writing & reading (minimal UI, performant, styling logic completely separated from the editing experience)
- Quick sharing of any written text – compared to many other writing tools, your content can be easily shared just by posting a link and giving 'read' or 'edit' access (we also have password-protection)
- Real-time chat / communities – Kraa has some unique features around real-time editing and our Chat widget allows for a frictionless chat experience. No send button.
- Kraa works well on mobile (though dedicated apps are planned)
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Demo examples (all live, no login needed):
Blog article: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary
Long-form story: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/insidekick
Magazine: https://kraa.io/weeklyinspiration
Kraa is built on top of ProseMirror (and TipTap) and Svelte.
You don’t need an account to try Kraa. We’d really appreciate your thoughts and feedback!
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[ 0.33 ms ] story [ 49.5 ms ] threadAnyway, I liked this. Consider making sent messages as immutable, it's very distracting people editing old messages.
- Start typing, nothing happens
- Editor apparently didn't focus, I try clicking anywhere on the page to give text editor focus
- Editor doesn't focus when you click on it?
For being an experience "all about writing", I sure don't understand how to get started? I click in the middle of the page, but nothing is focusing? Using Firefox 145.0.1.
But - the first thing I want to know it "how much" and then shortly after that I want to know "can I run it myself".
Edit: at first I thought it was too damn awesome, but then I noticed that my phone is overheating after just a few minutes watching the live chat.
I actually think one can make it work, one simply needs to account for moderation and flooding upfront.
The first feature you need is a way to instantly ignore people who are ruining the collective experience. I would think when a person is ignored by a certain threshold of people, their content should automatically be moderated.
The second feature that’s needed is some sort of flood protection or detection. If a user is pasting or trying to flood the chat with characters, they should be instantly hidden and their content be subject to moderation. Being able to distinguish between copying and pasting on occasion and flooding goes a long way.
For UX it seems better to only show features when you need it. You're up against a physical notepad.
Maybe I'm not the target audience
> It's not designed to be this or that
well then why am i using it
I was thinking of similar markdown editing experience, so I am happy you did this so I don't have to.
Name is a little bit weird, what is this supposed to mean?
Take it as constructive criticism, but I didn’t learn why should I try over my current tools of choice.
In any case, best of lucks with it!
For me, that means as close to hand-writing a manuscript as possible, without the pain of extended hours of pressing hard with a pen or pencil.
From there, I may want to share my writing, or not. If so, then I want the process of moving what I've written from the initial medium to online and publicly accessible to be as quick and painless as possible.
If not, then... I just want it to be a file. Something I can save, archive, move, or whatever, like any other file.
It sounds like, given my context, Kraa is not designed for me.
I am interested in hearing from people who feel like Kraa solves a problem for them. I'd like to understand the difference in creative environment!
Overall, impressive work - it’s refreshing to see an editor that aims for minimalism without sacrificing collaboration features. Bookmarking this to test on a few writing workflows.