Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything

After watching a bunch of people use the live chat, I am not discouraged by live chat anymore.

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.

Intriguing.

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".

I love this product immediately after typing something in it. For the foreseeable future, I'll be using it as my first choice when I want to jot down anything.

I've used products like Evernote and Notion before. Sometimes I just want to write down a fleeting idea, but other products are becoming increasingly cumbersome and slow to launch.

However, if I'm going to subscribe a plan for it, I'd like some extra features, such as direct voice recording then speech to text or the ability to sketch directly on my phone.

Example of the real-real-time chat: https://kraa.io/hackernews

Your approach looks promising. One question: how do you handle conflict resolution at scale? ProseMirror's steps model helps, but once you mix in multiple cursors, mobile clients, and permission controls, things get complicated fast. If you've built extra abstractions or a custom syncing layer on top of ProseMirror, I'd be very interested in how you approached it.

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.

This is intriguing, but honestly the first thought that came to my mind reading the home page was “jack of all trades, master of none”.

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!

i don't get it. if i need to write a document, i'll still use google docs. if i want to write a blogpost, i'll use a blog hosting platform. if I want a wiki, i'll use a wiki platform

> It's not designed to be this or that

well then why am i using it

I love it. What little I tried it. First homepage is actually clear and obvious.

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?

99% marketing 1% product Sorry…

This is damn awesome!

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.

On the home page the "News article" and the "Food recipe" samples point to the same page.

Congrats! This was something I have not seen before. People loved it, apparently. Real time chat makes it so even with few users, there is so much happening. Unfortunately moderation could be a problem. Good luck with it. Gos bless you, my morning is a little bit happier now

- Click "Start Writing"

- 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.

Without sounding negative, i see a lot of bells and whistles

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

Loads slow on my gigabit fiber connection. But it looks nice

Apparently, Notion, Obsidian, Google Docs, Word, Notes, Reminders, Evernote, Bear, Typora, iA Writer, Ulysses, Standard Notes, Simplenote, Roam, LogSeq, Craft, Vim, Emacs and the hundreds other editors launched this week alone just weren't doing it. They were too cluttered. Too focused. Too specific in their use cases. Not online. Too offline.

Pretty neat, good job! It doesn't seem to support Setext headings though unfortunately.

If I have to create an a/c to find out the price, then no.

Beautiful. Is it E2E encrypted?

The Food Recipe example link doesn't go to a food recipe :-(

My ideal writing experience is one where there is nothing in the way of writing.

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!

You are trying to make emacs?

nice work. i'm curious, what's the architecture for authorization?

self hosting when?

[dead]

[dead]

[dead]