On: Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document edi...

[csmpltn]

Two comments:

1. This should've been an addon/plugin for the top-5 most used text editors (Word, Google Docs), potentially also a plugin for WordPress/Drupal/Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, instead of a standalone text editor that nobody's going to download.

2. Looks like every YC startup now is going to be a thin wrapper around OpenAI's GPT endpoints. "Dump your ideas into this textbox and let the magical black box add some fluff". Things are going to get boring, old and non-original very quickly.

[awestroke → csmpltn]

Literally nobody installs addons for word or Google apps. Nobody cares about WordPress. You can't have plugins for social networks, and this is for long form text anyway. Bad ideas all around

[whatch → awestroke]

Didn't try it, but isn't it how Grammarly works? Just an addon for any input field

[evrydayhustling → whatch]

This. Should be a browser plugin for maximum deployment impact.

[bloppe → awestroke]

I think a docs plugin would be pretty sweet. Would install. It's probably not the kind of thing you can start a company around, though. More like a side project.

[jaapbadlands → bloppe]

Google will soon be adding this sort of stuff directly to their office tools anyway, just like Microsoft is.

[CharlesW → awestroke]

> Nobody cares about WordPress.

29.41% of the world's top 10K websites use WordPress. 29.65% of the world's top 100K websites use WordPress. I wish nobody cared about me like that.

[awestroke → CharlesW]

And nobody cares about those statistics too

[alvah → awestroke]

"Nobody cares about WordPress"

Are you sure about this?

[awestroke → alvah]

Yes

[esafak → awestroke]

And companies even block them for security.

[sakras → csmpltn]

> Things are going to get boring, old and non-original very quickly.

I’d say they already have. I have half a mind to write a HN front end that filters out any posts with the phrases “GPT”, “LLM”, and “AI”.

[jstummbillig → sakras]

Nice. I do hope you'll let GPT4 do that for you.

[mixmixmix → sakras]

I'll use it more than this type or whatever document thingie

[sakras → mixmixmix]

I went ahead and threw one together: https://save-buffer.github.io/no_ai/

[remkop22 → sakras]

I would gladly use it

[corwinstephen → csmpltn]

Agree. The AI stuff is pure novelty, I’m skeptical it’s going to be truly adopted in its current form in any substantial way.

[chaxor → csmpltn]

This is HN... People enjoy not using Microsoft or Google products. Do it on neovim and people will be happy.